Benjamin Aneff

Benjamin Aneff is currently the Assistant Conductor of the North Penn Symphony, and Music Director of the New Horizons Program and Third Street Music School in New York City. His duties at North Penn include conducting the Family, Holiday, and Pops concerts, working with and leading concerto competition winners in their performances, and preparing the orchestra for all subscription concerts.

Interested in a wide variety of music, Mr. Aneff has conducted works from a large spectrum of composers. This past year has seen him lead the North Penn Symphony in performances of works by composers such as Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Delius and Faure. Additionally, he has prepared the orchestra for large scale works including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and Copland’s Third Symphony.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Aneff was completing a Masters in Conducting at Ithaca College. While Music Director of the Ithaca College Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Mr. Aneff led works by composers such as Takamitsu and Messaien, and collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Karel Husa and Michael Colgrass on performances of their music. His time at Ithaca also saw him conduct symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich, and lead solo works by such varied composers as Schumann, Villa-Lobos, Vivaldi, and Benjamin Britten. As an accomplished horn player, Mr. Aneff performed with numerous orchestras, as well as at music festivals in Aspen and Las Vegas, working with conductors such as James Conlon, Allan Gilbert, and David Zinman. A New York resident and Texas Native, he has studied conducting with Jeffrey Grogan, Gary Lewis, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier, and Daniel Lewis.