Arthur Ozolins

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Arthur Ozolins ( Arturs Ozoliņš ; born February 7, 1946 in Lübeck ) is a Canadian pianist of Latvian origin.

Ozolins spent his childhood in Buenos Aires and as a teenager studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Alberto Guerrero , Boris Roubakine , Raphael da Silva and Jacques Abram . At the age of fourteen he gave a concert with the National Youth Orchestra under the direction of Walter Susskind , and the following year he performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra . From 1963–64 he was a student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, from 1964 to 1967 he studied with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music in New York, and finally 1969–70 with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris.

In 1968 Ozolins won First Prizes at the CBC Talent Festival and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Competition . In addition to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra , the St Louis Symphony Orchestra , the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Center Orchestra . In 1977 he gave a concert at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris with works by Jean Papineau-Couture , Clermont Pépin and Igor Stravinsky . In 1978 he went on a concert tour of the USA with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra . In the same year he performed in Sweden and England, in the following year a concert tour took him through the USSR to Leningrad, Moscow and Riga. Seven more concert tours followed through the Soviet Union and two through South America.

The focus of the Ozolins repertoire is on the works of Frédéric Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninow . He received the Juno Award in 1980 for a recording of compositions by both of them, and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra he played all of Rachmaninov's piano concertos with the CBC . He is also interested in the piano works of Latvian composers such as Jānis Kalniņš and the Latvian-Canadian composer Tālivaldis Ķeniņš . At the Latvian Festivals in Toronto he premiered the Kalniņš Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra in 1986 and Kenins’s Concerto for Piano, Strings and Percussion in 1991. The Latvian government awarded him the Grand Music Prize in 2002 and the Three Star Order in 2003 . In 2010 he received an honorary professorship from the Latvian Academy of Music.

Ozolins also performed works by the composer Srul Irving Glick . As a chamber musician, he performed with the Kroll String Quartet and founded the Hidy-Ozolins-Tsutsumi Trio with violinist Marta Hidy and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi in 1973 , which existed for ten years.

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SURNAME Ozolins, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian pianist of Latvian origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck