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  Garrick Ohlsson bio - Bank of America Celebrity Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire.
Ohlsson is guest soloist in Paris with the Orchestre National de France under Kurt Masur, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, also under Kurt Masur, at London's Royal Festival Hall; and with the Czech Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, the NHK Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
Ohlsson was guest soloist with the Chicago Symphony (at Ravinia), the National Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony.
www.celebrityseries.org /06_PRESS/G_Ohlsson_bio.htm   (891 words)

  
 Garrick Ohlsson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson is noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire.
Ohlsson’s concerto repertoire alone is unusually wide and eclectic— ranging from Haydn and Mozart to 20th-century masters—and to date he has at his command some 80 works for piano and orchestra.
Garrick Ohlsson’s current season includes performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and a North American tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
www.cincinnatisymphony.org /Musicians/GuestArtists/Ohlsson.asp   (475 words)

  
  The Cleveland Chamber Music Society - Our 57th Season of World-Class Chamber Music
Ohlsson is guest soloist in Paris with the Orchestre National de France under Kurt Masur, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, also under Kurt Masur, at London's Royal Festival Hall; and with the Czech Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, the NHK Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
Ohlsson was featured by Lincoln Center's Great Performers in "Busoni at the Keyboard," a three-recital series at Alice Tully Hall, which presented the piano music of Busoni, in the company of works by Bach and Liszt.
Ohlsson was guest soloist with the Chicago Symphony (at Ravinia), the National Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony.
www.clevelandchambermusic.org /20061107-garrick.html   (927 words)

  
 Garrick Ohlsson Recital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson was born in White Plains, New York where he began his piano studies at the age of eight.
Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Ohlsson is an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takacs, and Tokyo String Quartets, among other ensembles.
www.rockefeller.edu /pubinfo/ohlssonprogram.html   (360 words)

  
 ICM - International Creative Management, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire.
Ohlsson performed in North America with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Berkeley, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.; and the National Arts Centre, St. Paul Chamber, and the London Philharmonic at Lincoln Center.
Ohlsson is an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takács and Tokyo string quartets, among other ensembles.
www.icmtalent.com /musperf/profiles/60193.html   (595 words)

  
 Greg Sandow -- Garrick Ohlsson, Liszt, and Bach
Greg Sandow -- Garrick Ohlsson, Liszt, and Bach
Ohlsson is giving as part of Lincoln Center's "Great Performers" series, but the first was more gripping if only because it showed that Liszt -- at least in some of his more popular works --isn't wholly a classical composer.
Ohlsson is a thoughtful and resounding pianist, one who lets music grow almost like organic life, from the ringing depths of his Bosendorfer grand.
www.gregsandow.com /ohlsson.htm   (1051 words)

  
 Kimmel Center Blog - Garrick Ohlsson, piano, April 9th
Ohlsson is widely regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of...
Kimmel Center Presents is fortunate and grateful that pianist Garrick Ohlsson is able to perform this afternoon.
Ohlsson is widely regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of Chopin; he was the first American to win at the International Chopin Competition.
blog.kimmelcenter.org /archives/2006/04/garrick_ohlsson.html   (168 words)

  
 Press Release: Pianist Garrick Ohlsson in recital, Sat., February 10, 2007, 8pm, NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Garrick Ohlsson was born in White Plains, New York, where he began his piano studies at the age of eight.
Ohlsson has garnered much critical acclaim with his historic recital cycles of the complete works of the Polish master, which he performed in North America during the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons and in Europe during the 1997-98 season.
Ohlsson launched a series entitled “Franz Liszt and the Art of the Piano,” presented as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers, where he was heard in three recitals at Alice Tully Hall performing the music of Liszt and his musical influences.
www.celebrityseries.org /06_PRESS/GOhlsson_Rel.htm   (740 words)

  
 Pianist Garrick Ohlsson takes on Beethoven's 32 sonatas at Tanglewood in eight programs - The Boston Globe
Ohlsson took stock of what he knew by heart -- about 26 of the sonatas -- and whether he might be able to learn the remaining six to his liking.
If Ohlsson did it there, the BSO would be turning over half of the typical 15- or 16-recital schedule to one artist.
At the end of the two-hour class, they approach Ohlsson, who is standing at the front of the room, sweat spots soaking through his golf shirt.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/14/marathon_man   (1052 words)

  
 NPR : Garrick Ohlsson: How to Make a Piano Sing
Sooner or later, you'll blow a gasket." World-renowned pianist Garrick Ohlsson calls this the best advice he got when he was a teenager: "It's better to get plenty of sleep and not enough practice.
Ohlsson launched his career in 1970 with a spectacular Gold Medal performance at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Ohlsson is the featured soloist for the 40th anniversary gala opening of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583419   (362 words)

