Garrick ohlsson biography of rory

Musical artist

Garrick Olaf Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948) is an American classical pianist.^[1] In 1970 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 1994^[4] 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.^[5]

Early life

Born in Bronxville, New York as the only child of a Swedish father, Alvar Ohlsson, who emigrated from Sweden after World Wa