Benjamin Westphalen is an award-winning composer, producer and sound designer from Germany, working in New York and Hamburg.

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Films featuring his work have been showcased at numerous festivals and won awards at the Student Academy Awards, Independent Shorts, the Tasveer Film Festival, and the College Television Awards / Emmys. His Score for "A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness)" recently won the Hollywood Music in Media Award 2025 for Best Score in the Short Film (Documentary) category.

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Benjamin’s background in piano, audio engineering and beat production allows for an unconventional fusion of traditional and modern techniques, organic ambiences and electronic soundscapes, orchestral textures and electronic beats.​

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He was a selected as a member of the SCL NY mentorship cohort in 2024-25 as well as the Columbia University Film Scoring Workshop and the VIFF CFA (Vancouver International Film Festival Composer Filmmaker Accelerator) in 2026 and graduated with the master’s degree in Music Theory & Composition: Screen Scoring from NYU Steinhardt in 2025.