Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas from May 22 to June 7, 2009. The competitors were selected by a screening jury during screening auditions that took place in January and February 2009. The Takács Quartet performed with the semifinalists, while the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon accompanied the finalists.
At the suggestion of composer John Corigliano, a 25-member nominating committee of distinguished musicians issued invitations to noted American composers to submit solo piano scores 8 to 12 minutes in length. Original works by American composers John Musto, Mason Bates, and Daron Hagen were chosen.
Competitors can meet Van Cliburn, a famous American pianist, who came in first place at the Tchaikovsky competition that took place in Moscow, Russia.
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is a quadrennial competition hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. The first competition took place September 24-October 7, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Jury
[edit](* denotes members of screening audition jury)
*John Giordano (chairman), Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra music director
*Marcello Abbado, concert pianist and composer
Dimitri Alexeev, pianist
Michel Béroff, pianist and conductor
*Hung-Kuan Chen, pianist
*Richard Dyer, classical music writer
Joseph Kalichstein, pianist
*Yoheved Kaplinsky, pianist and professor of piano
Jürgen Meyer-Josten, pianist and radio executive
Menahem Pressler, pianist and professor of music
Tadeusz Strugala, conductor and professor of music
Awards
[edit]Award | Winner(s) | Benefits |
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First Prize (Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal) | ![]() ![]() (tie) |
cash award of US $20,000 each International concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the competition compact disc recording on the harmonia mundi usa label contribution towards domestic and international air travel on American Airlines during the three-year concert tours performance attire provided by Neiman Marcus silver trophy cup |
Second Prize (Silver Medal) | ![]() |
cash award of US $20,000 U.S. concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the competition compact disc recording on the harmonia mundi usa label |
Third Prize (Crystal Award) | not awarded | |
Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance(s) of Chamber Music | ![]() and ![]() |
cash award of US $3,000 each |
Beverly Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work | ![]() |
cash award of US $5,000 |
John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award | ![]() |
cash award of US $4,000 |
Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award | ![]() |
cash award of US $4,000 |
Jury Discretionary Award | ![]() |
cash award of US $4,000 |
Internet Voter Award | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Competition results, by rounds
[edit]Screening Auditions
[edit] Shanghai - Shanghai Conservatory, He Lu Ting Concert Hall, January 15–17, 2009
Hanover - Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, January 20–24, 2009
Ron Abramski
Hinrich Alpers
Evgeni Bozhanov
Evgeny Tcherepanov
Jae-won Cheung
Eugene Choi
Romain David
Martina Filjak
Andreas Hering
Soyeon Kim
Natacha Kudritskaya
Aleksey Lebedev
Colleen Lee
Tamara Licheli
Michail Lifits
Maria Masycheva
Benjamin Moser
Dmytro Onyschenko
Satu Paavola
Esther Park
Marianna Prjevalskaya
Ilya Rashkovsky
Philippe Raskin
Mayumi Sakamoto
Louis Schwizgebel-Wang
Yeol Eum Son
Avan Yu
Saint Petersburg - N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, January 26–27, 2009
Vladimir Farkov
Vyacheslav Gryaznov
Andrey Gugnin
Sofya Gulyak
Evgeny Izotov
Vadym Kholodenko
Yaron Kohlberg
Asiya Korepanova
Eduard Kunz
Alexander Maslov
Dinara Nadzhafova
Alexandre Pirojenko
Sergey Sobolev
Kateryna Titova
Alexander Yakovlev
Lugano - Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua Italiana, February 1–3, 2009
Gloria Campaner
Alessandro Deljavan
Dmitry Demyashkin
François Dumont
Gayane Gasparyan
Irena Gulzarova
Soyeon Ham
Ching-Yun Hu
Alexander Karpeyev
Tatyana Kolesova
Olga Kozlova
István Lajkó
Ji Liu
Vikingur Olafsson
Tristan Pfaff
Matan Porat
Timur Shcherbakov
Marian Sobula
Victor Stanislavsky
Sujung Sun
Alessandro Taverna
Mariangela Vacatello
Lukáš Vondráček
Daniel Wnukowski
Takashi Yamamoto
William Youn
Maurizio Zaccaria
Maria Tcherpnov
New York - Rockefeller University, February 12–14, 2009
Evgeny Andreev
Carlos Ávila
Jan Bartoš
Yelena Beriyeva
Stephen Beus
Yue Chu
Ran Dank
Gregory DeTurck
Christopher Falzone
Wael Farouk
Anna Fedorova
Tanya Gabrielian
Pavel Gintov
Yoonjung Han
Miao Hou
Gleb Ivanov
Ilya Kazantsev
Sean Kennard
Ben Kim
Kyu Yeon Kim
Andrea Lam
Soyeon Lee
Dong-Hyek Lim
Dong-Min Lim
Edvinas Minkstimas
Spencer Myer
Hoang Pham
Vassily Primakov
Serhiy Salov
Shohei Sekimoto
Anna Shelest
Konstantin Soukhovetski
Diyi Tang
Jue Wang
Di Wu
Hong Xu
Ryo Yanagitani
Amy Yang
Einav Yarden
Wei-Jen Yuan
Haochen Zhang
Eric Zuber
Zhang Zuo
Jenny Deborah Han
Fort Worth, Texas - Texas Christian University, February 21–24, 2009
Jun Asai
Kristhyan Benítez
Sara Daneshpour
Tamas Ardi
Christopher Guzmán
Tanya Karyagyna
Stanislav Khristenko
Naomi Kudo
Dmitri Levkovich
Ang Li
Anastasia Markina
Dimitris Papadimitriou
Eduardo Rojas
Aleyson Scopel
Andrew Staupe
Young-Ah Tak
Konstantyn Travinsky
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Vassilis Varvaresos
Abdiel Vazquez
Ti Xin
Ilya Yakushev
Preliminary round
[edit] Fort Worth, Texas - Bass Performance Hall, May 22–26, 2009
Stephen Beus
Evgeni Bozhanov
Yue Chu (withdrew before Preliminary round due to hand injury)
Ran Dank
Alessandro Deljavan
Yoonjung Han
Kyu Yeon Kim
Naomi Kudo
Natacha Kudritskaya
Eduard Kunz
Andrea Lam
Soyeon Lee
Ang Li
Michail Lifits
Spencer Myer
Ilya Rashkovsky
Mayumi Sakamoto
Yeol Eum Son
Victor Stanislavsky
Chetan Tierra
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Mariangela Vacatello
Vassilis Varvaresos
Lukáš Vondráček
Di Wu
Amy Yang
Feng Zhang
Haochen Zhang
Ning Zhou
Zhang Zuo
Semifinalists
[edit]Finalists
[edit]Competition Documentary
[edit]Like previous Cliburn Competitions, a competition documentary was produced called A Surprise in Texas, directed by Peter Rosen who directed several previous Cliburn documentaries. It premiered on April 11, 2010 at the Dallas International Film Festival and was broadcast nationwide in the USA on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television starting on September 1, 2010.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at IMDb
- ^ "A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition", PBS, premiered Wednesday, September 1, 2010.