Benedict Taylor is a British musician who studied viola at the Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester and is one of four conservatories associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music...

 (2000-2004) with Roger Bigley - Lindsay Quartet

Lindsay Quartet

The Lindsay String Quartet was a British string quartet from 1965 to 2005.The quartet first performed at the Royal Academy of Music in 1965 to compete for a prize and set out to make the string quartets of Bartók and Beethoven the centre of their repertoire...

, Thomas Riebl, Steve Berry (improvisation), Chris Rowland (chamber music). From 2008-2010, he then read Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The central focus of his work is in the performance of music of the 20th century, newly composed music and improvised music, working as a performer and collaborator with artists including; Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton is a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, currently directing Writers Forum. Upton is remarkable for the range of his genres and forms; and for the political savvy of his writing. He is a performer, continuing and expanding the performance tradition of, amongst others, Bob Cobbing...

, Javier Carmona & Oso Records, Alex Ward, Daniel Thompson, Alison Blunt, Terry Day, Leon Michener, Tom Jackson (including Jackson & Taylor Duo), Jody K. Jenkins (Lipstikka

Lipstikka

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 - Jonathan Sagall, 2011), Eugenio Colombo

Eugenio Colombo

Eugenio Colombo is an Italian saxophonist and flautist most associated with avant-garde jazz. A founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Colombo has worked with such musicians as Mario Schiano, Giorgio Gaslini, Steve Lacy, Bruno Tommaso, Maurizio Giammarco, Giancarlo Schiaffini and the...

, Mark Sanders, Francesco Hoch, Noel Taylor, Alberto Popolla, Redstart (trio), Noura Sanatian, Paul Pieroni/SPACE & Wysing Arts Centre, Dane Hurst & Rambert Dance Company

Rambert Dance Company

Rambert Dance Company, is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it would exert a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, it continues to be one of the...

, David Leahy, Lucy Railton, Newton Armstrong, Jordan Hunt, Slavko Zagorac, Stephen Crowe, London Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, Kammer Klang Players, London Contemporary Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Collective. Past festival appearances include; Aldeburgh Festival

Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings...

, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

The Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte is an annual Italian summer school and musical festival for young singers, actors, musicians, conductors and composers. It was set up in Montepulciano in 1976 by Hans Werner Henze, a string of whose works have been premiered at it.Productions are worked on in the...

 - Montepulciano, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...

/BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...

, Resonance FM

Resonance FM

Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...

. Artistic residencies held between 2007 - 2011 include; Mehli Mehta Music Foundation - Mumbai & Aldeburgh Music.

In 2009/10 he initiated many composition projects both in the UK and abroad, scoring and creating the soundtracks for That Girl in Yellow Boots

That Girl in Yellow Boots

That Girl in Yellow Boots is a 2011 Indian thriller film by director Anurag Kashyap, starring Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, followed by Venice Film Festival after it played in several festivals...

 (Dir. Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Singh Kashyap is an Indian film director and screenwriter. As a director, he is known for Black Friday , a controversial and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking , Dev D and Gulaal...

), Harud (Dir. Aamir Bashir) - both in collaboration with Naren Chandavarkar and Suhaas Ahuja, Waves of Power (Rajesh Thind & National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings forming part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, it also incorporates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,...

2011), Presage (Maria Guerberof 2010) - Collaborating with Alison Blunt, with screenings at film festivals in 2010/11 including Venice, London, Toronto, Mumbai & Rotterdam, to widespread critical acclaim . In 2010/2011 he founded Cram Collective, a contemporary music group, which investigates both conventional and experimental composition, improvisation and performance techniques, engaging with varying independent music projects alongside international commissions. The group is notable for working across geographical, cultural, media & artistic boundaries.