A podcast about the greatest piano music ever composed.
“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
StarringGarrick Ohlsson
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.
Creator and 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.
Produced in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the Unites States:
Presenter of the US National Chopin Competition:
