Fifteenth Competition information / news release
Selected links:
Competition schedule and structure; jury rules; prizes; results
Commissioned piano work, Toccata L'homme arme, by Marc-Andre Hamelin (interview)
Screening audition news release
Fort Worth auditions February 15-18
Applicant "fast facts" : two-hundred and ninety applications from 43 countries were received. Of those selected for the screening auditions:
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Cliburn Foundation: Facebook ; Twitter ; blog ; photos News: Star-Telegram ; Dallas Morning News ; KERA ; misc. Blogs: KERA Art & Seek ; Ft. Worth Weekly ; Theater Jones |
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2017 on YouTube ; program book ; recital recording purchase ; gold medalist recording download / CD order The Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition featured a fully produced webcast live from Fort Worth from May 25–June 10, 2017 from www.cliburn.org and cliburn2017.medici.tv. The dynamic, multi-camera webcast brought the Competition to life around the world in real time, with over 110 hours of live broadcasts of performances, interviews, and awards ceremonies over the 17-day period, plus hours of other compelling material such as competitor profiles, taped interviews, and featurettes (including its 1200 volunteers), and behind-the-scenes glimpses.
DMN: Here's what's new at the Cliburn Competition - and what it means
"Clef Notes" podcasts (Fort Worth Star-Telegram staff)
James Kim's "The Competition" podcasts
Finals Simulcasts The Finals was viewable June 9 and 10 as a simulcast in Sundance Square Plaza in downtown Fort Worth and June 10 at participating theaters, per Fathom Events. <Cliburn Foundation news release>
Cliburn Festival and Symposia: news release
Nowhere to hide: art by illustrator Debbie Drechsler, top, and cartoonist Etta Hulme, below, capture the 'up close and personal' nature of televised music competition (click images to enlarge).
Drechsler's art work appeared in Texas Monthly, January 1989. Hulme's cartoon, immediately above, appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 1, 1981.
