Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison is a multi-instrumental musician, composer and producer from Adelaide, Australia. He has performed and toured across five continents, most recently with Cirque du Soleil's productions of Quidam, KOOZA, VOLTA and Alegria.

A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Benjamin plays saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone), EWI (electronic wind instrument), clarinet, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, bass guitar and other assorted woodwind instruments.

Benjamin graduated from the Elder Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Performance, specializing in Jazz Saxophone. During his studies Benjamin held the 1st tenor saxophone chair in the Downbeat magazine award-winning Big Band One, and in 2008, received an award for Top Undergraduate Saxophone.

From 2010-2012, Benjamin toured North America with Cirque du Soleil's show 'Quidam' playing saxophone and keyboards and in 2014, joined ‘KOOZA’ with which he toured Europe, North America, South America and Australia playing saxophone, keyboard, electric guitar, tin whistles, duduk and clarinet.

From 2016 until late 2018, Benjamin toured North America as bandleader on Cirque du Soleil's production of ‘VOLTA’ (with music by Anthony Gonzalez of M83) playing keyboard, synth, bass guitar and saxophone; and in 2019, worked on the production of 'Alegria: In A New Light' as bandleader/keyboards/programmer as well as the productions of ‘X: Land of Fantasy’ and ‘MESSI10’.