Piano competition

Hear all three of the 2024 Gurwitz International Piano Competition Finalists perform with the Mexico City Philharmonic in this program, recorded on Feb. 3, 2024.

With repertoire that included such varied fare as Franz Schubert’s sunny Sonata No. 21 and György Ligeti’s fiendishly difficult etude, “The Devil’s Staircase,” it's easy to see how the Gurwitz jurors awarded Yungyung Guo the Gold Medal.

The bronze medalist at this year's Gurwitz International Piano Competition, Young Sun Choi, plays music by Chopin, Mozart, Schumann, and San Antonio composer Aaron Prado in these excerpts from Rounds 1-3 of the competition.

The day before the fourth and final round of The 2024 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, jury chair Scott Yoo brought three colleagues into the TPR studios to look forward to what happens next for the talented artists competing, and offer their optimistic thoughts about the classical music scene.

Over the course of one week beginning Jan. 26, music fans can hear some of the best pianists in the world perform at the Gurwitz International Piano Competition, which includes a focus on Latin American and Spanish music.

In 2022, pianist Yunchan Lim, age 18, became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Hear his early round performances on this edition of Performance Saturday.

Dmytro Choni, who won the bronze medal at the 2022 Cliburn Competition, is returning to Texas this month.

Six finalists competed in the competition in Fort Worth, Texas, including two from Russia and one from Ukraine. An 18-year-old South Korean was the youngest to win in the contest's 60-year history.

Round Two of The Gurwitz 2020 International Piano Competition began on Wednesday morning at Ruth Taylor Recital Hall on the Trinity University campus. Six…

On the second morning of competition at The Gurwitz International Piano Competition, judges and spectators were treated to the artistry of three talented…