Benjamin Loeb is a Grammy-nominated conductor, solo and collaborative pianist, arranger, educator, arts administrator and entrepreneur. His piano performances have been heralded by the Boston Globe: “[his] vigorous, cogent playing signaled the kind of equally weighted partnership, plus competition, plus mutual quest, etc. that [makes] this music live.” He has soloed with the Boston Pops Orchestra with Alan Gilbert and has also collaborated with JoAnn Falletta, Carl St. Clair, Rossen Milanov, and others. His widely varied projects range from concerts of Beethoven and Bruckner Symphonies to recordings with Yo-Yo Ma of Italian 16th century madrigalists to tours with popular rock musicians to world premieres of cutting-edge avant-garde contemporary music.
In the 2024-25 season, he conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a sold-out performance of Murry Sidlin’s Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin. He also conducted performances and recordings with the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine), the North Bohemian Opera Ballet Orchestra (Czech), and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech). In recent seasons, he performed the complete Brahms Violin Sonatas with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Robert Chen. Loeb toured Argentina and Uruguay as US State Department Artistic Ambassador, performing and giving master classes and workshops. In 2002 he founded continues to run the International Conducting Workshop and Festival, one of the most successful training seminars for orchestra conductors which has been held in the US, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Czech. The summer of 2025 marked the release on Studio 7 Media of Grammy-nominated “ALIKE – My Mother’s Dream” on which he both conducts and plays piano with longtime collaborator, soprano Allison Charney. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School, and the Peabody.
As an arts administrator he served as Executive Director of the Quad City (Iowa) Symphony Orchestra from 2013 through 2017 and as Executive Director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony. He was interim Music Director of the 2011 New Hampshire Music Festival programming the entire season and conducting five of six Masterworks and two of three Pops concerts. As Associate Conductor of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Loeb founded and served as both Executive and Music Director of the El Paso Symphony Youth. He is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Conducting Workshop and Festival, now in its twenty-third year.
He lives in Plano, TX with his wife, Quyen, and three children Anna Sofia Uni, Lulu Ladybug, and Ryan “Taco”. His educational activities include teaching piano and conducting privately, giving master classes and workshops nationwide, and most recently serving as an artist for Cliburn in the Classroom, the Cliburn Foundation’s interactive concert experience brought directly in school in the DFW area. His far-ranging interests do not limit him to music; he has directed plays, cooked gourmet meals for 65, tutored over 500 people in test preparation for the Princeton Review, and played and enjoyed almost every sport. Moreover (or most important), he is a lifetime Dallas Cowboys fan.