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Garrick Ohlsson A frequent guest with the orchestras in New Zealand

Piano and Australia, Ohlsson returned for a nine-city recital
tour across Australia in June 2023 and opened the
Nashville Symphony’s season in September, followed
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin during the season by appearances with orchestras in
International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Atlanta, Sarasota, Rhode Island, Singapore, Prague,
Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a Warsaw, Lyon and Oxford (UK). With recital programs
musician of magisterial interpretive and technical including works from Beethoven, Schubert,
prowess. Although long regarded as one of the Chopin to Brahms and Scriabin he can be heard
world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric in New York, Seattle, Baltimore, Prague, Katowice,
Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, Krakow and Wrocław.
which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student
of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be An avid chamber musician, Ohlsson has collaborated
noted for his masterly performances of the works with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo and Takács
of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Quartet string quartets. His recording with the latter
Romantic repertoire. To date he has at his command of the Amy Beach and Elgar quintets released by
more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Hyperion in June 2020 received great press attention.
Mozart to works of the 21 century, the most recent Passionate about singing and singers, Ohlsson has
st
being Oceans Apart by Justin Dello Joio commissioned appeared in recital with such legendary artists as
for him by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and now Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman and Ewa Podleś.
available on Bridge Records. Also just released on Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor
Reference Recordings is the complete Beethoven Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch
concerti with Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Records, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels.
Teton Music Festival Orchestra. His 10-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas,

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