Benjamin Edelson is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles and New York.

Current film and television projects include contributing music to season five of Netflix’s BRIDGERTON, Lionsgate’s historical drama KILLING CASTRO starring Al Pacino, and season two of Amazon’s docuseries ONE NIGHT IN IDAHO: THE COLLEGE MURDERS. Current solo film projects include NO DANCING ALLOWED, an independent documentary whose preview premiered at The Guggenheim Museum.

Upcoming performances of his concert music include Six Short Dances, a suite for solo piano and chamber ensemble to premiere at The Juilliard School, and E-Biking from Canal to Houston, a standalone piece to be premiered by the Pacific Chamber Orchestra. Recent premieres have taken place at the Budapest Bartok Spring Festival (Continuities for soprano and piano, 2026), the Mostly Modern Festival (Basically Baroque Suite for brass quintet, 2025), New York University, (Exposed for orchestra, 2024), and Princeton University (Dusk for orchestra, 2022).

The winner of the 2026 Zsófia Tallér International Composition Competition, Benjamin received an honorable mention for the 2026 Pete Carpenter Fellowship, has been a two-time finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and in 2024 was a winner of NYU Steinhardt’s Film Scoring Competition. As an instrumentalist, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

Benjamin holds a master’s in film scoring from New York University, did his undergrad at Princeton University, and is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Program.