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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Garrick Ohlsson performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”, with the Shippensburg Festival Symphony in Pennsylvania on July 21, on the occasion of the orchestra’s 50th Anniversary. Also on the program that evening is Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. He then departs on a tour with the National Youth Orchestra of China under the leadership of conductor Ludovic…
This May, Garrick Ohlsson departs on a tour with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players that takes them to five countries. The program will vary by location. Tour dates May 9 İş Sanat Culture Center, Istanbul May 11 Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin May 12 Herkulessaal der Residenz München, Munich May 14 Warsaw Philharmonic, Warsaw May 15 Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg City May 16 Rudolfinum…
On April 12 and 14, Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Leonard Slatkin return to the Heinz Hall stage in Pittsburgh to mark the occasion of Slatkin’s 75th birthday. Ohlsson completes the season-long Rachmaninoff Cycle performing the virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 4, full of jazzy melodies inspired by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Slatkin leads the Pittsburgh premiere of his own original composition…
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.…
