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Garrick Ohlsson
Musical artist
Garrick Olaf Ohlsson (born April 3, ) is an American classical pianist.[1] In Ohlsson became the first, and remains the only, competitor from the United States to win the gold medal awarded by the International Chopin Piano Competition, at the VIII competition.[2] He also won first prize at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Italy[3] and the Montreal Piano Competition in Canada.
He was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in [4] and received the University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ohlsson has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning one in
In , in Warsaw, Ohlsson received the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, conferred by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.[5]
Early life
Born in Bronxville, New York as the only child of a Swedish father, Alvar Ohlsson, who emigrated from Sweden after World War II, and Sicilian-American