Benjamin Grosvenor

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR      Piano

Programme to include:

Schumann               Blumenstück, Op.19 & Kreisleriana

Janacek                    Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905

Prokofiev                 Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (selections)

Liszt                          Réminiscences de Norma (Bellini)
 

Winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, Benjamin Grosvenor is now an internationally regarded pianist performing with esteemed conductors and orchestras across the world. A BBC New Generation Artist from 2010-2012 Benjamin has performed at the BBC Proms on a number of occasions and in 2015 starred at the Last Night. Exclusively signed to Decca Classics, the youngest British musician to do so, his recordings have received numerous awards and in October 2016 he was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Ronny and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize at the New York Philharmonic. Playing since the age of six, Benjamin graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2012 with the ‘Queen’s Commendation for Excellence’

He commands the stage with aristocratic ease … Mr Grosvenor makes you sigh with joy … A temperament rare in yesteryear, let alone now.’
David Allen, The New York Times