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Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. 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 (and remains the single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation.
Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date, he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him.
Mr. Ohlsson’s 2024 season includes concerti with the Cleveland, Nashville, and Atlanta Symphonies, orchestras in Singapore, Prague, Warsaw, Lyon, and Oxford (UK), and recitals in New York, Seattle, Baltimore, Prague, Katowice, Krakow and Wrocław. Since winning the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Ohlsson has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland, where he retains immense personal popularity.
