With his vast and profoundly explorative approach to repertoire, as well as extraordinary technical facility, the American virtuoso has long been established as one of the greatest pianists of our time, able to encompass not only the established repertoire but a wide range of more unusual musical material which he has consistently championed. ‘What a sound!’, exclaimed The Seattle Times. ‘Ohlsson is famous for that sonority, though he never seems to be working very hard to produce it … an incredible technique with razor-sharp accuracy.’ His programme includes a recent piece by an increasingly prominent young Australian composer whose work Garrick Ohlsson has taken up.

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Garrick Ohlsson piano

Wigmore Hall

In 1970, Ohlsson became the first, and remains the only, competitor from the United States to win the gold medal awarded by the International Chopin Piano Competition. Since that triumphant win, he has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Ohlsson has been long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin. Program to incude Barber, Haydn, Chopin, and a work written for him by Tom Misson.

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