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Garrick Ohlsson’s Delectable Chopin Feast

By Ken Herman | January 16, 2016 |

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson served a feast of Chopin’s music that proved fresh and invigorating . . .

Prodigy Pianist Gavin George Opens Mainly Mozart Forum on Prodigies

By Ken Herman | September 26, 2015 |

Mainly Mozart’s Mozart and the Mind series opened Friday (September 25) with a flashy piano recital by the 12-year-old Gavin George . . .

Trifonov a Paragon of Technical Prowess and Poetic Exposition

By Ken Herman | April 11, 2015 |

Exceeding the high expectations of Friday’s (April 10) bustling, capacity audience at La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium, 24-year-old Russian piano virtuoso Daniil Trifonov soared with a brilliant recital of Bach, Beethoven and Franz Liszt . . .