ALBUMScriabin: Complete Poèmes for PianoGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMSchubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13, 16 & Wanderer FantasyGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMLutosławski: Opera Omnia, Vol. 6Tomasz Daroch, Garrick Ohlsson, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Jacek Kaspszyk
ALBUMDvořák: Complete Symphonies & ConcertosJiří Bělohlávek, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Garrick Ohlsson, Alisa Weilerstein & Frank Peter Zimmermann
ALBUMLiszt: Piano Works, Vol. 2 – Garrick Ohlsson EditionGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMCharles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano MusicGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMClose ConnectionsGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMGranados: Goyescas & Other Piano MusicGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMRachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Symphonic DancesGarrick Ohlsson, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Robert Spano
ALBUMHervig: Off Center - Hibbard: Handwork - Ziolek: Nocturnes - No. 16 (The University of Iowa Center for New Music 25Th Anniversary, 1966-1991)Maurita Murphy Mead, Michael Geary, Charles Wendt, Eric Ziolek, Garrick Ohlsson, David Greehoe, The University of Iowa Center for New Music Ensemble, Karen Bergquist, Marla Feeney, Alex Ross, Joseph Rovine, Robert Fuller & David Gompper
ALBUMHibbard: Parsons' Piece - String Quartet - Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Harp - Menage - Schickstuck - HandworkWilliam Parsons, Quartetto Stradivari, Motter Forman, Jon English, Charles West, William Hibbard, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Benjamin Hudson, Allan Dean, Steven Schick & Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMWeber: Complete Piano SonatasGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMLiszt: Piano Works, Vol. 1 – Garrick Ohlsson EditionGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMBrahms: Complete Variations for Solo PianoGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMGarrick Ohlsson Plays Beethoven in BellinghamBellingham Festival of Music, Garrick Ohlsson & Michael Palmer
ALBUMRachmaninoff, Mussorgsky & Prokofiev: Piano WorksGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMScriabin: Complete EtudesGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMWolpe: The Man from Midian, Violin SonataCameron Grant, Garrick Ohlsson, James Winn & Jorja Fleezanis
ALBUMJustin Dello Joio: 2 Concert Etudes, The March of Folly & Piano SonataGarrick Ohlsson, Jeremy Denk, Ani Kavafian & Carter Brey
ALBUMTchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18Garrick Ohlsson, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMJ.S. Bach & Handel: Piano WorksGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMShostakovich: Symphony No. 1 / Concerto / Age of GoldGarrick Ohlsson, Gilbert Levine, Maurice Murphy & The Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMChopin: Polonaises and Other Solo Piano WorksGarrick Ohlsson & Ronald Smith
ALBUMChopin: Preludes & NocturnesGarrick Ohlsson
ALBUMGrieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 - Piano Concerto, Op. 16 - Wedding Day At Troldhaugen, Op. 65Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMCopland: The ModernistMichael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony & Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMGrieg: Orchestral Works & Piano Works (Famous Classical Music)Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
ALBUMGershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris - Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story & On the TownEdo de Waart, Minnesota Orchestra & Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMBusoni: Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 39, BV 247Christoph von Dohnányi, Garrick Ohlsson, The Cleveland Orchestra & Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
ALBUMCharles Wuorinen: Works for Violin & PianoBenjamin Hudson & Garrick Ohlsson
ALBUMScriabin: Le poème de l'extase, Rêverie, Piano ConcertoGarrick Ohlsson, Libor Pešek & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
About Garrick Ohlsson
Artist Biography
An imposing physical presence at six feet four inches tall, with a reach of a 12th, Garrick Ohlsson is a pianist with a flawless technique, a strong grasp of form, and a clean, non-romanticized style of performing. Especially noted for his Chopin interpretations, Ohlsson has won several notable prizes and been described as a "bear-butterfly" of a pianist. So completely consumed with musical life, he has, when asked by an interviewer, been unable to remember what kind of car he drives.
Ohlsson was born in Bronxville, New York, on April 3, 1948. He began piano studies when he was eight years old, attending the Westchester Conservatory of Music. After he saw Rubinstein in concert, he told interviewer Michael Steinberg, his choice of career was set. "I was blasted into orbit. And that's when I said in my mind...when other little boys say, 'I want to be a fireman,' that's what I want to do." He entered the preparatory course of the Juilliard School when he was 13, where he studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki. He remained at Juilliard for his bachelor's degree in music (earned in 1971), studying with Rosina Lhévinne. Private studies with Olga Barabini, Irma Wolpe, and Claudio Arrau rounded out Ohlsson's education.
In 1966, he won the Busoni Competition in Italy, and in 1968, the Montreal Piano Competition. However, it was his 1970 victory in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw that launched his career. He was the first American winner, and his victory gained some of the same kind of attention as had Van Cliburn's Tchaikovsky Competition triumph a little over a decade earlier. Ohlsson has maintained a strong association with the music of Chopin and has played the master's complete piano works several times in recital and on recordings. His Chopin interpretations favor intense emotionalism over a languid, swooning salon style. Ohlsson is by no means exclusively a player of Chopin; his repertory extends from Haydn to the 21st century and includes more than 80 works for piano and orchestra.
He tours and appears as a guest soloist with orchestras around the world and has made over a dozen tours to Poland, where he continues to be particularly esteemed for his Chopin playing (he was given the Gloria Artis Gold Medal in 2018 by the Polish Deputy Culture Minister.) He is also an avid chamber performer and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Tokyo, and Tákacs quartets. With violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he founded the FOG Trio, based in San Francisco. During the 2002-2003 season, Ohlsson appeared as part of the Lincoln Center Great Performers series in New York, performing works by Busoni.
Ohlsson has recorded for a variety of labels, most notably Arabesque, Bridge, and Hyperion. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning the 2008 award for his 2006 Bridge release Beethoven: Sonatas, Vol. 3. He was heard on two albums in 2019: a Hyperion release of Brahms' music and a Fryderyk Chopin Institute release featuring Chopin's music.
Ohlsson was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize in 1994. In 1998, he won the Distinguished Artist Award from the University Musical Society, and in 2014, he received the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University.
Hometown
Bronxville, NY, United States
Genre
Classical
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