A Note from Alan Walker - Chopin's Biographer
THE TIMELESSNESS OF CHOPIN
I would like to make an assertion that I cannot prove but am certain is true. Within a 20-mile radius of where I am standing, someone is either playing or listening to Chopin’s music. Nor does it depend on my present location near Toronto. Move it to New York, London, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow or Beijing, and my proposition remains the same. Whatever the time-zone the sun never sets on Chopin’s music…
Garrick Ohlsson
StarringSince 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.
Creator & hostBen Laude
Concert pianist and content creator Ben Laude holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano from the Juilliard School. His playing has been described by The New York Times as “superb in pace, tone, and eloquence” and he has produced hundreds of online videos with the world’s greatest concert pianists, including Garrick Ohlsson, Yuja Wang, Marc-André Hamelin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Nikolai Lugansky, and the late Leon Fleisher.
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.”
Oscar Wilde
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