The Maryland Choral Society is delighted to welcome Benjamin Buchanan as our Interim Artistic Director for the 2024–25 season.

interim artistic director

Benjamin Buchanan  

info@marylandchoralsociety.org

In addition to his work with the Maryland Choral Society, Benjamin Buchanan can be seen performing as a beatboxing toy-instrumentalist and performance artist throughout the Baltimore and Washington D.C. areas, as well as at St. Marks-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church where he serves as Director of Music and Organist. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Tulsa, he moved to Baltimore to study with the world-renowned composer Michael Hersch at the Peabody Conservatory, where he has received Masters of Music degrees in both Music Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy.

His compositional work has merited him praise as being the “most quickly enflaming young composer” by the three-time Nobel Prize-nominated poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, as well as being performed in Sweden by the violinist Peter Sheppared Skærved, in Hungary by flutist Gergely Ittzés, in Italy by Ensemble 5.9, and throughout the United States. A collection of his collaborations with the sculptor Sara Dittrich, titled Symphony of Gestures, was exhibited at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan for ArtPrize 7 and earned a Top 5 ranking in the Time-Based Art category through the public vote.