Oregon Symphony: Chopin & Alpine Symphony

Oregon Symphony

Saturday, September 21, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, United States

$25-$132

Garrick Ohlsson, piano
David Danzmayr, conductor

Frédéric Chopin — Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Richard Strauss — Eine Alpensinfonie ("An Alpine Symphony"), Op. 64

Inspired by his own adventures in the Alps, Strauss' An Alpine Symphony evokes nature's power and majesty in a journey through crashing waterfalls, misty meadows, and furious storms. And Portland favorite Garrick Ohlsson leads an equally intense journey of the heart in Chopin's First Piano Concerto, channeling the work's melancholy grace with "a sound so lush it almost glistens" (Seattle Times).

Runs Sept. 21-23.

About Oregon Symphony

https://www.orsymphony.org/

About Garrick Ohlsson, piano

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.

http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/garrick-ohlsson