The Icelandic classical pianist Vikingur Olafsson has built an impressive international career. Sought after by top orchestras and major concert venues worldwide, his records are published by the ...

Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson passionately confessed his deep affection for Johann Sebastian Bach and the “Goldberg Variations.” “I have been dreaming about recording the Goldberg Variations for ...

As Víkingur Ólafsson records his new album of Rameau and Debussy, Martin Cullingford offers a portrait of Gramophone’s Artist of the Year at work The road from Iceland’s Keflavik Airport to its ...

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The Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is one of the world’s most engrossing live performers of classical piano music right now. Dazzling yet nuanced, he visited the Bay Area twice last year: to ...

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 ...

Congratulations on such a milestone! Are you very conscious of having a different audience through such online success? Sometimes, sometimes not. But I remember when I played the Goldberg Variations ...

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence, continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. Tonight he plays an energetic ...

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 ...