On November 11, Garrick Ohlsson plays in Warsaw, in a concert marking 100 years since Poland regained its sovereignty. Conductor Jacek Kaspszyk leads the orchestra, featuring Paderewski’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Penderecki’s Fanfara and Te Deum and Górecki’s Beatus Vir. Afterwards, he travels to Barcelona, where on November 16, 17, 18 he graces the stage of L’Auditori…
Polish Deputy Culture Minister Wanda Zwinogrodzka awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit to American pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Thursday. Ohlsson’s works co-create the piano history of the 20th and 21st centuries, said Deputy Director of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute Maciej Janicki. At the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw on…
Garrick Ohlsson has a busy fall season, performing several recitals and concerts in North America. He starts the month in Fresno, CA, where he plays a recital on September 14 before travelling to join the Baltimore Orchestra on September 21, 22 and 23. After another recital in Santa Cruz, CA, on September 30, he visits Charlotte, NC, to perform Beethoven’s piano concerto on October 5, 6 and…
Garrick Ohlsson will be in Canada in late summer taking a key role during the Honens’ International Piano Competition. He will be Honens’ 2018 Mentor-in-Residence, and on September 4, will delight audiences in a solo recital of Brahms and Chopin in the Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commens. The Honens’ International Piano Competition takes place every 3 years and will be held from…
This summer, Garrick Ohlsson graces the stages of three of the most renowned summer festivals in the United States: Tanglewood, Aspen and Ravinia. On July 27, he stars at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Juanjo Mena on the podium. The program includes the Four Sea Interludes from Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, and Brahms’s…
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson feels that Frederic Chopin was a brilliant intellect, but he thinks Chopin’s music is more about visceral feeling than intellectual understanding. On Thursday’s Performance Today, hear Ohlsson perform a Chopin scherzo from a concert in Fort Worth, Texas. Listen to it following on this link
The Busoni Piano Concerto that Garrick Ohlsson played alongside the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Sakari Oramo conducting is now available in their online archive. Click here to listen to it!