Benjamin Dia is a Filipino classical musician living in Austin, TX.

BENJAMIN DIA graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music, major in piano, at the University of the Philippines College of Music. He performed at the Philippine premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. He also performed at the 1997 Asian Composers’ League Festival in Manila, performing with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Players world premieres of new chamber music by Asian composers and was a regular guest musician of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra for more than ten years.

As soloist and collaborative artist, he has performed in the United States and Europe, performing in concert halls and festivals such as the Oslo Concert Hall, the United Nation’s Day concerts at the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona, the 2000 Autumn Music Festival in Marostica, Italy, and the Aberdeen Youth Festival in Scotland. He was a faculty member of the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, Asia’s foremost training center for church music and liturgy.

Benjamin made his conducting debut in 2005, leading Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the University of the Philippines College of Music. He had been involved in the musical preparation of numerous opera productions in the Philippines as coach and chorus master. He finished his master’s degree at the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey.

He made his US conducting debut at the NY premiere of De Leon’s Noli Me Tangere in 2013, performing it the following year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Currently based in Austin, TX, Benjamin finds himself a frequent collaborator of groups such as Inversion Ensemble, the ZACH Theater Pre-Professional Company, and Panoramic Voices.