#Garrick Ohlsson

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Pianist Terence Yung has been hailed as "a brilliant young artist" with "powerhouse virtuosity," "felt musicianship" and "a real gift for communication in performance." Mr. Yung has appeared throughout the United States as a recitalist, in chamber music concerts, as soloist with orchestras, including performances in New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle and Houston, as well as abroad in Spain and France. His international honors include top prizes at the Puigcerdà International Music Competition in Spain and the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition in New York City.

Notable venues include Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center of Performing Arts (Philadelphia), Benaroya Hall (Seattle), the Teatro d Puigcerdá, the Grand Opera House (Delaware), the Juilliard School (New York City), Steinway Hall, Yamaha Salon, the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In the United States and abroad, Mr. Yung has performed at music festivals including the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York City), the Puigcerdà International Music Festival (Spain), the International Piano Festival (Houston), and the Adirondack International Music Festival in upstate New York.

Terence, who grew up in the United States, studied privately with Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute of Music before entering the Juilliard School's pre-college program in New York City at the age of thirteen, where he was a pupil of Frank Lévy and Martin Canin (the teaching assistant of Rosina Lhévinne).He continued his studies with Abbey Simon at the Moores School of Music in Houston, where he holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. He also holds a prestigious Diplôme from the Académie Internationale d'Eté de Nice, where he studied with Michel Béroff and Philippe Entremont, and he took lessons informally with Susan Starr, Lang Lang, Garrick Ohlsson, and Horacio Gutierrez.

Mr. Yung has been highly committed to the education and outreach of classical music. His work with outreach organizations has made a difference for the underprivileged children of inner-city Houston through the gift of music. He has served on the piano faculties of the Yellowstone Academy and the University of Houston Moores School of Music Preparatory and Continuing Studies. His involvements with community organizations include frequent collaborations with the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia. Terence Yung has been a subject of interviews by Ming Pao Daily News, the Global Chinese Times, and French public news as an outstanding young pianist from Hong Kong.

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Garrick Ohlsson

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«Conversaciones con Arrau», de Joseph Horowitz

Suele ocurrir en Chile que se valoren más afuera que adentro las figuras importantes que ha dado el país, y Claudio Arrau no es la excepción: mientras que en el extranjero es reconocido como uno de los pianistas más importantes del siglo pasado, aquí la mayoría de la gente ni siquiera sabría decir qué instrumento tocaba. Y esto da lástima no solo porque fuese un excelso músico y una gran persona, sino también porque, a pesar de vivir la mayor parte de su vida en Europa y Estados Unidos, siempre guardó un cariño especial por los chilenos y por su tierra natal. Como yo no soy tan ingrato, me he tomado el tiempo para leer Conversaciones con Arrau de Joseph Horowitz, que me parece que es la mayor fuente disponible para conocerlo.

Este libro, tan interesante como informativo, se me ha hecho tan entretenido que lo terminé de leer en dos días. Su biografía, su técnica, sus interpretaciones y sus intereses: todos los aspectos de su vida son tratados en estos diálogos con mucha más profundidad de lo que se tratan en cualquiera de las entrevistas que se pueden ver en YouTube. Horowitz, además de reunir las conversaciones que mantuvo el maestro, también incluyó las entrevistas que les hizo a cuarto importantes discípulos y colegas suyos (Philip Lorenz, Garrick Ohlsson, Daniel Barenboim y Colin Davis) y algunos cuantos artículos, entre los que se incluye uno escrito por el mismo Arrau. Mientras que para los entendidos en música clásica serán valiosas las interpretaciones que hace sobre algunas obras de Liszt o los comentarios más técnicos en los que entran en las últimas conversaciones, los que no estamos tan puestos en ella al menos podremos conocer con bastante detalle cómo fue la vida de un hombre que se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a la música (llegó a practicar catorce horas al día) y que por ello (y por el talento innato con el que nació, claro) alcanzó una técnica que le dio fama en todo el mundo. Pero la música no fue lo único en la vida de Arrau: políglota que leía latín y griego antiguo, coleccionista de antigüedades, interesado en la literatura, en la pintura (tenía un Bassano y un van Dyck en su casa), en la escultura, en la poesía y en el cine; era, pues, uno de esos hombres completos que inspiran y que ya cada vez se encuentran menos. Todo esto, sin embargo, no le impedía ser una persona de una calidez y de una humildad entrañable, que es el otro aspecto que siempre me ha producido admiración. «Una persona más o menos decente y con una cierta fundación ética. Y que creo que en mi vida no he hecho cosas horripilantes», fue lo que contestó cuando en una entrevista le pidieron que se describiese. ¡Gran pianista y gran ser humano!

