Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.
Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date, he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, the most recent being “Oceans Apart” by Justin Dello Joio commissioned for him by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and now available on Bridge Recordings. Also just released on Reference Recordings is the complete Beethoven concerti with Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra.
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Released today as an Apple Music Exclusive and available on other platforms from September 12 on, Garrick’s latest recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 with the Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst at its helm, is a gem not to be missed. It’s paired in this album with Mozart’s Symphony No. 29.
This August, Garrick Ohlsson appears at two major U.S. summer festivals, bringing his celebrated artistry to prominent works by Beethoven and Mozart. On August 3, he joins the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for the grand finale of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts’s 80th summer season, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15. Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of…
This May, Garrick Ohlsson appears in two distinct programs in the United States, one highlighting his collaborative work with orchestra and the other reflecting his deep and longstanding affinity for the solo piano music of Frédéric Chopin. On May 10, Mr. Ohlsson performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic at Auer Performance Hall in Indiana. Led by…
The Pianist: Conversations with Ohlsson is both an autobiography in interviews and a record of a life in music, including photographs and musical examples.
Conversations with the greatest pianists of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries is a new book series of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Garrick Ohlsson is the main character of the first book in the series, authored by Kamila Stępień-Kutera, who has an impressive resume in music theory and Polish philology, and a PhD from the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Pianist:…
Ohlsson’s virtuosity here isn’t speed or extremes of technique but rather exceptional clarity.
“Against any other recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, this live, spatial one with pianist Garrick Ohlsson at Severance Music Center – available Aug. 1 on Apple Classical and Sept. 12 on other platforms – surely holds its own. Indeed, with this recording, Ohlsson, Welser-Most, and the orchestra accomplish a rare feat, underscoring Mozart’s potent economy of expression, his…
