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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Severance Hall
Cleveland, OH, United States
DeVos Performance Hall
Grand Rapids, MI, United States
BroadStage
Santa Monica, CA, United States
Cabell Hall Auditorium
Charlottesville, VA, United States
Garrick Ohlsson performs once again in Cleveland on October 30, November 1 and 2, bringing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 to the stage of Mandel Concert Hall. Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra also present a kaleidoscopic work by Tyler Taylor, the Orchestra’s new Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow, alongside Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, a vibrant homage to the sights and…
Garrick and Ben are about to fly to Warsaw. But before they do, this is your chance to ask them anything! Join the Reddit piano community this Saturday to submit your questions: /piano Welcome to the video livestream companion to Garrick & Ben’s Reddit AMA! The “Ask Me Anything” will begin on 9/27 at 4:00pm US Eastern with TEXT ONLY on r/piano. Then at 4:30PM US Eastern…
For two concerts, on September 19 and 20, Garrick Ohlsson performs Rachmaninoff’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2, one of his most emotionally charged compositions, paired in this program with Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4. Keitaro Harada leads the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.
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…