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Benjamin Grosvenor - Piano

Wigmore Hall, 20-Apr-2024 / 11:30

Wigmore Hall, 28-Nov-2023 / 19:30

Royal Albert Hall, 6-Aug-2023 / 11:00

Royal Albert Hall, 16-Jul-2023 / 11:00

Royal Festival Hall, 8-Jun-2023 / 19:30

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).

Wigmore Hall, 07-May-2023 / 19:30

  • Bach: Chaconne from BWV1004 (arranged by Ferruccio Busoni)
  • Schumann: Fantasie in C Op. 17
  • Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83

Royal Festival Hall, 5-Feb-2023 / 19:30

  • Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2
  • Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal Festival Hall, 1-Dec-2022 / 19:30

  • Chopin:

Unfortunately, Benjamin Grosvenor's concert scheduled for the 14th of June 2020 at the Wigmore Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Royal Albert Hall, 13-Aug-2022 / 19:30

  • Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

Wigmore Hall, 08-May-2022 / 19:30

  • 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
  • Philharmonia Orchestra

Wigmore Hall, 15-Feb-2022 / 19:30

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

Wigmore Hall, 09-Oct-2021 / 19:30

  • 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

Recital with the Doric String Quartet

  • 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

Recital with the Doric String Quartet

  • 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

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 29-May-2018 / 19:30

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 26-Apr-2018 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 24-Jan-2018 / 19:30

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

St John's Smith Square, 5-Oct-2016 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 24-Jun-2016 / 19:00

Milton Court Concert Hall, 1-May-2016 / 19:30

Mr. Grosvenor performed:

Barbican Hall, 23-Jan-2015 / 19:30

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.