There’s much to savor in Rachmaninov’s stirring Symphonic Dances: an alto saxophone and pulsating percussion in the first; a dark, eerie waltz in the second; and Russian Orthodox chants, tubular bells and the composer’s go-to Dies irae in the last. On March 6, 7 and 8, Garrick Ohlsson’s virtuosity will be on full display joining the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Barber’s breathtaking…
In the second half of February, Garrick Ohlsson collaborates with Musica Viva, the largest presenter of chamber music in the world, playing recitals all over Australia. Program One, which Mr. Ohlsson presents in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne Weekday, Perth, and Sydney, opens with the engaging work Beethoven regarded as the best of his own early sonatas, followed by Prokofiev’s gripping first…
Hazard Chase Garrick Ohlsson has won the International Ambassador of Czech Music award at the 2019 Prague Classic Awards. It is the only award exclusively intended for laureates of non-Czech origin who have displayed continued support of Czech classical music abroad. Ohlsson will appear at the ceremony to receive his award this evening at Prague’s Municipal House. The event will be broadcast…
On January 22, 23 and 26 at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Garrick Ohlsson performs with the Hallé Orchestra, bringing his penetrating insight to Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody, which is renowned for the lush romanticism of its 18th variation. Also on the program are Sibelius’ Swan of Tuonela and Lemminkäinen’s Return, as well as Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka. He then travels…
This upcoming month, Garrick Ohlsson travels to Lyon to play a Brahms and Chopin recital at the Salle Molière on December 4, followed by a concert on December 6 in Tallinn with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, in which he plays Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Also included in the program are Szpilman’s Little Overture, Musgrave’s Song of the Enchanter and…
On November 2 Garrick Ohlsson joins the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra for Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, a pillar of the Romantic repertoire. The program also includes works by two of Brahms’ contemporaries, Overture, Scherzo and Finale by Robert Schumann and Die schöne Melusine by Mendelssohn. He then plays a Brahms and Chopin recital on November 8 at the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts in…
On October 1, Garrick Ohlsson returns to Seattle’s Meany Center with a program of Brahms and Chopin. He then performs with the Santa Rosa Symphony at Rohnert Park, California, on October 5, 6 and 7 , where he interprets Beethoven’s mesmerizing Fourth Piano Concerto, a work that begins with understated sweetness and gentle lyricism and builds to a shimmering and exultant climax. The…