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there's this interview with garrick ohlsson where he points out that chopin's melodies are not singable as such, but that they suggest singing, they are themselves a sort of stylization of song. I think the same is true, in a very different way, of the best poetry

I think one of the more compelling things about poetry is that the poem is fundamentally sort of a weird aesthetic object

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Liszt’s Annees de pelerinage III, S. 163: No. 4, Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este, as performed by Garrick Ohlsson

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March 4: Today’s Music History

March 4: Today’s Music History

  March Forth is also known as Marching Music Day.  Find out more at https://www.maryo.co/march-forth-fourth/ Today is also  National Grammar Day. . 1678 ~ Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer. The creator of hundreds of spirited, extroverted instrumental works, Vivaldi is widely recognized as the master of the Baroque instrumental concerto, which he perfected and popularized perhaps…

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Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) - Ballade No. 1 in g-minor, Op. 23. Performed by Garrick Ohlsson, Érard piano.

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Last week, just about every major museum and cultural institution in NYC announced that it would temporarily close to try to limit the spread of coronavirus. That included the Metropolitan Opera, who said that all performances have been canceled through at least March 31st. Now, these places are starting to think about ways to adapt to our radically different cultural landscape—and the Met Opera will begin streaming encore presentations from their award-winning Live in HD series on the company website for the duration of the closure.

All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours.

“We’d like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times,” said Met General Manager Peter Gelb. “Every night, we’ll be offering a different complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years.” Lincoln Center has suspended all public performances and screenings through the month of March, as well.

Here's the schedule for this week:

Monday, March 16 – Bizet’s Carmen (Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010.)

Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini’s La Bohème (Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008.)

Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi’s Il Trovatore (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015.)

Thursday, March 19 – Verdi’s La Traviata (Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018.)

Friday, March 20 – Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008.)

Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009.)

Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007.)

The 92Y, which has also temporarily suspended all of its events, is livestreaming for free two classical musical concerts originally scheduled for this week. Garrick Ohlsson performed a solo recital, without an audience, on Saturday which you can rewatch anytime. And on March 18th at 7:30 p.m., 92Y will livestream a recital, also without an audience, by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, accompanied by a pianist to be announced, performing Mahler and Beethoven. They also plan to have livestreams of other upcoming concerts and lectures, including "pianist Jonathan Biss performing Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas, and lectures on world politics and the global drama of 2020 with renowned foreign affairs scholar Professor Ralph Buultjens."

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Beethoven’s Fifth Recaptures Its Elemental Fire

Beethoven’s Fifth Recaptures Its Elemental Fire

Review:  Beethoven’s Fifth By Perry Tannenbaum

Meeting an anticipated demand, Charlotte Symphony is programming their 2018-19 season opener, Beethoven’s Fifth, for three concerts instead of the usual two – and meeting subscribers’ hopes, they’re playing it beautifully. Leading off their season with an all-Beethoven program, music director Christopher Warren-Green and his ensemble weren’t exactly…

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Press Release: GRAMMY Winner Garrick Ohlsson Debuts with New West Symphony

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – April 17, 2017) — GRAMMY Award® winner Garrick Ohlsson makes his New West Symphony debut performing Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto with the New West Symphony. Guest Conductor Fawzi Haimor will also lead the orchestra in Rossini’s Overture to La Scala di Seta and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. Performances will be held on May 11-13, 2017 in Santa Monica, Oxnard and Thousand Oaks.

