An artist hailed as the finest British pianist of his generation and “the real deal” will take the stage at the Snow Concert Hall next week.

Bursting on to the international stage in 2011, Benjamin Grosvenor was the youngest soloist to appear at the BBC Proms and in same year he signed to the Decca Classics label, the youngest British musician in history – and the first British pianist in nearly 60 years – to do so.

Since then, Grosvenor has won Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year, a Classical Brit Critics’ Award, the UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent, France’s Diapason d’Or Jeune Talent, and the New York Philharmonic’s Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize.

In 2023, Gramophone placed him among the Top 50 pianists ever recorded and Financial Times’ reviewer described him as “the real deal.”

His Canberra-exclusive program includes Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 (with its Funeral March), Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, a sound world of demons and dreams; and Mussorgsky’s mighty Pictures at an Exhibition, which culminates in the thunderous Great Gate of Kiev.

Benjamin Grosvenor, Snow Concert Hall, October 16.