SEASON 2Episode 6: Concertos
Coming in August 2025!
Garrick Ohlsson and Ben Laude explore Chopin’s monuments for piano and orchestra, the Concertos.
Featuring
John Rink
Musicologist & Chopin Scholar
Jury, 2020 & 2025 International Chopin Competition
John Rink is Professor of Music in the Cambridge Faculty of Music, and Fellow in Music at St John's College. He studied at Princeton University, King's College London, and the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research was on the evolution of tonal structure in Chopin's early music and its relation to improvisation. He specialises in the fields of performance studies, nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin), theory and analysis, and digital musicology, and has published six books with Cambridge University Press. Rink is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition, and directs two other research projects: Chopin's First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).
Martín García García
3rd Prize, 2021 International Chopin Competition
Martín García García is considered one of the pianists with the greatest international projection. Martín García García has appeared in important venues across Europe, America, and Asia, receiving highly positive reviews from figures like Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Alexeev, Arcadi Volodos, Dimitri Bashkirov, Joaquín Achúcarro, and Tatiana Copeland (niece of Sergei Rachmaninoff). He has received major global recognitions, including first prize at the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition and third place at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition. In the latter competition, he also received the special award from the Warsaw Philharmonic National Orchestra for the best concerto performance. He released his debut album “Chopin and His Master” in 2022, a production performed by the artist himself, and his second one, “Even-Tide”, was released on all platforms in 2024.
Critic’s Corner
Jed Distler on Great Recordings of
Chopin’s Concertos
Jed Distler is a composer, pianist, music writer, and arts presenter based in New York. He is the official Gramophone blogger for the International Chopin Competition.