Bracanin: Excerpt from Dance Gundah 2. Andante

Benjamin Vary holds the honour of being the first Australian to have graduated from the renowned conducting class of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he studied with Jorma Panula, Eri Klas, Atso Almila and Leif Segerstam.  Vary also worked intensively under the guidance of Ilja Musin at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and Christoph Eschenbach at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo.  Previously, Vary completed postgraduate studies in conducting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Since making his professional debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the 1999 International Barossa Music Festival, Benjamin Vary has conducted orchestras in Denmark, Norway, Australia, Spain, Italy (Siena Chamber Orchestra and Sofia Symphony Orchestra), France’s Orchestre National du Capitole du Toulouse, the UK’s Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and almost all of the orchestras in Finland, most notably the St Michel Strings and the Tampere Philharmonic.

Vary has been awarded the Dalley-Scarlett Memorial Scholarship, a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship, and prizes from the Queen Elizabeth II Trust and the Australia Council.

Bracanin: Excerpt from Dance Gundah 2. Andante

Benjamin Vary, conductor