Horacio Gutierrez, a popular pianist with orchestras and audiences alike, returns to the Sooner State this week for his sixth appearance with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. He’ll be the soloist in Frederic Chopin’s “Concerto No. 1 in E Minor,”
“Like Mozart, Chopin was after an expression as pure and free of artifice as possible,” Gutierrez explained. “In that, they have a lot in common. What makes Mozart’s music so great is its economy, its depth of feeling and mood. Chopin had a much wider pianistic language but he also strove for straightforward simplicity and beauty.” continue reading–>