On December 1, Garrick Ohlsson joins Maestro Gerard Schwarz and the Palm Beach Symphony for a captivating performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, the composer’s final piano concerto. Mr. Ohlsson has garnered great acclaim for his interpretation of this heroic work, with The New York Times proclaiming “The ‘Emperor’ Concerto could have been…
This October, Garrick Ohlsson will appear as a guest soloist with the renowned Apollon Musagète Quartet in a tour across the United States. Mr. Ohlsson will perform a variety of acclaimed repertoire with the group, from selections of J.S Bach’s The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 to Dimitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57. See below for the dates and locations of the…
Most pianists will learn one Brahms piece. Some pianists will learn a whole Brahms Opus. Garrick Ohlsson will learn every piece Brahms ever wrote, and he’ll perform them all from memory in under a week. Join Garrick Ohlsson for a dive into Brahms’s solo piano music. Having recently performed the cycle at Tanglewood, the composers’ Intermezzi, Rhapsodies, Sonatas, and Variations are all…
On September 3, Garrick Ohlsson will return to the Ravinia Festival for a thrilling concert featuring the Music of the Baroque ensemble under the baton of their music director, Dame Jane Glover. Mr. Ohlsson has been seen at the festival numerous times in the past, with his appearance last year marking the 40th anniversary of his Ravinia debut. Mr. Ohlsson will be featured in Mozart’s…
This August, Garrick Ohlsson will return to Tanglewood for four enthralling concerts featuring the entire repertory for piano of the revered composer, Johannes Brahms. Mr. Ohlsson has had a close bond with the festival, having first performed there in 1971 and returning for regular performances. Equally close is his relationship with the composer to whom these concerts are dedicated to, with the…
On May 25, 27 and 28, Garrick Ohlsson will make his highly celebrated return to Toronto to play Beethoven’s magnificent Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall. The first half of the program will feature two exciting world premieres by Canadian composers, with the first being Mithrā: Celebration Prelude by Afarin Mansouri and the other being…
Conversations with the greatest pianists of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries is a new book series of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Garrick Ohlsson is the main character of the first book in the series, authored by Kamila Stępień-Kutera, who has an impressive resume in music theory and Polish philology, and a PhD from the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Pianist:…