Benjamin Loeb

Benjamin Loeb is an accomplished soloist, accompanist, conductor, arranger, educator, arts administrator and entrepreneur. The Boston Globe has heralded his piano performances, and he has soloed with the Boston Pops Orchestra with Alan Gilbert. He has also collaborated with conductors JoAnn Falletta, Carl St. Clair, Rossen Milanov, and others. His widely varied projects range from concerts of Beethoven and Bruckner Symphonies to recordings with Yo-Yo Ma of Italian 16th-century madrigalists to tours with popular rock musicians to world premieres of avant-garde contemporary music.

To highlight his 2024-25 season, he will conduct the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Murry Sidlin’s “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín.” He will also conduct performances and recordings with the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine), the North Bohemian Opera Ballet Orchestra (Czech Republic) and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic). In recent seasons, he performed the complete Brahms Violin Sonatas with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Robert Chen. Loeb toured Argentina and Uruguay as the U.S. State Department Artistic Ambassador, performing and giving master classes and workshops. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School, and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

He lives in Plano, with his wife, Quyen, and children Anna Sofia Uni, Lulu Ladybug, and Ryan “Taco”. His far-ranging interests are not limited to music; he has directed plays, cooked gourmet meals for 65 people, tutored more than 500 students in test preparation for the Princeton Review, and played and enjoyed almost every sport.