In 2017, New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini described pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as "Iceland's Glenn Gould" for his "fleet, free-ranging performance" of J.S. Bach's Partita No. 6. The ...

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 ...

The Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang tour reached Walt Disney Concert Hall this week. Demand for the superstar pianists' recital was such that Wednesday’s sold-out performance led the Los Angeles ...

Top-tier concert pianists commonly perform on nine-foot grand pianos. However, when they visit the Tiny Desk, it's our job to convince them to scale down to our diminutive upright. We got no argument ...

Last night, two major-league pianists formed a duo in a recital at Carnegie Hall. They are Yuja Wang, the Chinese-born American, and Víkingur Ólafsson, the Icelander. In the past, there have been full ...

“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 ...

On Feb. 21, Symphony Hall broke into applause as world-renowned pianists Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson entered the stage. The duo presented a two-piano and piano four hands recital, hosted by the ...

A few weeks ago, a new recording of Claude Debussy and Jean-Philippe Rameau works by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson arrived in the mail courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon. I wondered at the pairing ...

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Everything you need to know about Víkingur Ólafsson – the Icelandic pianist who won his first Grammy Award for his recording of Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations. Víkingur Ólafsson’s career has gone ...

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 ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was 8 years old, he threw a tantrum over Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As he tried to play the runs in the deceptive little Sonata facile in C major, the so-called "Easy Sonata," he ...