A versatile and dynamic musician, conductor Benjamin Vickers engages audiences, musicians, and communities. He was appointed music director of the Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra in June 2014 after a year-long search.

Mr. Vickers served as the Zander Conducting Fellow at the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra; associate conductor at the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra in New Hampshire, whose 2012 Carnegie Hall debut he conducted; and assistant conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

Benjamin Vickers was born and grew up in New Mexico. He attended the University of New Mexico and Arizona State University, earning degrees in cello performance. He studied conducting at the University of Michigan. Vickers was a cellist in the El Paso Symphony Orchestra as well as Staff Conductor for the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras.

He has been a participant in conducting masterclasses taught by eminent conductors including Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Gustav Meier, Jorge Mester, Larry Rachleff, and Benjamin Zander.