Favourite pieces
César Franck's Prélude, choral et fugue performed in 2022 (May) and 2015 (January).
Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit performed in 2021 (April) and 2018 (April).
Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin performed in
2023 (May)
and 2016 (June).
Schumann's Kreisleriana Op. 16 performed in 2022 (May) and 2019 (May, 16).
- Bach: Chaconne from BWV1004 (arranged by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Schumann: Fantasie in C Op. 17
- Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83
- Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2
Unfortunately, Benjamin Grosvenor's concert scheduled for the 14th of June 2020 at the Wigmore Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic.
- Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
- Albéniz: Iberia (Book 1)
- Ravel: Jeux d'eau and La valse
Royal Festival Hall, 20-Feb-2022 / 17:00
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat
Recital with Hyeyoon Park
- Mozart: Violin Sonata in F K376
- Webern: 4 Pieces for violin and piano Op. 7
- Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
- Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1 BB94a
- Schubert: Fantasy in C D934
- Mahler: Piano Quartet movement in A minor
- Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47
- Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13
Royal Albert Hall, 7-Sep-2021 / 19:30
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major (cadenzas: Saint-Saëns)
Barbican Hall, 10-Apr-2021, Live streamed
- Schubert/Liszt: Ave Maria
- Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor
- Alberto Ginastera: Three Argentinian Dances
He was Artist-in-Residence at Radio France for the 2020-21 season.
Favourite pieces
Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 (Funeral March) performed in 2016 (October and June).
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed in 2019 (October, 8) with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra being directed by Gareth Malone at the Royal Albert Hall
and in 2019 (July) with the The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra and clarinetist Giacomo Smith under the baton of Guy Barker at the Cadogan Hall.
Wigmore Hall, 9-Jun-2020 / 13:00
Recital with violinist Hyeyoon Park
- Karol Szymanowski: Myths Op. 30
- Franck: Sonata in A for violin and piano
Mr. Grosvenor performed on the 27th of February 2020 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. See Kian Soltani for more details.
Milton Court Concert Hall, 26-Nov-2019 / 19:30
- Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor
- Robin Haigh: New work (world premiere)
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 (Le Jeunehomme)
- Dobrinka Tabakova: Fantasy Homage to Schubert
- Schubert: Fantasie in F minor (arr Tabakova)
- Britten Sinfonia
- Thomas Gould - Violin, director
- Benjamin Grosvenor - Piano, director
Milton Court Concert Hall, 26-May-2019 / 19:30
- Janáček: Kreutzer Sonata
- Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2
- Dvořák: Piano Quintet No 2
Benjamin Grosvenor won the 2012 Gramophone Awards in the Instrumental category for his debut Decca recital disc “Chopin-Liszt-Ravel”.
He played Schumann's Blumenstück, Janáček's Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, Liszt/Bellini's Réminicences de Norma and Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives Nos 1, 2, 3 on the
16th of May 2019 in the Barbican Hall.
In 2004, aged eleven, he won the Keyboard Final of the BBC Young Musician Competition.
Milton Court Concert Hall, 11-Feb-2019 / 19:30
- Schubert: Quartettsatz
- Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1
- Faure: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor
Benjamin Grosvenor played Rachmaninov´s Piano Concerto No.2 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alondra de la Parra at the Royal Festival Hall on the 19th of October 2018.
Benjamin Grosvenor played Mozart´s Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K467 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sakari Oramo at the Royal Albert Hall on the 24th of August 2018
Royal Albert Hall, 16-Aug-2018 / 22:15
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (original version with jazz band, arr. Grofé)
- National Youth Jazz Orchestra
- Guy Barker - Conductor
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 29-May-2018 / 19:30
- Schubert:
- Piano Trio in E flat D.897 (Notturno)
- Piano Quintet in A, D.667 (Trout)
- Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.25
- Brett Dean: Skizzen für Siegbert (Sketches for Siegbert)
- Benjamin Grosvenor
- Hyeyoon Park - Violin
- Brett Dean - Viola, Kian Soltani - Cello
- Leon Bosch - Double bass
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 26-Apr-2018 / 19:30
- Bach: French Suite No.5 in G BWV816
- Brahms: 4 Pieces Op.119
- Brett Dean: Hommage à Brahms
- Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (arr. Leonard Borwick for piano)
- Berg: Sonata Op.1
Barbican Hall, 24-Jan-2018 / 19:30
- Grieg: Piano Concerto
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4
- Filarmonica della Scala
- Riccardo Chailly - Conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor played works by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartok, Chopin and Franck in The Westminster Cathedral Hall on the 25th of June 2017.
Royal Festival Hall, 17-May-2017 / 19:30
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Southbank Sinfonia, Simon Over - Conductor
St John's Smith Square, 5-Oct-2016 / 19:30
- Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K.333
- Scriabin: Sonata No.2 in G sharp minor, Op.19 (Sonata-fantasy)
- Granados:
- Los Requiebros (Goyescas No.1)
- El Fandango de candil (Goyescas No.3)
- Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole, S.254
Wigmore Hall, 24-Jun-2016 / 19:00
- Mendelssohn, Prelude and Fugues:
- in E minor Op. 35 No. 1
- in F minor Op. 35 No. 5
- Liszt: Venezia e Napoli S162
Milton Court Concert Hall, 1-May-2016 / 19:30
- Elena Langer: new work (London premiere)
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat
- Strauss: Metamorphosen
- Britten Sinfonia
- Benjamin Grosvenor - Piano, Director
- Jacqueline Shave - Violin, Director
Mr. Grosvenor performed:
- > Ravel's Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Thierry Fischer on the 23rd of October 2015 in the Royal Festival Hall.
- > Chopin's Concerto for Piano No. 1 and Franck's Symphonic Variations with the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda on the 8th of August 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall.
Barbican Hall, 23-Jan-2015 / 19:30
- Rameau: Gavotte and Variations in A minor
- Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in D minor
- Chopin:
- Barcarolle
- Two Mazurkas Op 63 No 2 and Op 30 No 4
- Ballade No 3 in A flat
- Granados, Goyescas Quejas
- ó la maja y el ruiseñor
- El amor y la muerte
- El pelele
He made his BBC Proms debut on the first night of 2011 season with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek in a performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major followed by Brahms's Allegro from Hungarian Dance No. 5.