Orpheus & Garrick Ohlsson
Mozart, Brahms & Billy Childs

Orpheus proudly welcomes back Garrick Ohlsson, a trusted Mozart partner hailed for his “muscular technique and the sensitivity and restraint with which he deploys it” (The New York Times). Wise musicians understand that the future exists in the past. Just ask the young Brahms, who mined Handel (and Bach and Beethoven) to craft what he later called his “favorite work.” The even younger Mozart melded styles from near and far in his first truly brilliant piano concerto. Composer and six-time Grammy winner Billy Childs infuses classical traditions with his jazz roots in a new work.

Program:

Billy Childs | Each Moment Is a New Discovery
Commissioned by Orpheus & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major K. 271, Jeunehomme
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Brahms | Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
orchestrated by Michael Stephen Brown