Garrick Ohlsson Plays Brahms – April 26, Bourgie Hall LiveEvents April 19, 2019 2540 GARRICK OHLSSON PLAYS BRAHMS – concert II Discover the depth of Brahms’ writing for piano under the hands of Garrick Ohlsson, a pianist of great elegance and prodigious. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is recognized worldwide as a pianist of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Chopin, he commands an enormous repertoire spanning the entire piano literature, and has come to be noted for his masterful performances of works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as a great many works from the Romantic repertoire. This season, Ohlsson embarks on an ambitious two-season-long project to explore the complete works for solo piano by Brahms, spread out over four different programs. The cycle will be performed in New York, San Francisco, and Montreal, with individual concerts given in London, Warsaw, and various cities across North America. An avid chamber musician, Garrick Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets, and in the spring will be touring with the Takács Quartet and the Boston Chamber Players in Istanbul, Berlin, Munich, Warsaw, Luxembourg, and Prague. Program BRAHMS Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 2 Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Intermezzi, Op. 117 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 2 Friday, April 26th 2019 at 7:30pm Duration: 1 Hrs 30 Min For tickets and information: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/concerts Subscribe to the series by phone: 514-285-2000, option 4, or 1-800-899-6873 Every day from 9 am to 5pm or in person at the ticket booth of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bourgie Concert Hall, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) complex, is a 444-seat venue located in the restored Erskine and American Church (designed in 1894 in Neo-Romanesque style by architect Alexander Cowper Hutchison). Designated a national historic site in 1998, the transformed setting is now graced with high-quality acoustics and an exceptional décor incorporating 20 historic Tiffany stained glass windows. Ideal for performances by chamber-music ensembles, string orchestras, and other groups, Bourgie Concert Hall offer music lovers an auditory repertoire as diverse as the MMFA collections Bourgie Concert Hall 1339 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2E8
