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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Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State University
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Logan, UT, United States
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
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Evanston, IL, United States
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
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Troy, NY, United States
Pereleman Theater, Kimmel Center
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Garrick Ohlsson’s upcoming performances are two recitals, on March 31 at Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall as part of Utah State’s Wassermann Piano Series, and on April 10 at Northwestern’s Galvin Recital Hall. The program features Beethoven’s Theme and Variations in F Major, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 8, Chopin’s Nocturne in F Major and his Piano Sonata No. 3 in…
Garrick Ohlsson reunites with violist Richard O’Neill, current member of the Takács Quartet, to perform a program of works by Schubert and Rachmaninoff. The tour will take them all the way from California to New York, starting on January 31 at the BroadStage in Santa Monica, followed by performances on February 3 at Cabell Hall Auditorium in Charlottesville, and February 6 and 7 at Ordway…
On January 23 and 24, Garrick Ohlsson will regale audiences with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 alongside the Grand Rapids Symphony and conductor Marcelo Lehninger on the podium. The evening will start with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 will be heard after the intermission.
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... gave this lengthy solo all its virtuosic edge, rolling through the many diminished seventh chords with dramatic flair and ending with florid trills.
“Ohlsson brought out the intimate characteristics of the piano writing, playing the many runs with distinct clarity in his still-agile fingers. In the development, where the keyboard mostly accompanies important lines in the orchestra, Ohlsson tended to move ahead, rather than yielding to what was happening around him. For the cadenza near the end of the first movement, Ohlsson played the…