Benjamin Till is a multi-award-winning, BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) -nominated filmmaker and composer who is a pioneer in the unusual genre of the televised documentary musical in which ordinary people sing about their own lives. He is the Resident Composer and a vocalist for Mosaic Voices, a professional male-voice choir based at New West End Synagogue in Central London. As a composer, he's known for writing hugely-ambitious, often site-specific or place-inspired works.
In 2010, Benjamin Till recorded all the bells mentioned in the nursery rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons" (two hundred bells in seventeen London churches), and wrote a piece of music to feature them all playing in harmony, alongside a choir of people who live or work in one of the areas around the churches. This twelve-minute composition, which included a staggering 4000 individual bell strikes was featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and BBC Radio 4's Today Programme,[2] alongside in depth coverage by BBC London,[3][4][5] who sponsored the piece with Arts Council England. The piece received its premiere performance on 11 July 2009 at St. Mary le Bow Church, London.
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