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Ohlsson is the only American to have won the International Chopin Competition, and he is well known for his huge repertoire and mastery of the works of Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. He won a GRAMMY® Award in 2008 for his recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas, and he has received many other prestigious awards including the Avery Fisher Prize, first prize in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, first prize in the Montreal Piano Competition, and the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.

Fawzi Haimor has been recently announced as Music Director Designate of Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Haimor recently completed his tenure as Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Haimor has recently made debuts with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and New Mexico Philharmonic among others. He earned bachelor’s degrees in both music and neurobiology, a master’s degree in conducting from the University of California-Davis, and a second master’s in instrumental conducting at Indiana University.

“It’s a great pleasure to be conducting ‘Emperor’ with Garrick Ohlsson,” said guest conductor Fawzi Haimor. “In a world filled with so many amazing pianists, Garrick is a visionary. I’m also very excited to perform Haydn’s Symphony 104. Haydn’s compositions create an opportunity for the conductor to put their own personal stamp on the piece so this will be a very special and unique performance. The Overture to La scala di seta is also a great piece with a lot of virtuosic parts for the oboe and provides a platform to showcase the amazing talents of the New West Symphony orchestra.”

Performances will be held on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 8pm at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica (1310 11th St); Friday, May 12, 2017 at 8pm at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center (800 Hobson Way); and Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 8pm at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza (2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd.). Tickets are $30-$120 and are available at www.newwestsymphony.org or by calling (866) 776-8400.

Concerto No. 5 for Piano and Orchestra in E-flat major, Op. 73, “Emperor” by Ludwig van Beethoven

The “Emperor” is the largest in scale of all Beethoven’s concertos, and the last one he would finish. The Concerto No. 5 was composed in 1809 amidst an invasion by Napoleon that left Beethoven with a profound sense of misery. In spite of the unpromising circumstances that surrounded its composition, the majestic “Emperor” Concerto is a virtuosic piece with full chordal textures and a wide dynamic range that make it one of the most difficult concertos ever written.

Overture to La scala di seta by Gioacchino Rossini

La scala di seta (“The Silken Ladder”) is a one-act comic farce composed in 1812 that deals with the complications of a secret marriage in which the secret husband Dorvil uses the silken ladder of the opera's title to climb to the chamber of his wife, Giulia. It is no wonder that this miniature masterwork has continued to be a popular piece in modern concert repertoire as Rossini’s orchestral ingenuity sparkles throughout the Overture to La scala di seta, with a bubbling main theme and ending with whirling high spirits and festive brilliance.

Symphony No. 104 in D major, “London” by Joseph Haydn

The magisterial symphonies Haydn composed for his two visits to England were the first compositions made after his release from his three decades of work for the Esterházy family in 1790. Haydn made two astoundingly productive trips to England, composing six symphonies from January 1791 to June 1792, and six more symphonies during his visit in February 1794, which also lasted for a year and a half. The last of the works that Haydn composed there, the “London” Symphony opens with perhaps the most solemn introduction to be found anywhere in Haydn’s instrumental works, with stern, unison, minor-mode proclamations of open intervals alternating with hushed passages of deeply affective harmonies. It has been suggested that the Andante’s strong expression of turbulent emotional territory was Haydn’s musical elegy to his departed friend and colleague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died in 1791.

About the New West Symphony

Founded in 1995, the New West Symphony is a professional orchestra that draws its players from the rich talent pool of professional Los Angeles-area musicians. The Symphony is the resident company of the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, and Barnum Hall in Santa Monica.  It presents six Masterpiece Series concerts annually, performing major works from the symphonic repertoire with internationally-acclaimed artists as guest soloists.  It also provides quality outreach and educational opportunities for the communities it serves through its annual Symphonic Adventures concert programs for youth, its traveling Music Van, and its New West Symphony Harmony Project of Ventura. More information is available at www.newwestsymphony.org or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/newwestsymphony.

