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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Starting on April 5, Garrick Ohlsson departs on a European concert and recital tour that takes him to Sweden, Poland, Germany and France. For more information, click on the links below: April 5 – Stockolm – Busoni’s Piano Concerto April 11 – Wrocław – Recital featuring works by Beethoven, Skriabin and Schubert April 13 – Wrocław – Barber’s Piano…
Host Rik Malone presents Garrick Ohlsson playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto on “Tuesday Night” at 8pm PT. The performance took place on February 8 and will be broadcast on February 20. Click here for more information.
This Saturday, 19 of January at 8pm, Garrick Ohlsson’s concert with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is set to be livestreamed from the Hilbert Circle Theatre. For more information and updates, visit the Facebook event.
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.…
