{"id":1050,"date":"2009-05-21T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2009-05-22T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:03:04","slug":"the-13th-van-cliburn-international-piano-competition-and-a-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/the-13th-van-cliburn-international-piano-competition-and-a-50th-anniversary-1050\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting May 22, all performances will be streamed live eleven hours per day and then archived for \u201con-demand\u201d viewing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliburn.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cliburn.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliburn.tv\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/cliburn2009.jpg\" title=\"Van Cliburn Piano Competition 2009\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"450\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. 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&#8217;s First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff&#8217;s Piano Concerto No. 3. Van Cliburn was only twenty-three when he won in Moscow on April 14, 1958, at the height of the Cold War.<br \/>\nUpon his return to the United States, the young pianist received a hero\u2019s welcome in New York City with a ticker-tape parade. This was the first and only time the city gave such an honor to a classical musician.<br \/>\nOn that historic day, Van Cliburn became both cultural hero and unofficial diplomat. He went on to perform before every U.S. president from 1958 until today; the most famous of these concerts occurred in 1987 when he played for Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House. This occassion is now remembered as \u201cthe day the Cold War was lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Historic video coverage featuring Van Cliburn:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zPRNx9GaplY&#038;hl=sv&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zPRNx9GaplY&#038;hl=sv&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2009 Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine pianists will compete in the Preliminary Round; twelve will compete in the Semifinal Round; and six will vie for top honors in the Final Round. All six finalists will receive a prize package offering three years of managed concert tours at over $1,000,000 total value.<br \/>\nCliburn winners perform in hundreds of venues across the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliburn.org\/index.php?page=cliburn_current_comp\" target=\"_blank\">The 2009 Competitors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPast Top prize winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winners of the top prize awarded in the given year (first prize, unless otherwise noted):<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u2014 Alexander Kobrin<br \/>\n2001 \u2014 Stanislav Ioudenitch and Olga Kern (tied)<br \/>\n1997 \u2014 Jon Nakamatsu<br \/>\n1993 \u2014 Simone Pedroni<br \/>\n1989 \u2014 Alexei Sultanov<br \/>\n1985 \u2014 Jose Feghali<br \/>\n1981 \u2014 Andre-Michel Schub<br \/>\n1977 \u2014 Steven DeGroote<br \/>\n1973 \u2014 Vladimir Viardo<br \/>\n1969 \u2014 Cristina Ortiz<br \/>\n1966 \u2014 Radu Lupu<br \/>\n1962 \u2014 Ralph Votapek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting May 22, all performances will be streamed live eleven hours per day and then archived for \u201con-demand\u201d viewing. http:\/\/www.cliburn.tv\/ The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. 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