“I think the good thing about Iceland is that you have a certain sense of freedom and you have to find your own path,” said pianist Víkingur Ólafsson about how he experienced growing up in Iceland in ...

Bass-baritone Gerald Finley, clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Víkingur Olafsson will make their local debuts in the newly announced 2021-22 Schubert Club International Artist Series. Olafsson, a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson turns his hand to Mozart for his fourth album for ...

Critics can't help but draw parallels between pianist Víkingur Ólafsson's pristine, crystalline touch at the keyboard and the bracing landscapes of his native Iceland: light reflected on snow, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Víkingur Ólafsson made his Carnegie Hall debut with a hypnotically unfurling program based on his recent album “Mozart and ...

After the Fall is John Adams's third full-scale concerto for solo piano, following Century Rolls (1996), written for Emanuel Ax, and Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (2018), composed for Yuja ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Rock stars are known to make certain demands on tour, stipulating everything they expect to find in their dressing rooms and onstage. Pianists Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson — two ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...

Ólafsson is in the midst of a series of US concerts that includes his first Boston recital: a sold-out appearance in the Celebrity Series of Boston’s Debut Series on Tuesday The pianist Víkingur ...

Captain Obvious once said, "The appeal of Philip Glass' music is its simplicity." The minimalist school, which includes Glass, as well as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich, produces music ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Vikingur Olafsson’s latest recording is a sprawling juxtaposition of Debussy and Rameau. By Joshua Barone LOS ANGELES — The pianist Vikingur ...

When Murray Perahia canceled his U.S. recital tour this spring due to an otherwise unexplained “sudden medical setback,” presenters were stuck with the seeming impossible. How to replace a piano ...