Benjamin Bagby (born February 20, 1950) is an American singer, composer, harpist, and performer of medieval music.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the group specialized in the music of Hildegard of Bingen; many of their most famous recordings are from this period.
Benjamin Bagby's work as a composer also contributes to his recreations of the ancient epics, such as Beowulf, the Icelandic Edda and German music from the 10th and 11th centuries on their recent recording Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper.
[1] He gave presentations internationally including at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.[when?
][2] Bagby (widowed from his longtime collaborator Barbara Thornton) married Croatian chant scholar Katarina Livljanić.