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

(* denotes members of screening audition jury)

  • United States *Richard Dyer, classical music writer
  • United States Joseph Kalichstein, pianist
  • United States *Yoheved Kaplinsky, pianist and professor of piano
  • Germany Jürgen Meyer-Josten, pianist and radio executive
  • United States Menahem Pressler, pianist and professor of music
  • Poland Tadeusz Strugala, conductor and professor of music

Awards

Award Winner(s) Benefits
First Prize (Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal) China Zhang Hao Chen
Japan Nobuyuki Tsujii
(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) South Korea Yeol Eum Son 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 Bulgaria Evgeni Bozhanov
and
South Korea Yeol Eum Son
cash award of US $3,000 each
Beverly Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work Japan Nobuyuki Tsujii cash award of US $5,000
John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award Italy Alessandro Deljavan cash award of US $4,000
Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award Czech Republic Lukáš Vondráček cash award of US $4,000
Jury Discretionary Award Russia Eduard Kunz cash award of US $4,000
Internet Voter Award Italy Mariangela Vacatello (23.9%)
Japan Nobuyuki Tsujii (22.6%)
South Korea Yeol Eum Son (15.9%)

Competition results, by rounds

Screening Auditions

China Shanghai - Shanghai Conservatory, He Lu Ting Concert Hall, January 15-17, 2009

  • China Yunjie Chen
  • Australia Roger Longjie Cui
  • Australia Christine Luo
  • Japan Yoshito Numasawa
  • China Wenyu Shen
  • China Tom Tang

  • China Chun Wang
  • China Shiran Wang
  • China Tianyang Wang
  • China Zhefei Wang
  • China Chi Wu
  • China Yashuangzi Xie

  • China Chenxin Xu
  • China Feng Zhang
  • China Yu Zhang
  • China Ning Zhou
  • China Xixi Zhou

Germany Hanover - Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, January 20-24, 2009

Russia Saint Petersburg - N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, January 26-27, 2009

  • Ukraine Dinara Nadzhafova
  • Russia Alexandre Pirojenko
  • Russia Sergey Sobolev
  • Ukraine Kateryna Titova
  • Russia Alexander Yakovlev

Switzerland Lugano - Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua Italiana, February 1-3, 2009

  • Italy Gloria Campaner
  • Italy Alessandro Deljavan
  • Russia Switzerland Dmitry Demyashkin
  • France François Dumont
  • Armenia Gayane Gasparyan
  • Uzbekistan Irena Gulzarova
  • South Korea Soyeon Ham
  • Taiwan Ching-Yun Hu
  • Russia Alexander Karpeyev

  • Russia Tatyana Kolesova
  • Russia Olga Kozlova
  • Hungary István Lajkó
  • China Ji Liu
  • Iceland Vikingur Olafsson
  • France Tristan Pfaff
  • Israel Matan Porat
  • Belarus Timur Shcherbakov
  • Poland Marian Sobula

United States New York - Rockefeller University, February 12-14, 2009

  • Russia Evgeny Andreev
  • United States Carlos Ávila
  • Czech Republic Jan Bartoš
  • Armenia Yelena Beriyeva
  • United States Stephen Beus
  • China Yue Chu
  • Israel Ran Dank
  • United States Gregory DeTurck
  • United States Christopher Falzone
  • Egypt Wael Farouk
  • Ukraine Anna Fedorova
  • United States Tanya Gabrielian
  • Ukraine Pavel Gintov
  • South Korea Yoonjung Han
  • China Miao Hou

  • Russia Gleb Ivanov
  • Russia Ilya Kazantsev
  • United States Sean Kennard
  • United States Ben Kim
  • South Korea Kyu Yeon Kim
  • Australia Andrea Lam
  • South Korea Soyeon Lee
  • South Korea Dong-Hyek Lim
  • South Korea Dong-Min Lim
  • Lithuania Edvinas Minkstimas
  • United States Spencer Myer
  • Australia Hoang Pham
  • Russia Vassily Primakov
  • Ukraine Serhiy Salov
  • Japan Shohei Sekimoto
  • South Korea United States Jenny Deborah Han

United States Fort Worth, Texas - Texas Christian University, February 21-24, 2009

  • United States Jun Asai
  • Venezuela Kristhyan Benítez
  • United States Sara Daneshpour
  • Hungary Tamas Ardi
  • Australia David Fung
  • United States Christopher Guzmán
  • Kazakhstan Tanya Karyagyna
  • Russia Stanislav Khristenko

  • Japan United States Naomi Kudo
  • Ukraine Canada Dmitri Levkovich
  • China Canada Ang Li
  • Russia Anastasia Markina
  • Greece Dimitris Papadimitriou
  • Colombia Eduardo Rojas
  • Brazil Aleyson Scopel
  • United States Andrew Staupe

  • South Korea Young-Ah Tak
  • Ukraine Konstantyn Travinsky
  • Japan Nobuyuki Tsujii
  • Greece Vassilis Varvaresos
  • Mexico Abdiel Vazquez
  • China Ti Xin
  • Russia Ilya Yakushev

Preliminary round

United States Fort Worth, Texas - Bass Performance Hall, May 22-26, 2009

Semifinalists

Finalists

Competition Documentary

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

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