Piano competition

29-year-old Aristo Sham played Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff on his way to the top prize at this year's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Recorded live in Fort Worth, see and hear his amazing artistry at the link.

We're back at the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival. You'll hear more incredible performances, including some with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and meet semi-finalists and winners of the competition.

Vitaly Starikov, silver medalist at the 2025 Cliburn, says that when he's on stage, he's not thinking about the competition. In fact, he's having fun, performing for an appreciative audience. Hear the joy in his performance in this special program featuring highlights from his early rounds.

Beginning this week through August 16, we’ll listen together to some of the great early-round performances from this year’s Cliburn Competition. featuring the three Finalists: Evren Ozel, Vitaly Starikov, and Aristo Sham.

An Israeli/Russian took silver and a Minnesotan won bronze in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Some music professionals say it's time to adopt the stretto piano

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.