His collaborators include the BBC Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, Crash Ensemble, Fidelio Trio, Garth Knox, the London Sinfonietta and RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Bennett is the artistic director of Decibel ensemble and lectures in Composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a recent recipient of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for the Performing Arts and is currently composer-in-residence at the Royal Holloway, University of London.