Cash prizes up to $100,000, plus three years of concert management and bookings for top winners, attracted 340 applicants for the 2025 competition. In advance video and live auditions, 30 pianists ...

Throughout the competition, 29-year-old Aristo Sham played hours of music from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and others. A pair of concertos, one Brahms and the other Mendelssohn, lifted him to ...

Israeli-Russian pianist Vitaly Starikov won the silver medal and American pianist Evren Ozel the bronze at the Fort Worth competition.

An Israeli/Russian took silver and a Minnesotan won bronze in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ...

In 1958, pianist Van Cliburn shocked Russia and the world by winning the Tchaikovsky competition in a stunning upset.. The competition was set up to show off Russia's young crop of pianists as the ...

Once the piano pyrotechnics of the 2025 Cliburn Competition had ended, the new winners were celebrated with a spectacular fireworks show in Fort Worth. Barely an hour after Aristo Sham of Hong Kong ...

A 29-year-old from Hong Kong became the first pianist from there to take home the top prize Saturday night in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Aristo Sham of Hong Kong, China ...

The 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition kicks off in Fort Worth May 21 to June 7. The Fort Worth Report will provide in-depth coverage of the competition. Follow the score here. When ...

Van Cliburn By Howard Reich Thomas Nelson, 428 pages, $24.99 Pianist Van Cliburn is among the most opaque figures in the world of classical music. Though he has maintained a fairly constant visibil… ...

The Korean pianist’s big break came in 2022 at one of the world’s most prestigious music competitions: the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. In the early rounds of the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Cliburn, a renowned piano competition held in Fort Worth, announced its field of 30 competitors on Wednesday. The 30 pianists will participate in the seventeenth Van ...

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