Benji Goldsmith is a composer and songwriter as well as a music director, conductor, arranger, vocalist, and teacher.

Benji’s writing spans genre and form, encompassing concert music, opera, and musical theater, as well as pop and electronic music. His music, shows, and songs have been performed at Ars Nova, Trinity Rep, Barrington Stage Company, the Roy Hart Theatre Center, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, 54 Below, New World Stages, and various other venues in New York and across the country.

Recent Music Direction credits include Radio City Music Hall, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkrantz (dir. Victoria Clark, starring Rebecca Luker), Butterflies (Barrington Stage Company, dir. Graciella Daniele, starring Donna McKechnie), Regretting Almost Everything (Barrington, 54 Below), Tim Rice’s From Here to Eternity (Conductor), and William Finn’s The Royal Family of Broadway (Barrington, Assoc. MD).

Benji toured the world music directing the Yale Whiffenpoofs, and has performed as a vocalist at Tanglewood (soloist), in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, and at many cabaret venues in New York City.

He was selected for both the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and the NMI New Voices Project, and is a recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Scholarship, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and Yale’s Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize.

Benji is also a crossword constructor who has been published in the New York Times.

Benji is a native New Yorker, and as of 2023 is a member of the Westbeth Artists Community. Benji holds a BA in Music from Yale and an MFA from NYU Tisch. He is on the Adjunct Faculty at NYU Steinhardt and NYU Tisch.