Garrick Ohlsson Program Guide | June 2023

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From the Artistic Director © Darren Leigh Roberts In recent correspondence about this and that with the wonderful young Perth pianist Jude Holland, we inevitably landed on Garrick Ohlsson. ‘I went a couple of years ago to hear him – his Chopin was mesmerising,’ Jude wrote. Indeed it was – as it was over 50 years ago when he picked up First Prize in the 1970 Chopin Competition, five years after Martha Argerich had done the same. Those competition performances launched a dazzling career that has defined Garrick as one of the great pianists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Those who attended Garrick’s tour for Musica Viva Australia in February/March 2020 – ill winds almost upon us – responded pretty much as Jude did. We didn’t know then how much we’d be starved of such artistry in the years to come, yet even so we recognised the magic in the air. I really wanted to cauterize those years of misfortune; bookending them with tours by Garrick seemed the best way of doing so. I jokingly told Garrick that Liszt’s B minor Sonata was a young man’s game, when he said he’d like to program it; he quickly raised me one by saying that he’d also like to program Samuel Barber’s Piano Sonata, another punishing mountain to climb. Pairing him with the young Australian composer Thomas Misson for a new work commissioned by Stephen Johns in honour of his wife Michele’s birthday has been the icing on this rich, exquisite cake! Paul Kildea Artistic Director Musica Viva Australia 03
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