SEATTLE SYMPHONY REBROADCASTS ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM FEATURING PIANIST GARRICK OHLSSON THIS WEEK
DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS BRAHMS FEATURING GARRICK OHLSSON
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, AT 7:30 P.M. PDT
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, AT 8 P.M. PDT
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, AT 2 P.M. PDT
Music Director Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Seattle Symphony and pianist Garrick Ohlsson in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 on April 4, 2019 at Benaroya Hall. Photo by Brandon Patoc.
Seattle, WA – The Seattle Symphony announces a special rebroadcast of previous concerts that feature works by Johannes Brahms on April 16, 18 and 19, 2020. Conducted by Music Director Thomas Dausgaard, the program includes Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 1 and Symphony No. 2: Allegro con spirito, performed live on January 25, 2018. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson’s April 4, 2019 performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1: Rondo: Allegro non troppo follows.
In the Seattle Symphony’s original January 25, 2018 performance of Hungarian Dance No. 1 and Symphony No. 2, Dausgaard led “the entire program without a score, sustained a level of intensely focused collaboration with the players that resulted in a consistently animated evening of music-making and left no room for a sense of the routine to tarnish its pleasures” (The Seattle Times).
Meanwhile Ohlsson brings to his performance “no histrionics, no flailing or thumping or grandstanding, just an incredible technique with razor-sharp accuracy, producing a sound so lush it almost glistens” (The Seattle Times).
Audiences can tune in on YouTube or Facebook during the three regular broadcast times: Thursday (7:30 p.m. PDT), Saturday (8 p.m. PDT) and Sunday (2 p.m. PDT).
Dausgaard leads the Seattle Symphony in Brahms Symphony No. 2 on January 25, 2018 at Benaroya Hall. Photo by Brandon Patoc.
As announced in March, the Seattle Symphony continues to share additional free livestreams and rebroadcasts weekly until the orchestra can return to the Benaroya Hall stage, in hopes that these performances provide strength, comfort and joy. Yesterday, the orchestra also announced additional education and family programming, totaling five Seattle Symphony broadcasts this week. Programming updates will be shared at seattlesymphony.org/live. Those interested can also sign up to receive email notifications about upcoming Seattle Symphony rebroadcasts and livestreams.
Inspired by the orchestra’s dedication to serving the community, more than 2,700 donors have stepped forward with a gift since the closure of Benaroya Hall. These funds launch the Seattle Symphony Future Fund, providing critical resources to ensure a bright future for symphonic music in our community. To learn more about how to support the Seattle Symphony or to make a donation, visit seattlesymphony.org/give. The Seattle Symphony looks forward to welcoming audiences back to Benaroya Hall again very soon and wishes everyone health and comfort in the coming weeks.
THOMAS DAUSGAARD | MUSIC DIRECTOR
Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard is esteemed for his creativity and innovative programming, the excitement of his live performances and his extensive catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings. A renowned recording artist with over 70 discs to his name, Dausgaard’s releases with the Seattle Symphony have garnered critical acclaim resulting in international honors including a 2017 Gramophone Award nomination for Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 (Deryck Cooke version), Gramophone’s 2018 Orchestra of the Year Award, and a 2019 Best Orchestral Performance Grammy nomination for Nielsen’s Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4. An avid champion of contemporary works and the music of his homeland, Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony will release the much-anticipated cycle of symphonies by Carl Nielsen.
Performing internationally with many of the world’s leading orchestras, Dausgaard is also the Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Laureate of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Honorary Conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
Dausgaard has been awarded the Cross of Chivalry by the Queen of Denmark and elected to the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden.
GARRICK OHLSSON | PIANO
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 Frederic Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. 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. In the 2018–2019 season he launched an ambitious project spread over two seasons exploring the complete solo piano works of Brahms in four different programs. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo and Takacs string quartets, including most recently Boston Chamber Players on tour in Europe. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio.
Originally from White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School, in New York City. He has been awarded first prizes in the Busoni and Montreal Piano competitions, the Gold Medal at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1970), the Avery Fisher Prize (1994), the University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI (1998), the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music (2014), and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit from the Polish Deputy Culture Minister.
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
Led by Music Director Thomas Dausgaard, the Seattle Symphony unleashes the power of music, brings people together and lifts the human spirit. Recognized as one of the “most vital American orchestras” (NPR), the Seattle Symphony is internationally acclaimed for its inventive programming, community-minded initiatives and superb recordings on the Seattle Symphony Media label. With a strong commitment to new music and a legacy of over 150 recordings, the orchestra has garnered five Grammy Awards, 26 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and was named Gramophone’s 2018 Orchestra of the Year. The Symphony performs in Benaroya Hall in the heart of downtown Seattle from September through July, reaching over 500,000 people annually through live performances and radio broadcasts.
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DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS BRAHMS FEATURING GARRICK OHLSSON
Thursday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m.
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 1
Symphony No. 2: Allegro con spirito
Piano Concerto No. 1: Rondo: Allegro non troppo
Music Director Thomas Dausgaard conducts in an all-Brahms program, featuring three selections from past performances of some of the composer’s most well-known works.
The rebroadcast will be viewable on the Seattle Symphony’s YouTube and Facebook pages.
Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 1 and Symphony No. 2 were recorded live in concert at Benaroya Hall on January 25, 2018. Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with Garrick Ohlsson was recorded live in concert at Benaroya Hall on April 4, 2019.
Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 1, Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 1 were a part of the Delta Air Lines Masterworks Season.
Thomas Dausgaard’s performances sponsored by Scan|Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun.