Christian Benda

Christian Benda is a conductor, composer and cellist, descended from the eighteenth-century Benda family of composers.
He performs worldwide both as a soloist and a conductor.
His numerous recordings include many classical standards such as Mozart, Rossini and Schubert overtures as well as the compositions of his ancestors Georg Anton (Jiří Antonín) Benda, František Benda and Jan Jiří Benda.
He is chief conductor and artistic director of the Prague Sinfonia.
Between 2012 and 2014 he recorded a four-volume cycle of Gioacchino Rossini's complete operatic overtures for Naxos Records with the Prague Sinfonia Orchestra.
He was a Climate Ally in the "Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice" campaign.