GARRICK OHLSSON, piano

Westchester County’s “hometown musical hero” returns with a program including Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin.

It’s a homecoming whenever Garrick Ohlsson returns to the PAC’s Great Performers roster. The PAC is only a few miles from where he began to study the piano seriously, as an 8-year-old student at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains. From there it was Juilliard at the age of 13 and a shelf full of prizes: first prize in the Chopin and Busoni Competitions, the Avery Fischer Prize – you name it, he’s won it.

His program will include Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, op. 109; Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (“Der Wanderer”); Chopin’s Sonata in B Minor, op. 58; and a work by Charles Griffes to be selected.