Latvian piano sensation Georgijs Osokins may be only 21, but he’s already stirring up the classical-music world with his radical interpretations of Frédéric Chopin’s music.

At last year’s 17th International Chopin Piano Competition, in fact, he was considered too revolutionary to take the prize, but he ranked as a much-talked-about finalist and critics went gaga, calling him “exceptional,” “unpredictable”, and “original”. It’s exciting stuff, and well worth a jaunt to the Vancouver Chopin Society’s presentation at the Playhouse on Thursday night (May 19), where we’ll get to see the talent put his fingers to the works of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and, of course, Poland’s greatest composer.