Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
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The Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
took place in Fort Worth, Texas
from May 20 to June 5, 2005. It was won by Russian pianist Alexander Kobrin
, while Joyce Yang
and Sa Chen
were awarded the Silver and Bronze Medals.
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. 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...
took place in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
from May 20 to June 5, 2005. It was won by Russian pianist Alexander Kobrin
Alexander Kobrin
Alexander Kobrin is a Russian pianist.At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman...
, while Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang is a classical pianist.She began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student . At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky...
and Sa Chen
Sa Chen
Sa Chen is a Chinese classical music pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition and a prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition...
were awarded the Silver and Bronze Medals.
Jurors
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John GiordanoJohn GiordanoJohn Read Giordano is an American orchestra conductor, professor of music, composer, and former concert saxophonist. He is Associate Professor of Music at Texas Christian University...
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Marcello AbbadoMarcello AbbadoMarcello Abbado is an Italian composer, conductor, and pianist. His compositional output includes several orchestral works, a ballet, numerous pieces for solo piano, and a number of chamber works. He has collaborated on several compositions with Roberto Goitre... -
Peter Cossé - Richard Dyer
- Claude FrankClaude FrankClaude Frank is a German-born, American Jewish pianist whose career has included appearances with highly reputed orchestras, at major festivals, and in major recital halls around the world...
- Thomas FrostThomas FrostThomas Frost is multiple Grammy Award-winning classical music producer, who won many of his awards for producing the albums of Vladimir Horowitz...
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Joseph KalichsteinJoseph KalichsteinJoseph Kalichstein is a renowned Israeli-born American classical pianist who performs in the concerto, solo recital and chamber music repertoire, the latter mainly with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio... - Jürgen Meyer-Josten
- Menahem PresslerMenahem PresslerMenahem Pressler is a German-born American pianist, founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Professional career:...
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Tadeusz Strugala -
Guangren Zhou
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Results
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 Lilian Akopova |
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| Ning An Ning An -Biography:Born in Beijing in 1976, Ning An studied at the United States at the New England Conservatory with Russell Sherman and Olga Radosavljevich... |
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| Giuseppe Andaloro Giuseppe Andaloro Giuseppe Andaloro is an Italian pianist.Winner of the Bolzano Ferruccio Busoni Competition in 2005, the London World Piano Competition in 2002, and before of the Sendai International Piano Competition , the "Cidade do Porto" International Piano Competition , the "Premio Venezia - Teatro La... |
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| Stephen Beus Stephen Beus Stephen Beus is an American pianist.-Biography:Stephen Beus began taking piano lessons at age 5, and made his symphonic debut at age 9. He won the MTNA National Competition at the high school level at age 17, and later won the same competition again at age 21 at the collegiate level... |
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 Sodi Braide |
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| Davide Cabassi |
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| Jie Chen Jie Chen Jie Chen is a Chinese pianist.Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. She debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 16, and has concertized around the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.She has won... |
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| Sa Chen Sa Chen Sa Chen is a Chinese classical music pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition and a prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition... |
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| Ying Feng |
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| Grace Fong Grace Fong Grace Fong, D.M.A., is currently the Director of Keyboard Studies at Chapman University Conservatory of Music and continues an active solo and chamber music career. She also performs as part of the Selvaggi Trio.... |
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| Davide Franceschetti |
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| Alexey Grynyuk |
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| Chu-Fang Huang |
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| Mariya Kim |
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 Alexander KobrinAlexander Kobrin Alexander Kobrin is a Russian pianist.At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman... |
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| Marina Kolomytseva |
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| Alexey Koltakov |
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 So-yeon Lee |
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 Ang Li |
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| Albert Mamriev |
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 Gabriela Martínez |
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| Maria Mazo |
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| Alexandre Moutouzkine Alexandre Moutouzkine Alexandre Moutouzkine is a Russian pianist. He is active through Europe and the USA.Alexandre Moutouzkine burst onto the U.S... |
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| Esther Park |
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| Roberto Plano |
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| Daria Rabotkina |
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| Ilya Rashkovsky Ilya Rashkovsky Ilya Rashkovsky is a Russian pianist.He is a pupil of Vladimir Krainev at the Musikhochschule Hannover. At 17 Rashkovsky was second to Dong-Hyek Lim at the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition, and subsequently won the XLVIII Premio de Jaén and the inaugural edition of the Hong Kong Competition... |
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| Elizabeth Joy Roe |
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| Rui Shi |
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| Rem Urasin Rem Urasin Rem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov .... |
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| Xiaohan Wang |
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| Di Wu |
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| Joyce Yang Joyce Yang Joyce Yang is a classical pianist.She began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student . At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky... |
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 Andrius Zlabys |