Already established at age 17 as one of the most gifted and sought-after young pianists in the world, Benjamin Grosvenor made his Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall debuts aged 13, playing the Ravel G major and Chopin F minor concertos. Benjamin first came to prominence as the outstanding winner age 11 of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition. Enthusiastically received debuts at London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall and Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall followed, with the Daily Telegraph writing that his Mozart Concerto K.415 'was a colourist's dream, with rich dark hues and sparkling fanciful figurations'.

In recent years EMI Classics have supported Benjamin through an innovative development agreement. In 2008, Benjamin recorded a mixed recital of shorter works for B&W. This recording has now been released on a CD entitled This and That to overwhelming acclaim, with Gramophone exclaiming 'the performances by Benjamin Grosvenor exhibit a skill and talent not heard since Kissin's legendary teenage Russian debut' and International Piano commenting 'It is hard to know which is the more startling in a pianist still in his mid-teens: the all-encompassing mastery of technique, or the flair and maturity of imagination. He really is a rare talent'.

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