Ben Lieberman (aka LIEBS) is a composer, guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, patent engineer, and proud cat parent whose musical interests and endeavors span the gamut from emotive folk and love songs to psychedelic rock and noise-based improvisation to microtonal chamber music and Musique concrete.

Ben has performed as a frontman, collaborator, and sideman throughout New York City as well as internationally. His performance credits include the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Roulette, the Whitney Museum, the Roundhouse in London, and the KigaliUp festival in Kigali, Rwanda. Ben’s performance project, LIEBS, takes shape in any variety of form and sound. His solo shows veer from the entirely improvised — where jazz-inspired runs give way to heavily effected waves of droning guitar feedback — to intimate acoustic serenades. As a band, LIEBS traverses terrain that has been described as “mystic rock.” (In as much as a genre label can impart anything of import, this one feels close enough to the mark.) LIEBS’ debut EP, phantasm, is scheduled to be released Winter 2020.

Ben’s chamber works have been performed by Sirius Quartet, City of Tomorrow, counter)induction and members of Bang on a Can Allstars. Ben was recently recognized with a Merit Award honor in the 2020 Division 1 Tribeca New Music Young Composer’s Competition for his string quartet, Amulet. His fixed media piece, Aftergrowth, with animation by Bradley Turner, was selected to be included in the 2019 Echofluxx Festival in Prague. In his chamber music, Ben strives to bring the ecstatic energy and rhythmic grooves of rock to bear on harmonic worlds that draw from jazz, spectralism and extended just intonation. Ben received an MFA in music composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2019. His composition teachers have included Arthur Kampela, John Mallia, John Fitz Rogers, and Michael Early.