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, many commissioned for him.
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Koussevitzky Music Shed, Tanglewood Festival
Lenox, MA, United States
Benedict Music Tent
Aspen, CO, USA
Ravinia Festival
Ravinia Park, IL, United States
Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons
Alberta, Canada
This summer, Garrick Ohlsson graces the stages of three of the most renowned summer festivals in the United States: Tanglewood, Aspen and Ravinia. On July 27, he stars at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Juanjo Mena on the podium. The program includes the Four Sea Interludes from Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, and Brahms’s…
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson feels that Frederic Chopin was a brilliant intellect, but he thinks Chopin’s music is more about visceral feeling than intellectual understanding. On Thursday’s Performance Today, hear Ohlsson perform a Chopin scherzo from a concert in Fort Worth, Texas. Listen to it following on this link
The Busoni Piano Concerto that Garrick Ohlsson played alongside the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Sakari Oramo conducting is now available in their online archive. Click here to listen to it!
Ohlsson, a Seattle favorite, gave his sixteenth appearance at Meany Hall and played razor-sharp renditions of Chopin, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Enrique Granados and more.
Tuesday night marked the sixteenth appearance in the Meany Theater for internationally renowned pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Judging from the rapturous response of the large audience, Seattle is definitely ready for a seventeenth. When Ohlsson arrives to play the President’s Piano Series, it’s always a special occasion, and Tuesday evening’s program was especially tasty: a great Beethoven…
His traversal of the solo part was magnificently eagle-like, powerful and steady yet ready to swoop on the incidental details. The American pianist approached the monumental side of the work with seeming effortlessness, but his playing was also full of refinement.
Concert of the year? It’s impossible to think of a more interesting musical event over the last 12 months than the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s final Barbican programme for 2014. No other British orchestra has recently offered anything as stimulating as this ambitious concert, which in many places showed the BBCSO to be playing at an exhilarating new level with its chief conductor, Sakari Oramo.…