  
 AfricasGateway.com - Store - Garrick Ohlsson: The Complete Chopin Piano Works Vol. 10 - Etudes
Ohlsson has obviously made a profound study of this music (which he plays with a few interesting textual variants), and he brings out expressive elements and inner voices.
Garrick Ohlsson's rendition of the Etudes is nothing short of miraculous.
Ohlsson succesfully combines the often exclusive elements of lightness of touch combined with extreme speed, accuracy and exceptional artistry without pathos.
www.africasgateway.com /amazon-buy-B00000DCQR.html   (588 words)

  
 Garrick Ohlsson to Perform Oct. 6 at UW-Eau Claire
Garrick Ohlsson, world-renowned American pianist and Boesendorfer artist, will perform music by Bach, Liszt and Chopin at his Artist Series concert on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Ohlsson gained worldwide accolades for his sold-out series of performances of the complete solo works of Chopin — a historic accomplishment which he also traversed over eight volumes on the Arabesque label.
Garrick Ohlsson was born in White Plains, N.Y., where he began his piano studies at the age of 8.
www.uwec.edu /newsbureau/release/past/1998/98-09/91698ohlsson.html   (698 words)

  
 RECITAL REVIEW: Great Growth, Artistry But In The Big Pieces By Mack McCray (Garrick Ohlsson, November 21, 1999)
Nonethless, it must be reported that the sold-out hall was rapturous throughout the evening, and it is easy to see why: Garrick Ohlsson is one of our most dependable artists, powerful, accurate, absolutely clear in the message he is sending, never neurotic or veiled or cunning,and spectacularly virtuosic.
Ohlsson toyed with them relentlessly, albeit artistically, until almost every piece became confessional and dramatic in nature, equal in weight to every other piece.
It was as if Ohlsson's demon (the masterful cat toying with the music) could be suppressed if he was busy enough, as in the coda of the ballade, the nocturnes, or the sonata.
www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/ohlsson_11_23_99.php   (767 words)

  
 RECITAL REVIEW: All-Chopin, All-Ohlsson By John McCarthy (Garrick Ohlsson, February 25, 2001)
Garrick Ohlsson's all-Chopin program at Davies Symphony Hall on Sunday ranged from the epic to the intimate.
Ohlsson's focus on the large sweep of the music made for a compelling performance, especially in the second Polonaise.
Ohlsson's shocking, assault-like intensity at each stretto in the B Major Nocturne, Op.
www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/ohlsson_2_27_01.php   (592 words)

  
 Fairfield University :: Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, giant of the keyboards, to perform at the Quick Center
Ohlsson, who at 6'4" has a commanding presence on stage, has established himself as a musician of tremendous vigor and exquisite interpretive power.
Ohlsson has dedicated many performances to Chopin, who many consider composed the greatest music written for the piano.
Tickets for Garrick Ohlsson range from $30 to $24, depending on seating and discounts are also offered for senior citizens and children.
www.fairfield.edu /x5324.xml   (421 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Garrick Ohlsson: The Complete Chopin Piano Works Vol. 2 - Preludes: Music: Fryderyk Chopin,Garrick Ohlsson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson's penchant for risk-taking, for delineating hidden voices and melodies, for boldly and passionately stating the most unique musical positions relative to Chopin's compositions.
Ohlsson elsewhere--- may seem a trivial concern, but it really does compromise the integrity--- the aesthetic "wholeness"--- of one's conception of a set purported to be the "complete" Preludes.
Ohlsson does that convincingly - the desolute quality of number two, the whirling frantic nature of the f#minor is wonderful.
www.amazon.com /Garrick-Ohlsson-Complete-Chopin-Preludes/dp/B000000T80   (1333 words)

  
 Michigan Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After pianist Garrick Ohlsson played a recent recital in New York's Lincoln Center, he fielded questions from the audience.
Ohlsson is an acknowledged expert on the 19th century Romantic composer.
Ohlsson means this, and plans to repeat the cycle in London and is scheduling to play it in several other European cities.
www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1996/mar/03-15-96/arts/garrick.ohlsson.html   (492 words)

  
 Master Pianist Garrick Ohlsson Visits Lafayette's Williams Center Nov. 11
Ohlsson will perform Beethoven's Sonatas #26 and #32 and three works by Rachmaninoff, Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, the Prelude in C-sharp minor, and the Prelude in G minor.
Ohlsson's repertoire ranges from Haydn and Mozart to 20th century masters, and he has at his command some 70 works for piano and orchestra.
Ohlsson was born in White Plains, N.Y., where he began his piano studies at the age of eight.
www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/1984   (853 words)