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Currently listening to 'Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 no.2' by Garrick Ohlsson on AccuRadio.com

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The World of Piano Competitions – issue 2 2021

As a collaborating partner Piano Street is proud to present the sixth issue of The World of Piano Competitions, a magazine initiated by PIANIST Magazine (Netherlands and Germany) and its Editor-in-Chief Eric Schoones. Here we get a rich insight into the world of international piano competitions through the eyes of its producers and participants.

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Contributing Editors: Gustav Alink (Alink-Argerich Foundation), Gerrit Glaner (Steinway), Patrick Jovell (Piano Street), Florian Riem (WFIMC).

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Piano Street is happy to share the sixth issue of WOPC with our readers free of charge: The-World-of-Piano-Competitions-issue-2-2021.pdf

Content

Interviews Alexander Gadjiev | Chopin and the ungraspable Anton Gerzenberg | Balancing act Sa Chen | Opening to the future Garrick Ohlsson | Working with a millipede

Competition Report 18th Chopin Competition Warsaw Liszt Competition Budapest MozART in Aachen

In Profile Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn 10th Intern. Franz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar – Bayreuth Geneva International Music Competition Kayserburg International Youth Piano Competition Internationaler Schimmel Klavierwettbewerb Memorijal Jurica Murai & Murai Grand Prix International Brahms Piano Competition Detmold International Schubert Competition International Paderewski Piano Competition International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival | U.S.A. XII Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition Schumann Competition 2021 Düsseldorf

Behind the Scenes WFIMC | Agenda and News Géza Anda 1921–1976 | All honour to the music Victoria Hall The Concert Technician | Backbone of a Piano Competition The Paderewski Music Association

The Piano Fazioli’s 40th Anniversary The Kayserburg Étoile Collection of Exotic Woods Pianists and Piano Brands | Mutual Love, Admiration and Fascination The Chris Maene Straight-Strung Concert Grand Piano

Background

The piano enjoys a tremendous popularity worldwide and has the universal quality to be able to communicate through cultures, history and geographical borders. The value of piano competitions cannot be overestimated in terms of focus on the piano as an instrument and piano playing. The competition industry engages a multiplicity of concerns including hi-end piano manufacturing, media coverage and broadcast, repertoire spotlight and pedagogy, concert and lecture production and not least, career opportunity and exposure for laureates and non-laureates. All this contributes to a richer cultural life and can powerfully promote the aim we all share: to spread the joy and riches of the art of piano playing.

”Piano music, especially live, is incomparable and can be a great source of joy for players and listeners. We all should strive to allow as many people benefit from it as possible. For that, this edition of The World of Piano Competition is an excellent form of encouragement. I hope its message spreads widely! I wish everyone much joy reading it and, later on, attending a concert!” — Guido Zimmermann, President Steinway & Sons Europe

THE WORLD OF PIANO COMPETITIONS is published twice a year by PIANIST, as a part of the regular edition, and also worldwide as a separate magazine.

PIANIST (regular edition) is published four times a year in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Belgium. www.pianist-magazin.de www.pianistmagazine.nl

from Piano Street’s Classical Piano News https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/piano-news/the-world-of-piano-competitions-issue-2-2021-11294/

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 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presents "Beethoven’s Emperor"

 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presents “Beethoven’s Emperor”

 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presents “Beethoven’s Emperor”   Featuring: Garrick Ohlsson, piano.   Carlos Kalmar, conducts  https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/beethovens-emperor Click the image for more!  On: October 14 – 17, 2021.  At: Morton H. Mayerson Symphony Center.  Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”. Shostakovich Symphony No. 6.  Nicknamed the “Emperor”, Beethoven’s last…

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The Preliminary Round of the Chopin XVIII International Competition in Poland

The Preliminary Round of the Chopin XVIII International Competition in Poland

Every five years, Chopin’s Polish homeland hosts an International Competition in Warsaw that includes many illustrious names in its roster of winners: Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Alexei Sultanov, Krystian Zimerman, among others. The event was first initiated in 1927. This year Maestra Argerich is one of the judges on a panel that will hear entrants reaching beyond the competition…