Garrick Ohlsson
AUG 1

“Ohlsson gave us a chance to see his technical mastery, care for detail, disciplined musical discernment and, above all, his glowing, finely calibrated sound, whether in limpid cantabile passages or in moments of shattering tempest.” – Sydney Morning Herald (July 2010)

SPAC welcomes back Garrick Ohlsson!

“I’m thrilled to be returning to SPAC to open the orchestra season playing Tchaikovsky’s First concerto. I vividly remember my first performance at SPAC in 1971, 40 years ago!  Many of the beautiful tall trees that we musicians see from the stage had only recently been planted, and were only a few feet tall. It is a pleasure to observe the growth of this wonderful festival, and always an honor to return.”

Garrick is performing Opening Night of the Orchestra, Aug 1.

About Garrick

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself 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. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. 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.