GARRICK OHLSSON, PIANO
A RECITAL to benefit
HOFF-BARTHELSON MUSIC SCHOOL
SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 • 3:00 PM
1:00 pm Luncheon and Conversations withWQXR's Robert Sherman
3:00 pm Recital
4:30 pm Cocktail Reception
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is known worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although he has long been regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire which ranges over the entire piano literature. His concerto repertoire alone is unusually wide and eclectic -- ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century -- and to date he has at his command more than 80 concertos. Mr. Ohlsson is also an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takács and Tokyo string quartets, among other ensembles. He is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. His ten-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas for Bridge Records has garnered considerable critical praise, including a Grammy for Vol. 3. The English label Hyperion has released his 16-disc set of the complete works of Chopin, a disc of all the Brahms piano variations, and a two-disc set of Carl Maria von Weber's four piano sonatas.
A native of White Plains, Mr. Ohlsson entered The Juilliard School in New York City at the age of 13. His musical development was influenced by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montréal Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal, that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI. He makes his home in San Francisco.
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