Willy Benda (5 October 1870, Vevey[1] – 18 August 1929, Bielefeld) was German cellist and conductor. In 1890s he lived in Scotland being a professor of piano, cello and accompaniment at the Athenaeum School of Music.[2] He also conducted the amateur orchestra Greenock with more than 60 performers.[3] For one year (1898) he participated in the Kosman String Quartet.[4]
In 1907 he was called from Charlottenburg to Bielefeld to become the director of the Bielefeld Konservatorium.[5]