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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On December 1, Garrick Ohlsson joins Maestro Gerard Schwarz and the Palm Beach Symphony for a captivating performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, the composer’s final piano concerto. Mr. Ohlsson has garnered great acclaim for his interpretation of this heroic work, with The New York Times proclaiming “The ‘Emperor’ Concerto could have been…
This October, Garrick Ohlsson will appear as a guest soloist with the renowned Apollon Musagète Quartet in a tour across the United States. Mr. Ohlsson will perform a variety of acclaimed repertoire with the group, from selections of J.S Bach’s The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 to Dimitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57. See below for the dates and locations of the…
Most pianists will learn one Brahms piece. Some pianists will learn a whole Brahms Opus. Garrick Ohlsson will learn every piece Brahms ever wrote, and he’ll perform them all from memory in under a week. Join Garrick Ohlsson for a dive into Brahms’s solo piano music. Having recently performed the cycle at Tanglewood, the composers’ Intermezzi, Rhapsodies, Sonatas, and Variations are all…
Ohlsson played with an intense tenderness, striking the keys with finality but also gently.
Ohlsson played with an intense tenderness, striking the keys with finality but also gently. […] Ohlsson’s lullaby encore, the second movement to Beethoven’s “Pathetique” piano sonata, was a fitting end to a long-needed reunion. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ohlsson is justly acclaimed as a titanic force at the keyboard.
“Ohlsson is justly acclaimed as a titanic force at the keyboard. At moments over the years, listeners have practically needed seatbelts. On this occasion, however, he was a subtle presence, a weaver of gossamer musical fabrics and a wellspring of humble and seemingly effortless virtuosity. He approached the concerto not as a solo showpiece but rather as an outsized work of chamber music. At…
