San Francisco Performances Presents - Pianist Garrick Ohlsson
Organization:
San Francisco Performances - 35th Anniversary Season
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
12/7/2014
End Date:
12/7/2014
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
San Francisco Performances continues its 35th season of "bringing great artists center stage" with the fourth presentation of pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The recital takes place Sunday, December 7, 7:00pm at SFJAZZ Center in the Miner Auditorium.
The Boston Globe enthused that, "Garrick Ohlsson is the most versatile of America's important pianists." Ohlsson's passionate and probing approach to the emotionally rich music of Scriabin is breath-taking, and these programs are an unusual opportunity to revel in a composer who bridged the Romantic and modern eras.
A native of White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music at 13 he entered The Juilliard School in New York City. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montreal 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. He makes his home in San Francisco.
Ohlsson and pianist Jerry Kuderna hold an on-stage conversation with musical examples on Scriabin on Saturday, December 6, 2:00pm, in the SFJAZZ Center Miner Auditorium. The lecture will be free of charge and by invitation only for all Dec 7th concert ticket holders.
The full program for December 7 is as follows:
SCRIABIN Prelude in A minor, Opus 11, No. 2 Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Opus 19 "Sonata-Fantasy" Two Etudes from Opus 8 No. 11 in B-flat minor No. 10 in D-flat Major Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, Opus 30 Sonata No. 7, Opus 64 "Messe blanche" Desir, Opus 57, No. 1 Sonata No. 6, Opus 62 Modere Two Etudes from Opus 42 No. 1 in D-flat Major No. 5 in C-sharp minor Fragilite, Opus 51, No. 1 Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Major, Opus 53
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