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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.

Benjamin is based in London

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Contact

Laura Baker

Laura Baker

Senior Artist Manager
Chiara Fahy-Spada

Chiara Fahy-Spada

Assistant Artist Manager

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

Oct 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Nov 2025
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Manfred Honeck (conductor) Orchestra Filharmonica della Scala
Nov 2025
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 Ali-Zadeh: Habil Sajahy for cello and prepared piano Wallen: Dervish Franck: Sonata in A, arr. for cello and piano Kian Soltani (cello)
Nov 2025
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Yoel Gamzou (conductor) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dec 2025
Carnegie Hall, New York
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Mar 2026
Symphony Center, Chicago
Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor for piano Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight' Schumann: Fantasie in C Op.17 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Mar 2026
Musikverein, Vienna
Strauss: Piano Quartet Op. 13 Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 Timothy Ridout (viola) Kian Soltani (cello) Hyeyoon Park (violin)
Jun 2026
Royal Festival Hall, London
Strauss: Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 11 Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor) Philharmonia Orchestra

News

Press

  • BBC Proms Solo Recital

    Royal Albert Hall
    Jul 2023
    • Grosvenor is the real deal

    • 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.

  • Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester with Robin Ticciati (Busoni)

    Berliner Philharmonie
    Feb 2024
  • Benjamin Grosvenor Quartet

    Queen Elisabeth Hall
    Oct 2024
    • a five-star display of exhilarating musicianship

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons (Grieg)

    Boston Symphony Hall
    Nov 2024
    • Grosvenor 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.

  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Manze (Ravel)

    Maison Symphonique de Montréal
    May 2025
    • The virtues of Grosvenor and Manze's electric Ravel were stylistic accuracy, playfulness… pianistic perfection, and the skilful embodiment and inclusion of jazz idioms.