Benjamin Grosvenor at University Hall

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University Hall, Nottingham Trent University
Wednesday 26 January 2022 | 7pm
£5 - £25

Head to University Hall for a mesmerising evening of music from British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.

Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op.16
Albéniz: Iberia Book 1
Ravel: La Valse

Benjamin first came to prominence as the outstanding winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, and was invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the 2011 BBC Proms aged just nineteen.

A pianist of widespread international acclaim, he was announced Artist-in-Residence at Radio France for the 2020-21 season, and holds the same title also with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, he became the inaugural recipient of The Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize with the New York Philharmonic.

During his sensational career to date, Benjamin has received Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Awards, a Classic Brits Critics' Award, UK Critics' Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent and a Diapason d'Or Jeune Talent Award.

'He commands the stage with aristocratic ease…Mr Grosvenor makes you sigh with joy… A temperament rare in yesteryear, let alone now.' – David Allen, The New York Times

**** "Grosvenor's ever-gracious virtuosity was muscular, capitalising fully on the sensitivity of touch of a modern grand piano." – The Guardian, September 2021

***** "The sheer naturalness of Grosvenor's playing gilds the experience of listening to him at every moment. One enjoys it the way one enjoys the sight of a dolphin swimming, or a master of Chinese calligraphy executing a character with three quick but perfect strokes" – The Telegraph, April 2021