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Garrick Ohlsson
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Garrick Ohlsson

pianist

Since 1948

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Garrick Olaf Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948) is an American classical pianist. In 1970, he became the first competitor from the United States to win the gold medal awarded by the International Chopin Piano Competition, at the VIII competition. He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Italy, and the Montreal Piano Competition in Canada. He was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ohlsson has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning one in 2008.

In 2018, in Warsaw, Ohlsson received the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, conferred by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

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Garrick Ohlsson, né le 3 avril 1948 à New York, est un pianiste américain, vainqueur du concours Busoni en 1966 et du concours Chopin en 1970.

Dans les années 1990 et 2000, il contribue à la réhabilitation du compositeur italien Ferruccio Busoni.

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