Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Lexus Song Quest, Benson Wilson was a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. Other companies for him he has sung include Glyndebourne, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Holland Park and Welsh National Opera.
A committed recitalist, he has collaborated with pianists including Lucy Colquhoun, Ella O’Neill, James Baillieu, Iain Burnside and Joseph Middleton at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Brighton, Kings Lynn, Leeds Lieder, Ludlow and Oxford Lieder Festivals. He has appeared in concert with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and sang Finzi’s Et in terra pax for his debut with BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Omaro.
A 2019 Salzburg Festival Young Artist, where he sang Mirza Der Gesang der Zauberinsel, and a Samling Artist, Benson Wilson graduated from the University of Auckland and completed his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.
Recent engagements have included Marcello in Robin Norton- Hale’s new film of La bohème for Finite Films, Britten’s War Requiem with Orchestra Wellington, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Benson Wilson is delighted to be making his debut with New Zealand Opera.