An energetic, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual sustained by the creative and expressive arts. With 30 years’ experience in the music industry, engaged in a broad range of activities; from commercial, corporate and independent projects, within mainstream, state, private and health care sectors. Offering a collaborative and well organised approach to work, with a particular interes...
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An energetic, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual sustained by the creative and expressive arts. With 30 years’ experience in the music industry, engaged in a broad range of activities; from commercial, corporate and independent projects, within mainstream, state, private and health care sectors. Offering a collaborative and well organised approach to work, with a particular interest in contemporary and experimental music. Flexible, and well versed in a broad range of styles and genres.

Benedict moves his audience immediately away from the familiarity of merely watching a performance or simply listening to a recording to immersing them totally in a musical experience with no known bounds. He is inspired by artists from a broad spectrum of styles across history and around the globe. He is drawn to the most challenging artists who work at the extremities of art forms and is especially driven by the legacy left by legendary violinist Paganini.

"a World class virtuoso on violin but his recorded material also includes choral, drone, electronic, EDM and minimal techno. It really is an eclectic mix and experimental may be a wild understatement. Some of it is just breathtakingly beautiful. Some of it sounds like an apocalyptic end of the World, space and time." - Dave Claridge, Mains Spike Records (2019)

"album highlight ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’ finds Tamara on acoustic guitar, accompanied just by Benedict’s almost flute-like violin; it’s nothing short of magnificent, a gorgeous slice of gothic folk with a deathly romantic heart." - with Death of the Maiden's, album review, and Oxfordshire song of the year (2019)

"whose electric violin brings the spirit of John Cale to play as his drones hover ominously around the tent as the horizon is sporadically speckled by fingers of lightning." - with August List, Common People Festival review (2018)

"malevolently swirling violin ramping up the intensity as the swell threatens to tip the whole thing into the briney. - with Great Western Tears, Let It Storm single review (2018)

“taking an instrument to its furthest capabilities” - BBC Introducing (2017)

“One of the most carefully constructed musical statements of any Oxford artist in 2017” - Nightshift Magazine

“I am simply amazed yet again by this work... emotionally pulverising” - Diamanda Galás (2015)

“I really love that” - Dave Gilyeat, BBC Radio presenter (2014)

“champion of the electric violin” - Strings magazine (2013)
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