Composer - Conductor - Musical Director
Benjamin Ellin
Award-winning and critically acclaimed British conductor and composer Benjamin Ellin is currently co-founder and Musical Director of De Mowbray Music, Music Director of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, co-founder, conductor and composer of the contemporary-fusion ensemble Tafahum, Principal Conductor of the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra and President of Pembroke Academy of Music, London. Benjamin is also a founding trustee of the Evgeny Svetlanov Charitable Trust.
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2024/2025 Season
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Slaithwaite Season Opener
22nd September 2024 | 3pm
Slaithwaite Civic Hall
Programme to include:
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante
Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Violin: Matthew Chadbond
Viola: Megan Hart
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Bruckner 8
19th October 2024 | 7.30 pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Salonen - Nyx
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Thursford Christmas Spectacular
8th November 2024 - 23rd December 2024
The 47th season of the Thursford Spectacular, where Benjamin is Musical Director.
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The Planets
18th January 2025 | 7.30 pm
Naftel – Pandora
Britten – Serenade
Holst – The Planets
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
French Horn: Claire Marsden
Tenor: Joseph Buckmaster
onductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Spring in Slawit
Sunday 9th March 2025 | 3.00 pm
Slaithwaite Civic Hall
Mozart - Overture, Don Giovanni
Richard Strauss - Suite for Wind in Bb
Schubert- Symphony No 3
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Romeo and Juliet
12th April 2025 | 7.30pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Bloch - Schelomo
Adams - A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Still Afro - American Symphony
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Cello: Peter Dixon
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Mahler 1 - Isle of Man
17th May 2025 | 7.30pm
Villa Marina, Isle of Man
Programme to include:
Chabrier - Espagne
Britten - Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Mahler - Symphony No 1, Titan*
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Isle of Man Symphony Orchestra
Narrator: Charles Guard
Conductors: Benjamin Ellin*
Graham Kirkland
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Mahler 1
21st June 2025 | 7.30pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Chabrier - Espagne
Smith - Symphony in a minor
Mahler - Symphony No 1, Titan
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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De Mowbray Music Festival
14th - 17th August 2025
Thirsk
The De Mowbray Music Festival returns for a four day showcase including Verdi’s Requiem, Don Giovanni, Night Mail, Wallace and Gromit and much more.
Full can be found at www.demowbraymusic.com
2023/2024 Season
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John Lees' Barclay James Harvest and SPO
23rd September 2023 | 7.30pm
24th September 2023 | 4pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Barclay James Harvest with the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Brahms 2
14th October 2023 | 7.30 pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Dvorak - Noon Day Witch
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms - Symphony No. 2
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Piano: Andrew Zolinsky
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Thursford Christmas Spectacular
8th November 2023 - 23rd December 2023
The 46th season of the Thursford Spectacular, where Benjamin is Musical Director.
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Mahler 7
20th January 2024 | 7.30 pm
Bloom – New Work (World Premiere)
Copland – El Salon Mexico
Mahler – Symphony No. 7
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Spring in Slawit
Sunday 3rd March 2024 | 3.00 pm
Slaithwaite Civic Hall
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 2
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3
Mendelssohn - Symphony No 3, Scottish
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Shostakovich 7
13th April 2024 | 7.30pm
Huddersfield Town Hall
Liadov - Baba Yaga
Barber - Violin Concerto
Shostakovich - Symphony No 7, Leningrad
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
Violin: Matthew Chadbond
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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Glagolitic Mass
22nd June 2024 | 7.30pm
Manchester Cathedral
Scriabin - Poem of Ecstasy
Poulenc - Gloria
Janacek - Glagolitic Mass
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra
St George’s Singers
Conductor: Benjamin Ellin
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De Mowbray Music Festival
15th - 18th August 2024
Thirsk
The De Mowbray Music Festival returns for a four day showcase.
Richard Bratby, The Spectator
“Ellin clearly loves this music, and his players, equally clearly, were ready to follow where he led…
…here was an amateur orchestra showing the way”
Sir Colin Davis, CH
"Benjamin Ellin is a fine and serious musician. I have no hesitation in recommending him."