“You recreated the kind of moments I was lucky enough to hear with Horowitz at his best, which was a link to an earlier time-Rachmaninov, Hofmann, Friedman etc, whom my generation never heard.”
“Refined, impeccable technique, musical ideas – simply great piano playing.”
Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins “catapults himself into the very front row of pianistic alchemists” for his “tremendous range of crystalline, highly distilled and fairy-tale-like sensitive touch and his sense of musical timing” (Online Merker).
As the first Baltic pianist with an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, his first album, released in fall 2025, consisted of Arvo Pärt’s complete piano works including Osokins’s own piano transcription of Fratres, for which the composer granted exclusive permission, and a duet with Martha Argerich.
Osokins’s depth of music-making is revealed in the long-term relationships he is building with fellow artists and ensembles. Recent and upcoming collaborations include Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kremerata Baltica, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic with conductors such as Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Christoph Eschenbach, Tianyi Lu, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Rotem Nir, Andrey Boreyko, Adam Fischer, Yuta Shimizu, Andris Poga, and Kristiina Poska.
Gaining international recognition at the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition, he has performed solo recitals and chamber music at venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin’s Boulez Saal, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall London, Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Concert Hall, and the Shanghai Music Festival. Frequent collaborators include Nicolas Altstaedt, Camille Thomas, Mario Brunello, Geneva Lewis, as well as Gidon Kremer and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė with whom he released trios by Chopin and Beethoven on Accentus Music, a recording nominated for the 2020 International Classical Music Awards and the Opus Klassik 2021.