Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Benjamin Grosvenor, the most distinguished figure in the British classical music industry, needs no introduction.  He is returning to Breinton for the sixth time; in fact, in recent years he has been coming to us every season when he has a new recital programme.  There are no other music societies as privileged as us!  

For this recital, his programme juxtaposes Beethoven’s Moonlight and Chopin’s Funeral March sonatas, two of the best known compositions in the repertoire, with pieces that reveal fascinating perspectives on each.  

"Benjamin Grosvenor’s Chopin is undoubtedly of the highest class," wrote Gramophone recently in its review.

Tickets

Tickets will be on sale from Saturday 1 August 2026 at £23 each. Seats in our recital room are limited, so please book early to be sure of yours.

• Mozart

  • Piano Sonata No. 13, K333

• Beethoven

  • Moonlight Sonata No. 14

• Liszt

  • Three Petrarch Sonnets

• Chopin

  • PIano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"

Acclaimed and multi-award winning British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is renowned for his 'indisputable virtuosity' and understated elegance at the keyboard and appears on the world's most prestigious stages. During his 2025/26 season, Benjamin debuts with the Swedish Radio (Beethoven 1), performs Ravel’s G major Concerto with Filharmonica della Scala, San Diego Symphony, CBSO and Orchestre Svizzera Italiana.

He closes the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 80th anniversary season with a UK tour of Strauss’s Burleske within the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary celebrations, before touring Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.1 with the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon, including at the Cheltenham Festival. He also returns to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam for his debut performance with John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London.

Recital highlights this season include Carnegie Hall, Chicago, Amsterdam, Singapore and London. He makes his debut at Berlin’s Boulez Saal with Kian Soltani and at Vienna’s Muzikverein and Heidelberger Frühling with his Piano Quartet featuring Hyeyoon Park, Timothy Ridout and Kian Soltani.

Previous concerto engagements have included Cleveland, Boston Symphony, NHK Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Orchestre National de France. Benjamin performs with all the major UK orchestras and regularly appears at the BBC Proms, most recently with Ravel G major (2025) and Busoni (2024), and has also performed a solo recital and at the First and Last Nights.

Benjamin’s recent conductor collaborations include Marin Alsop, Elim Chan, Edward Gardner, Manfred Honneck, Paavo Jarvi, Nathalie Stutzmann, Krzysztof Urbanski and Kazuki Yamada.

A celebrated recitalist, recent engagements have included Berliner Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Lucerne and at Klavierfest Ruhr, Mantaa and La Roque d’Anthéron Festivals. He was a featured artist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and in 2024 premiered Hommage à Liszt by Brett Dean - which was commissioned for him - in Lucerne, Chicago and London.

Benjamin's impressive discography on Decca Classics stretches back to 2011, with his most recent release of solo repertoire by Chopin described by International Piano Magazine Critic’s Choice as an 'Altogether revelatory experience'.

• Tickets must be booked in advance through this website; prices are shown when you book
• Seats are guaranteed but not reserved — sit wherever you like
• Drinks and light refreshments at the interval are included in your ticket
• Parking at the house is free, from 7.00 pm; doors open at 7.15 pm and the music begins at 7.30 pm
• Ticket prices broadly cover our musicians' fees — a voluntary donation helps us keep the recitals going
• We are at Breinton, Heath House Road, Woking GU22 0RD — get directions here.