Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

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The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.

The Van Cliburn Competition is held every four years (the year after the United States Presidential elections; thus, the next competitions will be held in 2013, 2017 and so forth). The winners and runners-up receive substantial cash prizes, plus concert tours at world-famous venues where they perform pieces of their choice. Previously held at Texas Christian University, the competition has been held at the Bass Performance Hall since 2001.

[edit] Top prize winners

The competition consists up to three full recital programs, new work performance, chamber music, and two concertos for each competitor.

Winners of the top prize awarded in the given year.

• 2009 – Nobuyuki Tsujii and Haochen Zhang (tie)
• 2005 – Alexander Kobrin
• 2001 – Stanislav Ioudenitch and Olga Kern (tie)
• 1997 – Jon Nakamatsu
• 1993 – Simone Pedroni
• 1989 – Alexei Sultanov
• 1985 – José Feghali
• 1981 – Andre-Michel Schub
• 1977 – Steven De Groote
• 1973 – Vladimir Viardo
• 1969 – Cristina Ortiz
• 1966 – Radu Lupu
• 1962 – Ralph Votapek

[edit] See also

• Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
• List of classical music competitions
• World Federation of International Music Competitions

[edit] External links

• The Van Cliburn Foundation – History and information on the competition.
• Directory of International Piano Competitions