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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At the end of the month, Garrick Ohlsson heads to Europe for a tour of performances that will take him to the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany. On February 27, he appears at London’s Wigmore Hall, with a Brahms program ranging from the 1854 Ballades through to the 1878 Klavierstücke, with three sets of variations written in between. He then travels to Szczecin, Poland, where he plays…
On January 19 and 20, Garrick Ohlsson performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Boulder Philharmonic, first at the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall and then at the Performing Arts Complex at Pinnacle Charter School. The all-Russian program also includes Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prokofiev’s monumental Symphony No. 5. He then travels to Cleveland to play…
Garrick Ohlsson’s latest release on Hyperion, Brahms: Late Piano Works, features three of the last piano works Brahms composed: Fantasias, Op. 116, Intermezzos, Op. 117, and Clavierstücke, Op. 118, in addition to Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4, the first work he approved for publication when he was only 18 years old. This album will be released on December 28, 2018 for digital download…
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.…
