Benjamin Janisch (*1997) was born in the United States. With eighteen years old he moved to Germany for his music studies. After pre-study courses in Freiburg he moved to Lübeck for his composition studies with Prof. Dieter Mack at the conservatory of music in Lübeck. In 2021 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in composition. Due to his broad musical interests, in 2018 he began a parallel degree in music theory with Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke, which he finished in 2023.
Further mentors, who have inspired him during his studies in Lübeck are Prof. Oliver Korte, Holger Best, Luis Ramos, Yoon-Jee Kim and Bernd Ruf. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in music theory at the conservatory of music in Mainz with Prof. Immanuel Ott and Prof. Birger Petersen.
Alongside being active in music theory, concert management (Katrof Ensemble), composition-pedagogy (Klangradar) as well as teaching music theory and partaking in interdisciplinary projects, his works have been performed by Ensemble Klangrauschen, Trio Klarisono, Saki Quartett and Tempus Konnex, as well as in Philadelphia, ZKM Karlsruhe (next generation festival), Hamburg (in the series northern dots), Prague and other locations.
He is recipient of the DAAD-prize of the conservatory of music in Lübeck, and received the first prize of the orchestra composition competition thereof in 2018 and again in 2020. In the fall of 2021 he received the first prize of the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Schönebeck orchestra competition.