Benjamin lees biography net worth

Benjamin Lees was born in Harbin now China, but part of Russian-controlled Manchuria prior to , whose significant ethnic Russian population and cultural identity continued long afterward , where there was an established Jewish community. His parents emigrated to the United States in and settled in San Francisco, where he began piano lessons at the age of five, and he continued his piano studies with Marguerite Bitter in Los Angeles when his parents relocated there in During his teen years, he embarked on a study of harmony and theory and began composing.

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From until he studied composition with George Antheil, who was working in Hollywood as a film composer. Lees considers Antheil his greatest mentor and influence. The next year, those were among the works that received the first Fromm Music Foundation awards, but it was probably in that he became an established American composer, with the award of a Guggenheim fellowship and the performance of his Profiles for Orchestra by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Milton Katims for a nationwide broadcast.

He spent the next seven years traveling in Europe and living in a small village near Paris. During that time he became the first composer to receive the Copley Foundation award, and his music began to be heard in Europe. His Four Songs of the Night , for soprano and chamber orchestra, was premiered at a concert devoted to his chamber works, held at the Piccolo Teatro Duse in Genoa.

In he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Finland, and that same year saw the premiere in Vienna of his first piano concerto. Two years later, while he was still in Europe, his second symphony was commissioned and performed by the Louisville Orchestra. He also wrote a violin concerto and received two other important prizes: a UNESCO award for his second string quartet, and the Sir Arnold Bax Society medal in London—the first time that award was given to a composer from outside Great Britain.

When Lees returned to the United States in , he was appointed a professor of composition at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Lees taught for about a year on the faculty of Queens College, in New York, during which time he composed his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra—a work that has been performed more than eighty times since, by more than thirty-five orchestras.

When he returned to Peabody where he remained until , he composed a second piano concerto that was premiered by Gary Graffman with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; it won a second Guggenheim fellowship. White, which was commissioned and performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.