  
 Garrick Ohlsson - The Complete Chopin Piano Works Vol. 1 ~ Sonatas - Arabesque Recordings - Product Details - USA :: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ohlsson does a great job articulating things very nicely, and uses both the subtlety and the power that Chopin requires in ways that many other pianists do not.
Ohlsson is a superb pianist and interpreter of Chopin.
Ohlsson had done a remarkable job of maintaining a high level of musicianship and consistency of interpretation throughout the series.
www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-B000000T7Z-locale-us.html   (688 words)

  
 News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Garrick Ohlsson is regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Frederic Chopin.
Ohlsson is an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takacs, and Tokyo string quartets and he is a founding member of the San Francisco based FOG Trio.
A native of White Plains, New York, Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, and entered the Juilliard School at 13.
www.phoenixsymphony.org /about/2005-02-GarrickOhlsson.htm   (566 words)

  
 Saint Paul Sunday: Garrick Ohlsson
Ohlsson's concerto repertoire is unusually wide and eclectic -- ranging from Haydn and Mozart to 20th century masters --and he has at his command some 80 works for piano and orchestra.
Ohlsson frequently performs at summer festivals such as the Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Riverbend, Blossom and Bellingham music festivals.
Ohlsson was born in White Plains, New York, where he began his piano studies at the age of eight.
saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /artists/ohlsson   (447 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: With Garrick Ohlsson, there's always something new
Now Ohlsson is scheduled to return to Meany Theater, the scene of many past triumphs, for the second program of the 2006-07 President's Piano Series at 8 p.m.
Ohlsson is a big guy, and when he sits down to the keyboard, he asserts a total mastery over the keyboard that cuts a 9-foot concert grand right down to size.
Ohlsson, who grew up in White Plains, N.Y., discovered the piano at 8 and at 13 was already at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2003434501_conc17.html   (672 words)

  
 Ohlsson
Born in Bronxville, New York in 1948, Garrick Ohlsson came to international prominence in 1970 when he won the gold medal at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland, although by then he had already won first prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montreal Piano Competition.
In Spring 1994, Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize, and in Spring 1998, he was named Ford Honoree Artist by the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
Garrick Ohlsson appears through arrangement with Arts Management Group, Inc., 150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 830, New York, New York 10011.
www.columbuschambermusic.org /99-00_Season/ohlsson.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Garrick Ohlsson Edition
Bridge Records is proud to announce the signing of Garrick Ohlsson for a series of recordings to be released in 2006.
Garrick Ohlsson is regarded as one of the great virtuosi currently performing on the international concert circuit.
Garrick Ohlsson can also be heard playing the music of Charles Wuorinen on BRIDGE 9008
www.bridgerecords.com /pages/catalog/9193.htm   (211 words)

  
 Beethoven Sonatas, Volume 2
Bridge Records is pleased to be releasing the second of a series of Garrick Ohlsson Beethoven Sonata discs as part of its new Garrick Ohlsson Edition.
Garrick Ohlsson’s readings are full of the virtuosity and passion that have marked his live performances of these works.
Garrick Ohlsson is widely regarded as one of the great virtuosi currently performing on the international concert stage.
www.bridgerecords.com /pages/catalog/9201.htm   (296 words)

  
 Mondavi Center > Events > Garrick Ohlsson, piano
A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire.
Highlights of Ohlsson’s 2004–05 season included performances with Orpheus at Carnegie Hall and with the Emerson String Quartet at Zankel Hall, and a tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in North America.
In recent seasons Ohlsson has performed recital series devoted to the original music and transcriptions of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Busoni; he has also commissioned and premiered a new work for solo piano, American Berserk by John Adams, and a piano concerto by the noted young composer Michael Hersch.
www.mondaviarts.org /events/event.cfm?supplemental_unique_id=215&event_id=106&supplemental=general   (636 words)

  
 Michigan Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Unlike Ohlsson's previous five Ann Arbor concerts in his series of Chopin's complete solo piano music, the finale was held in Hill Auditorium.
Fading from one etude to the next, Ohlsson coaxed countless colors, nuances and dynamics -- ranging from stormy to imperceptibly soft -- from the piano.
But as Ohlsson has shown over the last two seasons, Chopin was a composer with a lot to say.
www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1996/mar/03-18-96/arts/garrick.ohlsson.html   (474 words)

  
 Mostly Mozart Festival: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Piano, and Russell Thomas, Tenor
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of interpretive and technical prowess.
Ohlsson played the longest of the three cadenzas Beethoven wrote for the first movement.
All of Ohlsson’s softer playing was breathtaking: meltingly beautiful, in both fast and slow movements.
www.robertaonthearts.com /id440.html   (1283 words)

  
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