The Thirteenth

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (The Cliburn) is an American piano competition by The Cliburn, first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Initially held at Texas Christian University, the co ...

took place in

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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

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performed with the semifinalists, while the

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conducted by

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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

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were chosen. Competitors can meet

Van Cliburn Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (; July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold Wa ...

, a famous American pianist, who came in first place at the Tchaikovsky competition that took place in Moscow, Russia. The

is a quadrennial competition hosted by the

Van Cliburn Foundation {{refimprove, date=October 2018 The Van Cliburn Foundation presents the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Cliburn Amateur Piano Competition, the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, ''Musical Awakenings'' educ ...

. The first competition took place September 24-October 7, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jury

(* ''denotes members of screening audition jury'') * * John Giordano ''(chairman)'', Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra music director * *

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, concert pianist and composer *

Dimitri Alexeev Dmitri Alexeev (russian: Дмитрий Константинович Алексеев, ''Dmitrij Konstantinovič Alekseev'', born 10 August 1947 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and additionally under Dmitr ...

, 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 Menahem Pressler ( he, מנחם פרסלר; born 16 December 1923) is a German-born Israeli-American pianist. Pressler is Jewish. Following Kristallnacht, he and his immediate family fled Nazi Germany in 1939,

, pianist and professor of music * Tadeusz Strugala, conductor and professor of music

Awards

Competition results, by rounds

Screening Auditions

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, 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

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- 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 Martina Filjak (born 1978 in Zagreb) is a Croatian concert pianist. Biography Martina Filjak started playing piano at the age of 5 and held her first public performance aged 6. She completed her studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb, the Vi ...

* Andreas Hering * Soyeon Kim * Natacha Kudritskaya * Aleksey Lebedev *

Colleen Lee Colleen Lee Ka-ling (; born 11 October 1980) is a Hong Kong pianist who won the 6th place prize in the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2005. Biography Lee began piano lessons when she was four, and started studying with Miss Eleanor ...

* Tamara Licheli *

Michail Lifits Michail Lifits (born 1982) is a prizewinning German concert pianist who was born into a family of musicians in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Biography He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover under Bernd Goetzke and Karl-Heinz Kämm ...

* Maria Masycheva * Benjamin Moser * Dmytro Onyschenko * Satu Paavola * Esther Park *

Marianna Prjevalskaya Marianna Prjevalskaya (born 1982 in Chişinău) is a Russian concert pianist and a naturalized Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. Education Born to a musical family, Prjevalskaya benefited from early lessons with her mother, ...

Ilya Rashkovsky Ilya Rashkovskiy (born 17 November 1984, in Irkutsk) is a Russian pianist. Education Ilya Rashkovskiy debuted with the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra at the age of eight. He studied from 1993 to 2000 at the Novosibirsk Special School of Music with ...

* Philippe Raskin * Mayumi Sakamoto * Louis Schwizgebel-Wang *

Yeol Eum Son Yeol Eum Son (born May 2, 1986, in Wonju, South Korea) is a South Korean classical pianist. She first drew international attention in October 2004 at age 18 when she appeared as a soloist performing Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New Yor ...

* Avan Yu

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- N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, January 26–27, 2009 * Vladimir Farkov *

Vyacheslav Gryaznov Vyacheslav Gryaznov (russian: Вячеслав Грязнов; born 15 January 1982) is a Russian classical pianist, recording artist, transcriber, composer, and assistant professor of piano. In 2006, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory unde ...

* Andrey Gugnin *

Sofya Gulyak Sofya Gulyak (born 29 December 1979) is a Russian classical pianist. She was the first woman to win the Leeds Piano Competition. Gulyak was born in Kazan. She studied at the Kazan State Conservatoire, Piano Academy Incontri col Maestro, and the R ...

* Evgeny Izotov *

Vadym Kholodenko Vadym Kholodenko (born 1986, in Kyiv) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian pianist, and winner of the gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, who captured the attention of jury, audience, and critics alike for "mesmerizing ...

* Yaron Kohlberg * Asiya Korepanova *

Eduard Kunz Eduard Kunz (russian: Эдуард Кунц), (born October 30, 1980 in Omsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian pianist. He reached the 2nd round in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. Biography Eduard was born in Siberia from an assi ...

* Alexander Maslov * Dinara Nadzhafova * Alexandre Pirojenko * Sergey Sobolev * Kateryna Titova * Alexander Yakovlev

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, February 1–3, 2009 * Gloria Campaner *

Alessandro Deljavan Alessandro Deljavan (born February 1, 1987) is an Italian classical pianist. Biography He began studying piano when he was not even two years old. After receiving a degree from the Conservatory of Milan, Italy, he was selected for the prestigious ...

* Dmitry Demyashkin * François Dumont * Gayane Gasparyan * Irena Gulzarova * Soyeon Ham * Ching-Yun Hu * Alexander Karpeyev * Tatyana Kolesova *

Olga Kozlova Olga Kozlova (russian: Ольга Козлова; born 1986 in Penza, Russia) is a Russian pianist. She graduated from the ''Moscow Special Gnesin's School of Music'' in 2004 and is currently studying at the Moscow Conservatory.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

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, February 12–14, 2009 * Evgeny Andreev * Carlos Ávila * Jan Bartoš * Yelena Beriyeva *

Stephen Beus Stephen Beus (born 1981, Othello, Washington, United States) 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 ...

* Yue Chu *

Ran Dank Ran Dank (born April 3, 1982) is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, NY, USA. Early life Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim C ...

* Gregory DeTurck * Christopher Falzone * Wael Farouk * Anna Fedorova * Tanya Gabrielian * Pavel Gintov *

Yoonjung Han Yoonjung "Yoonie" Han (born January 12, 1985, in South Korea) is a South Korean-born American classical pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, p ...

* Miao Hou * Gleb Ivanov * Ilya Kazantsev *

Sean Kennard Sean Eric Kennard (born October 3, 1984) is an American classical pianist. Early years Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he b ...

* Ben Kim * Kyu Yeon Kim * Andrea Lam *

Soyeon Lee Soyeon Kate Lee (이소연) is a Korean-American classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, US. She is on the College and Pre-College piano faculty at the Juilliard School. Early life and education Born in Seoul, South Korea, Soyeon ...

Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim (born July 25, 1984 in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarshi ...

Dong-Min Lim Dong-Min Lim (born April 14, 1980, in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at t ...

* Edvinas Minkstimas * Spencer Myer * Hoang Pham * Vassily Primakov * Serhiy Salov * Shohei Sekimoto * Anna Shelest *

Konstantin Soukhovetski Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski (born January 19, 1981) was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his speci ...

* Diyi Tang * Jue Wang * Di Wu * Hong Xu * Ryo Yanagitani * Amy Yang * Einav Yarden * Wei-Jen Yuan * Haochen Zhang * Eric Zuber *

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* Jenny Deborah Han

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, 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 (also known as Nobu Tsujii) is a Japanese pianist and composer. He was born blind due to microphthalmia. Tsujii performs extensively, with a large number of conductors and orchestras, and has received critical acclaims as well as notices for h ...

* Vassilis Varvaresos * Abdiel Vazquez * Ti Xin * Ilya Yakushev

Preliminary round

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, 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

* 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

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

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

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and was broadcast nationwide in the USA on

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(PBS) television starting on September 1, 2010."A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition"
PBS, premiered Wednesday, September 1, 2010.

References

Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition website
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