Louis Langree Leads Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Tickets ($19-$80) to this event can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412.392.4900, or by visiting the PSO online at www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

French musician LOUIS LANGREE has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since December 2002 and his first five festivals have been marked with extensive critical acclaim. During the 2007/8 season he will make his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Rome Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Mozarteum Orchestra at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, in addition to return visits to the Houston and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras and Concerto Koln. During this season he will also conduct for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Mozart’s Zaide.

Langree was Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera for five years. He works regularly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where he has conducted the Mozart Da Ponte Operas with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Idomeneo and Fidelio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has also conducted at the Grand Theatre in Geneva, Bastille and Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Staatsoper in Dresden and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam.

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. Although he has long been regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frederic Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. His concerto repertoire alone is unusually wide and eclectic – ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century – and to date he has at his command some 80 concertos. Ohlsson is an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takacs and Tokyo string quartets, among other ensembles.

Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. A prolific recording artist, Garrick Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, Bridge, BMG, Delos, Hanssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, and Virgin Classics labels. His undertaking of the complete Beethoven sonatas for Bridge Records has already resulted in three discs all scheduled to be available during this season. -- www.pittsburghsymphony.org