Garrick Ohlsson to Join Faculty of San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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Garrick Ohlsson to Join Faculty of
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the appointment of Grammy Award-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson to its faculty. Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Conservatory in 2016, Ohlsson joins current SFCM piano department faculty members Yoshikazu Nagai (Chair), Jon Nakamatsu, Paul Hersh, Sharon Mann, and Corey McVicar. Ohlsson will begin teaching a studio comprised of graduate students at SFCM in Fall 2018. He will also engage in piano department activities including forums, master classes, and recitals as well as interdepartmental collaborations. Ohlsson will be a featured performer at SFCM’s Centennial Gala on March 19, 2018.
“Garrick Ohlsson is a rare individual,” says SFCM President David H. Stull. “His inspirational work as an artist is only matched by his stunning capacity as a teacher. Garrick brings a humanity and empathy to his work that liberates the unique voice of each person fortunate enough to study with him. I am honored and thrilled to welcome him to our faculty and look forward to his many contributions to our school.”
“I’m very excited to join SFCM’s piano faculty next fall,” says Garrick Ohlsson. “Now is a particularly rewarding time at SFCM with its outstanding growth and the increasingly high level of music-making among the students. I’ve done many master classes, there and elsewhere, which have allowed only short amounts of time with students. Taking on full-time students will be much more in depth, and, I hope, even more rewarding. I was enriched by great teachers and wish to impart a little knowledge, one-on-one, of what I received and what I have developed in the ensuing years.”
A recipient of such prestigious awards as the Avery Fisher Prize and top prizes at the International Chopin Piano Competition (still the only American to have ever been awarded the Gold Medal), Busoni Competition, and Montreal Competition, Garrick Ohlsson is regarded as one of the world’s premier pianists performing today. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, 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. He won a Grammy for the third volume of his ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas released on Bridge Records. He can also be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion, and Virgin Classics labels.
Ohlsson is considered one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin and frequently performs works from by composers from a range of musical eras including Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Barber, and many more. He has collaborated with such eminent chamber ensembles as the Cleveland, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets and has performed with the most recognized orchestras in the world’s cultural capitals.
Garrick Ohlsson makes his home in San Francisco.

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About the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Founded in 1917, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is the oldest conservatory in the American West and has earned an international reputation for producing musicians of the highest caliber. Its faculty includes nearly 30 members of the San Francisco Symphony as well as Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning artists in the fields of orchestral and chamber performance and classical guitar. The Conservatory offers its 400-plus collegiate students fully accredited bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in composition and instrumental and vocal performance. SFCM was the first institution of its kind to offer world-class graduate degree programs in chamber music and classical guitar. Its Pre-College Division provides exceptionally high standards of musical excellence and personal attention to more than 200 younger students. SFCM faculty and students give nearly 500 public performances each year, most of which are offered to the public at no charge. Its community outreach programs serve over 1,600 school children and over 6,000 members of the wider community. Notable alumni include violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, soprano Elza van den Heever, Blue Bottle Coffee founder James Freeman and Ronald Losby, President, Steinway & Sons – Americas, among others. The Conservatory’s Civic Center facility is an architectural and acoustical masterwork, and the Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall was lauded by The New York Times as the “most enticing classical-music setting” in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit www.sfcm.edu.

 

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