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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Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
Vail, CO, United States
Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, CO, United States
Shalin Liu Performance Center
ME, United States
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
Ottowa, ON, Canada
Mr. Ohlsson travels to Colorado for a performance on June 28 with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the prestigious Bravo! Vail Festival. Founded in 1987, this outdoor festival celebrates classical music, music education and a lifelong appreciation of the arts. This year, Mr. Ohlsson performs on an all-Tchaikovsky program, featuring the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and and Symphony No. 4.…
On Friday, June 23, the Brevard Music Center Festival hosts Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Keith Lockhart on a programme highlighting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1. The event, the opening night of the Festival’s season, begins at 6pm and will be held at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium – purchase tickets here. Mr. Ohlsson will donate the entirety…
On June 9, 10 & 11 Garrick Ohlsson returns to Davies Symphony Hall in concert with the San Francisco Symphony. Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the programme, which includes Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Mr. Ohlsson as soloist, and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring).
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.…