Benjy Fox-Rosen

Benjy Fox-Rosen (Los Angeles, 1984) is a composer/performer and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. As a composer he has been commissioned to write works for choirs, artistic interventions, and audio-installations. His works have been performed at the Arnold Schönberg Center, the Musikverein and the Weiner Festwochen. As a performer, Fox-Rosen is active as a singer and bass player, specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer music; three of his recordings were lauded by the Forward as Jewish Music recordings of the year. Fox-Rosen served as choir director of the historic Wiener Stadttempel Synagogue from 2017-2024, where he developed expertise in music of the Ashkenazi synagogue. As a researcher Fox-Rosen conducted his Master’s thesis on the Stadttempel choir, using ethnographic research methods to address questions of musical change, meaning and continuity. Fox-Rosen has also published scholarly reflections on his own artistic practice, focusing on questions of translation in the performance of Yiddish song, particularly in the German speaking world. Fox-Rosen is currently a research fellow at the Music and Minorities Research Center at the University of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna. His current project focuses on the history of minority music research in Vienna.