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…
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…