Perennially loved by Bay Area audiences, Garrick Ohlsson returns to complete his two-year survey of Brahms' complete solo piano works.
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Frederic Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him. This season that vast repertoire can be sampled in concerti ranging from Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Barber and Busoni in cities including St. Louis, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Prague, Stockholm, Wroclaw and Strasbourg. In recital he can be heard in New York's Tully Hall, Seattle, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. At the invitation of Music Director Krzysztof Urbanski he will appear twice during the season with the Indianapolis Symphony-first playing two Prokofiev concerti in a weekend in which all five will be programmed, and returning later in the season with Tchaikovsky's beloved Concerto No. 1.
A frequent guest with the orchestras in Australia, Mr. Ohlsson has recently visited Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart as well as the New Zealand Symphony in Wellington and Auckland. Passionate about singing and singers, Mr. Ohlsson has appeared in recital with such legendary artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podles.