Benjamin Grosvenor

Grosvenor was born and brought up in Westcliff-on-Sea , Southend-on-Sea , Essex . He is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, and his mother Rebecca is a piano teacher by profession. Grosvenor began studying the piano with his mother at the age of five. He joined Westcliff High School for Boys in 2003. He now also took lessons from Hilary Coates and Christopher Elton in London. Grosvenor studied at the Royal Academy of Music , where he took musicianship classes with Daniel-Ben Pienaar and Julian Perkins . At his graduation as BMus in 2012 he received the Queen's Award for Excellence for the best all-round student of the year.

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