Benjamin Roberts

Benjamin Roberts is an award-winning composer and orchestrator for musical theatre and the concert stage, regularly collaborating with Broadway's leading artists and professional wind ensembles around the globe. His music has been performed in more than a dozen countries across four continents, and he has created orchestrations and arrangements for Broadway artists including Brian d’Arcy James, Jessie Mueller, Ethan Slater, Heather Headley, Jennifer Holliday, and JJ Niemann. In 2021, he was commissioned to compose a fanfare for President Joe Biden, premiered for twenty heads of state at the APEC summit in San Francisco. Roberts serves as a staff composer for United States Air Force Bands and received First Prize in the Erik Satie International Music Competition for his wind ensemble suite Judaean Exultations. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University and is based in Tokyo.