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…
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…