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Bringing together great sensitivity and commanding virtuosity, Grammy Award-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson remains the only American to have won the prestigious Chopin Competition. This weekend the renown pianist will be at The Wortham Center in the Cullen Theatre.

Ohlsson has mastered Chopin, the irresistible poet of the piano, a profound innovator who transformed solo piano music.

Ohlsson is a master of the intimate art of the solo recital. He has a powerful presence – very tall, and with one of the largest hand spans of any pianist – and a delicacy and finesse for which he’s famous.

[From Garrick Ohlsson.com]

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. 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. 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.