Spotlight Chamber Concerts: Benjamin Grosvenor and Hyeyoon Park

This winter Spotlight Chamber Concerts returns to the ‘beautifully restored church of St John’s Waterloo’ (Observer). Five world class classical music concerts offer an intense, immersive experience of live music, with dramatic lighting centred only on the performers, and the audience in the dark and in the round.

This series opens with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and his duo partner, violinist Hyeyoon Park, in Vaughan Williams’s Lark Ascending (originally for piano and violin), alongside Takemitsu’s Distance de fée and Grieg’s fiery Violin Sonata No 3.

Since winning the Keyboard section of the 2004 BBC Young Musician competition, aged 11, Benjamin Grosvenor has become ‘a world class performer’ (The Guardian), described as ‘a genius who has reached the height of his interpretative powers in his early thirties and intends to stay there’ (The Spectator). Hyeyoon Park’s playing is ‘breathtaking’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and as a duo their performances are ‘flawless’ and ‘spine tingling’ (The Guardian).