The Hanover Band - with which Benjamin appears regularly as guest conductor - present Beethoven's Symphony no.5 in a collaboration with several youth orchestras in and around London and the Southern Counties, culminating in a performance at London's St.Pancras Station and featuring almost 200 young musicians. 

Benjamin returns to NorrlandsOperan to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro, on tour in Northern Sweden.

Benjamin's new ensemble - founded with the violinist Jorge Jimenez - gives its first concerts at the London and Göttingen Handel Festivals. In a collaboration with the soprano Suzana Ograjensek, the ensemble perform Handel, Geminiani and Scarlatti. 

Following weeks of intensive rehearsals, Benjamin conducts Elisabeth Linton's new production of Mozart's "Così fan tutte" for Danish National Opera. Århus Symphony Orchestra will be in the pit, but as the production tours around Denmark - culminating in performances at Copenhagen's Royal Opera House - the wondrous score will also be played by Odense Symphony Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and the CPH Phil. 

Benjamin returns to the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra for The Messiah, presented for the first time in Aalborg's magnificent Musikhuset.

orchestra seventeen88 present their biggest concert so far, performing Schubert's monumental "Great" Symphony no.9 in C major, for the first time in Australia on period instruments. Renowned flautist Georgia Browne will also join the orchestra to perform Mozart's beautiful Flute Concerto in G major. 

Benjamin conducts Andrea Cigni's new production of Carmen, to open the season at the Teatro Comunale in Sassari. Nino Surguladze sings the title role. 

Benjamin conducts the revival of Fairy Queen / AscheMOND - a mixture of Purcell's masque and new music by the German composer Helmut Oehring - with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin at the Staatsoper Berlin, in a production by Claus Guth.