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…
Garrick Ohlsson starts his 2019-20 season performances with a recital on September 8 in Fresno, where he plays Brahms’ Two Rhapsodies, Seven Fantasies, Variations on a Theme by Paganini, and Sonata in F Minor. He then moves on to Nashville, where on September 12, 13 and 14 he joins Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony to open a spectacular new season with Barber’s…
Garrick Ohlsson performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”, with the Shippensburg Festival Symphony in Pennsylvania on July 21, on the occasion of the orchestra’s 50th Anniversary. Also on the program that evening is Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. He then departs on a tour with the National Youth Orchestra of China under the leadership of conductor Ludovic…