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If Benjamin Grosvenor were a wine, his tasting notes might read something like: “an outstanding early vintage, this is already a fine, well-balanced red, with subtlety of flavour. Can be quaffed now though should mature exceedingly well.

As part of Birmingham’s International Concert Season, there’s a series of lunchtime performances from rising stars, entitled “Bright Futures”.

Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been much in the news lately: the recipient of two Gramophone Awards (Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Award for his debut disc), and winner of the Critics’ Award at the 2012 Classic Brits. And he’s in great demand as a performer, if his diary is anything to go by.