Benjamin Loeb - Pianist, Conductor

Benjamin Loeb

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.

To highlight his 2024-25 season, he will conduct the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Murry Sidlin’s Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin. He will conduct 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. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School, and the Peabody Conservatory.

He lives in Plano, TX with his wife, Quyen, and three children Anna Sofia Uni, Lulu Ladybug, and Ryan “Taco”. 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.