Fort Worth, Texas, April 12, 2012--Alann Bedford Sampson, Van Cliburn Foundation interim president and CEO, announced today that IMG Artists will manage engagements in Europe and Asia for the gold medalist of the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, to be held May 24-June 9, 2013, at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. This will mark the third consecutive competition that the Cliburn will partner with this esteemed artist management firm.
In addition to the three-year international concert tour, the winner will receive a cash prize of $50,000 and a commercial recording produced by harmonia mundi usa. Applications for competitors can now be submitted online and are due October 15, 2012. Complete information about prizes, eligibility, rules, and application procedures can be found at Cliburn.org.
Since its inception in 1962, the Van Cliburn Foundation has remained committed not only to identifying young pianists who represent the highest in artistic achievement, but also to nurturing these artists and launching their careers. To this end, the Cliburn arranges for hundreds of recital, festival, and orchestra concert engagements across the United States, commission-free, for the six finalists in the three years following each competition. The finalists of the Thirteenth Competition have collectively performed over 400 engagements since June 2009.
The collaboration with IMG Artists extends the visibility of the gold medalist across the globe. Past engagements for Cliburn winners have included the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, National Philharmonic of Russia, NCPA Beijing, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Verbier Festival, Munich Herkulessaal, Dresden Musikfestspiele, and the Louvre Paris.
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ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide, and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists, award-winning documentaries, radio broadcasts, and a live webcast that extends its outreach to audiences around the world. In 2009, over 2,857,573 total streams were delivered to viewers from 157 countries/territories.
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall and will welcome 30 of the world's finest young pianists to Texas. Continuing its longstanding commitment to new music, the Cliburn has selected composer Christopher Theofanidis to write the commissioned work that will be performed by all competitors during the Semifinal Round. Additionally, the Competition has been dedicated to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of its competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to collaborate with other musicians. The Fourteenth Competition will mark the first Cliburn appearance by the world-renowned Brentano String Quartet performing a piano quintet with each of the 12 semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, which has appeared at ???every Cliburn Competition, will perform two concerti with each of the six finalists, under the baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John Giordano will serve as chairman of the jury for his eleventh competition since assuming the post in 1973.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches 33,000 elementary school students annually with the education programs of Musical Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which The Boston Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who have to make music, no matter what." The sixth Amateur Competition was held May 23-29, 2011, at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
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