Piano
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 long 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. He has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire.
Mr. Ohlsson’s 2026-27 season consists of returns to the San Francisco, Denver, Baltimore, Montreal, Houston, and Madison Symphonies, culminating in a spring appearance with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at 92Y in New York where he will play and direct both Chopin concerti. In solo recital, he can be heard in Cleveland, Toronto, Nashville, Kingston (ON), College Park (MD), and Seattle. Mr. Ohlsson’s recording with the Takacs Quartet of the Elgar and Amy Beach piano quintets won Gramophone’s 2021 Classical Music Award in the Chamber category. His ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, for Bridge Records, has garnered critical acclaim, including a GRAMMY for Vol. 3. In November 2026, his set of Complete Works of Chopin will be re-released.
Mr. Ohlsson won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition and the 1968 Montréal Piano Competition. In 1970, he was the first American to win the Gold Medal at the International Chopin Competition and in 2025, was selected to chair the jury for the 19th incarnation of the Competition.
