Benjamin Grosvenor
Benjamin Grosvenor was born in Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom on July 8th, 1992 and is the Pianist. At the age of 31, Benjamin Grosvenor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a British classical pianist.
Education
Grosvenor was born and brought up in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, and his mother Rebecca is a piano teacher by profession. Grosvenor began studying the piano with his mother at the age of five. He joined Westcliff High School for Boys in 2003. He now also took lessons from Hilary Coates and Christopher Elton in London. Grosvenor studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he had musicianship classes with Daniel-Ben Pienaar and Julian Perkins. At his graduation as BMus in 2012 he received the Queen's Award for Excellence for the best all-round student of the year.
Performance career
Grosvenor gave his first complete recital at a local church in May 2003, playing both the piano and the cello. He made his first concert appearance with orchestra playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the same year. The Westcliff Sinfonia has 21 people on board. He went on to win the BBC Young Musician keyboard section in 2004, performing Ravel's Concerto in G in the concerto final. St George's, Bristol, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Usher Hall, and Symphony Hall were among the first concerts he attended.
Since then, he has enjoyed a high-profile international career. Grosvenor has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Gürzenich Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bentley Symphony Orchestra, Bentley Symphony Orchestra, Boca de Lima, and many others.
Grosvenor participated in the BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme in 2010, which he completed in 2012. He made his debut on television Proms in the summer of 2011 as the youngest soloist on opening night, appearing Liszt's Second Piano Concerto and Britten's Piano Concerto later in the National Youth Orchestra's collection. He has appeared at the Proms many times in the past, as well as at the Last Night of the festival in 2015. Day Breaking Shadows Flee for Grosvenor, Judith Weir's solo piano work, made its world premiere in September 2014. With the New York Philharmonic in 2016, he became the inaugural recipient of the Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize.
He was announced Artist-in-Residence at Radio France and then with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the 2021 season.