BenjaminGrosvenor
- Piano


About Benjamin
British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has an acclaimed international career as a soloist and chamber musician, which is reflected in his extensive discography on Decca Classics.
During his 2025/26 season, Benjamin debuts with the Swedish Radio (Beethoven 1), performs Ravel’s G major Concerto with Filharmonica della Scala, San Diego Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony and Orchestre Svizzera Italiana and closes the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 80th anniversary season with a UK tour of Stauss’s Burleske. He also returns to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam for his debut performance with John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London.
Recital highlights this season include Carnegie Hall, Chicago, Amsterdam, Singapore and London. He makes his debut at Berlin’s Boulez Saal with Kian Soltani and at Vienna’s Muzikverein and Heidelberger Frühling with his Piano Quartet featuring Hyeyoon Park, Timothy Ridout and Kian Soltani.
Previous concerto engagements have included Cleveland, Boston Symphony, NHK Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Orchestre National de France. Benjamin performs with all the major UK orchestras and regularly appears at the BBC Proms, most recently with Ravel G major (2025) and Busoni (2024), and has also performed a solo recital and at the First and Last Nights.
Benjamin’s recent conductor collaborations include Marin Alsop, Elim Chan, Edward Gardner, Manfred Honneck, Paavo Jarvi, Nathalie Stutzmann, Krzysztof Urbanski and Kazuki Yamada.
A celebrated recitalist, recent engagements have included Berliner Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Lucerne and at Klavierfest Ruhr, Mantaa and La Roque d’Anthéron Festivals. He was a featured artist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and in 2024 premiered Hommage à Liszt by Brett Dean in Lucerne, Chicago and London.
Benjamin has an impressive and multi award-winning discography stretching back to 2011 on Decca Classics, with the most recent release being of solo repertoire by Chopin.
Representation
General management with Askonas Holt
Partner Managers:
Arts Management Group (North America)
Novellette Arts (Japan)
Veronique Jourdain Artists Management (France)
Lorenzo Baldrighi (Italy)
Imusica (Spain & Latin America)
Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
Britten Piano Concerto Op. 13 NHK Symphony Orchestra (Paavo Järvi)
Credit: NHK Symphony Orchestra
Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B Minor, Op 58 - 4: Finale
From the new album, Chopin Piano Sonatas 2 & 3, out now: https://benjamingrosvenor.lnk.to/ChopinSonatasID Credit: Benjamin Grosvenor
Chopin: Berceuse in D Flat Major, Op. 57
From the new album, Chopin Piano Sonatas 2 & 3, out now: https://benjamingrosvenor.lnk.to/ChopinSonatasID Credit: Benjamin Grosvenor
Schumann: Abendlied, Op. 85 No. 12 (Arr. Grosvenor)
Credit: 2023 Universal Music Operations Limited
Benjamin Grosvenor on Chopin's Piano Concertos
Credit: Philharmonia Orchestra
Liszt: Ave Maria, S. 558 (after Schubert, D. 839)
Credit: 2021 Universal Music Operations Limited
BBC Proms Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 - Philharmonia & Paavo Järvi
Credit: Joe Peters
News
Press
BBC Proms Solo Recital
Royal Albert HallJul 2023Grosvenor is the real deal
- The Financial Times
- 17 July 2023
Every note was clear, even as the conductor Ryan Bancroft romped through ever-faster tempos in the finale – and that also went for Grosvenor’s encore, the finale of Prokofiev’s Sonata No 7, three glorious minutes of ferocious edge-of-the-seat brilliance.
- The Guardian
- 18 August 2025
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester with Robin Ticciati (Busoni)
Berliner PhilharmonieFeb 2024Monumental and brilliant
- Tagesspiegel
- 25 February 2024
Benjamin Grosvenor Quartet
Queen Elisabeth HallOct 2024a five-star display of exhilarating musicianship
- The Times
- 21 October 2024
Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons (Grieg)
Boston Symphony HallNov 2024Grosvenor made effulgent, sometimes hypnotic, work of the concerto’s spades of notes. His tone was golden with articulations impeccably voiced … A display of pianism of the first order.
- Boston Classical Review
- 30 November 2024
Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Manze (Ravel)
Maison Symphonique de MontréalMay 2025The virtues of Grosvenor and Manze's electric Ravel were stylistic accuracy, playfulness… pianistic perfection, and the skilful embodiment and inclusion of jazz idioms.
- Le Devoir
- 02 May 2025






















