It is difficult not to notice the youthfulness of the face greeting us on stage (especially in comparison to the, shall we say, more weather-worn ones in the audience). But Benjamin Grosvenor has come a long way from the eleven-year-old that won the BBC Young Musician of the Year piano final in 2004. Now aged 21, Grosvenor is on a mission to prove that he is not only a prodigy, but also a mature and thought-provoking artist.
This might explain his unusual programme….
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