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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As the 2017 Koussevitzky Artist of the Year, Mr. Ohlsson will perform in a total of five concerts at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. The first, on July 26, will be with the Takács Quartet. Based in Boulder, Colorado, this group of musicians tours widely to great critical acclaim. Now in its fourty-third season, the Takács Quartet was hailed by the New York…
Mr. Ohlsson performs in five concerts at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts on July 26. Honored as the Tanglewood 2017 Koussevitzky Artist, he first performance is with the world-renowned Takács Quartet. The Tanglewood Festival was founded in 1936 as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has a long tradition of inviting prestigious artists from…
A program of Brahms, Scriabin, and Schubert will be presented at the Music & Beyond summer festival in Ottawa, Canada on July 8. Performing in a solo recital, this is Mr. Ohlsson’s second time in the city this year. In February, he performed a Brahms program with the VSO. Mr. Ohlsson’s admiration for this German composer dates back to when he was just nine years old. In a recent…
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.…
