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…
Garrick Ohlsson returns from his European tour and performs in Washington DC on March 12, joined by the Takács Quartet. He then plays a recital in Philadelphia on March 13 followed by two performances in Asheville. The first Asheville performance, on March 19, also features the Takács Quartet; the second, on March 24, will be with the Asheville Symphony. He ends the month with three…
At the end of the month, Garrick Ohlsson heads to Europe for a tour of performances that will take him to the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany. On February 27, he appears at London’s Wigmore Hall, with a Brahms program ranging from the 1854 Ballades through to the 1878 Klavierstücke, with three sets of variations written in between. He then travels to Szczecin, Poland, where he plays…
On January 19 and 20, Garrick Ohlsson performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Boulder Philharmonic, first at the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall and then at the Performing Arts Complex at Pinnacle Charter School. The all-Russian program also includes Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prokofiev’s monumental Symphony No. 5. He then travels to Cleveland to play…
Garrick Ohlsson’s latest release on Hyperion, Brahms: Late Piano Works, features three of the last piano works Brahms composed: Fantasias, Op. 116, Intermezzos, Op. 117, and Clavierstücke, Op. 118, in addition to Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4, the first work he approved for publication when he was only 18 years old. This album will be released on December 28, 2018 for digital download…
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…