Benjamin Kwasi Burrell | Composer | Musical Director | Orchestrator & Arranger

Benjamin Kwasi Burrell is a composer, orchestrator, arranger and musical director. He won a 2019 Black British Theatre Award in recognition of his work as musical director of Small Island (National Theatre). In 2025, Benjamin worked with Chineke to record and arrange music for Asake and Jhus.

Credits as Composer: RSC First Encounters: Romeo & Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre & Noël Coward Theatre); Grenfell: in the Words of the Survivors (National Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre); Best of Enemies (Young Vic & Noël Coward Theatre); Small Island (National Theatre); A Taste of Honey (UK Tour & Trafalgar Studios); Beyond Beethoven 9 (National Youth Orchestra, Southbank Centre). On screen, Benjamin is the composer on Three Little Birds (ITV). He composed the score for horror feature Shortcut (Mad Rocket Entertainment).

Credits as Musical Supervisor: Drew McConie’s Nutcracker (Southbank Centre); Mandela (Young Vic)

Credits for Screen: Rewriting Trump (Sky); Grenfell Uncovered (Netflix) and Just Act Normal (BBC 3).

Credits as Musical Director: Titus Andronicus (RSC/ Hampstead Theatre); Coventry Moves – Coventry City of Culture 2021. Benjamin is also the MD of the House and Garage Orchestra.

Credits as Orchestrator and/or Arranger: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Royal Shakespeare Company/ Soho Theatre); The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Play On (Tarawa Theatre);

Credits as assistant musical director include: Get Up, Stand Up (Lyric Theatre); Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre); One Love (Birmingham Rep); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Wyndam’s Theatre); and A Clockwork Orange (Theatre Royal Stratford East).