Eight years ago, I called the winners of the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: although I didn’t anticipate that there would be ties for both the gold and silver medals, I did predict Olga Kern, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Antonio…
I’m back in St. Louis (there’s a production opening tonight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, www.experienceopera.org , Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, and I’m covering it), which means that I’m watching the final round in the same way as millions of…
FORT WORTH - Saturday’s marathon at the Cliburn piano competition finals continued at 7:30 with Di Wu of China, who opened with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910. She gave it a lovely, light, accurate and transporting account,…
FORT WORTH The finals of the 13th International Van Cliburn Piano Competition are like a marathon; each of the six finalists performs three major programs in five days. There’s a 50-minute recital, a concerto with chamber orchestra, and a concerto with…
FORT WORTH – Every four years in late May and early June, this self-proclaimed “cowtown” becomes the center of the classical piano universe. Van Cliburn, who rocked the world with his Cold War-era win of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition…
