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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

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(* denotes members of screening audition jury)

Awards

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

Competition results, by rounds

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Screening Auditions

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

  •   Yunjie Chen
  •   Roger Longjie Cui
  •   Christine Luo
  •   Yoshito Numasawa
  •   Wenyu Shen
  •   Tom Tang
  •   Chun Wang
  •   Shiran Wang
  •   Tianyang Wang
  •   Zhefei Wang
  •   Chi Wu
  •   Yashuangzi Xie
  •   Chenxin Xu
  •   Feng Zhang
  •   Yu Zhang
  •   Ning Zhou
  •   Xixi Zhou

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

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

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

  New York - Rockefeller University, February 12–14, 2009

  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

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  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

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  •   Evgeni Bozhanov
  •   Ran Dank
  •   Alessandro Deljavan
  •   Kyu Yeon Kim
  •   Eduard Kunz
  •   Andrea Lam
  •     Michail Lifits
  •   Yeol Eum Son
  •   Nobuyuki Tsujii
  •   Mariangela Vacatello
  •   Di Wu
  •   Haochen Zhang

Finalists

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  •   Evgeni Bozhanov
  •   Yeol Eum Son
  •   Nobuyuki Tsujii
  •   Mariangela Vacatello
  •   Di Wu
  •   Haochen Zhang

Competition Documentary

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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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  1. ^ A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at IMDb
  2. ^ "A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition", PBS, premiered Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
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