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CLIBURN IN THE COMMUNITY PRESENTS FREE RECITALS BY FEI-FEI DONG AT SUNDANCE, LIBRARY, AND MORE


New artist residencies will bring young emerging artists to North Texas for a series of outreach concerts, offered entirely free of charge to the public.


For Immediate Release

Contact:
Maggie Estes, director of marketing and public relations, mestes@cliburn.org, 817.738.6536

FORT WORTH, Texas, October 2, 2014—The Cliburn announces its Cliburn in the Community program, a renewed outreach effort that will provide the experience of live classical music performance for free to a broad audience through partnerships with vibrant venues and organizations throughout Fort Worth. The program will bring in young, emerging artists for weeklong residencies to include performances and other community engagement opportunities.

Cliburn in the Community launches the 2014–2015 season this month with 2013 Cliburn Competition Finalist Fei-Fei Dong:

Friday, Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m.Sundance Square Plaza60-minute recital
Saturday, Oct. 18, 7–9 p.m.Steinway Hall – Fort WorthMaster class
Sunday, Oct. 19, 3 p.m.Sundance Square Plaza60-minute recital
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.Fort Worth Youth OrchestraRecital + FWYO concert
Thursday, Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.    Fort Worth Central Public Library   Full recital


Ms. Dong will also perform a private recital for the Alzheimer’s Association, which—among its many services—provides arts experiences for those affected by the disease and other dementias, reaching them through the power of music-memory connection.

Chinese pianist Fei-Fei Dong has begun to build a reputation for her poetic interpretations, charming audiences with her “natural beauty of tone” (Cincinnati Enquirer) and “winning stage presence” (Dallas Morning News). Deeply committed to sharing her joy for music and connecting with communities, she also regularly engages students and audiences through school and outreach concerts, traditional master classes, Q&A sessions, and other residency activities. For more information about Fei-Fei Dong, visit: http://www.cliburn.org/cliburn-winners/2013-winners/fei-fei-dong/

“The Cliburn’s mission is to spread excellent classical music with the largest audience possible, across cultural and economic boundaries,” said Jacques Marquis, Cliburn president and CEO. “And our dual mandate is the encouragement of excellent music and new artists. With Cliburn in the Community, we are able to answer both by presenting extraordinary young pianists in performances at places easily accessible to the public at large.”

The second week of Cliburn in the Community will feature Steven Lin, 2013 Cliburn competitor and winner of the John Giordano Jury Discretionary Award. He will perform a series of concerts in April 2015, details to be announced early next year. This second artist residency is partially sponsored by Chesapeake Energy.
 

THE CLIBURN
The Cliburn advances classical piano music throughout the world. Its international competitions, education programs, and concert series embody an enduring commitment to artistic excellence and the discovery of new artists. Established in 1962, the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is widely-recognized as “one of the world’s highest-visibility classical-music contests” and remains committed to its original ideals of supporting and launching the careers of young pianists, age 18 to 30.  It shares the transformative powers of music with a wide global audience, through a fully-produced webcast and by providing commission-free, comprehensive career management and concert bookings to its winners. Rounding out its mission, the Cliburn also produces the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™ for non-professional pianists 35 and older, and recently announced that it will hold its inaugural Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival in June 2015, for exceptional 13 to 17-year-old pianists.

Over a four-year cycle, the Cliburn contributes to North Texas’ cultural landscape with over 170 classical music performances for 150,000 attendees, through competitions, free community concerts, and its signature Cliburn Concerts series at Bass Performance Hall, the Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. It presents 1,000 in-school, interactive music education programs for 200,000 area elementary students. During the same time period, it garners the world’s attention with over one million visits from 155 nations for live concert and competition webcasts; 300 concerts worldwide booked for competition winners; more than 5,000 news articles about the Cliburn and its winners; regular national radio broadcasts to 245 public radio stations; and a PBS documentary airing in a potential 105 million households. 

Detailed information about the Cliburn and its programs is available at Cliburn.org.


Official Sponsors of the Cliburn are:

Amon G. Carter Foundation

Ann L. & Carol Green Rhodes Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee

Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County

BNSF Railway Foundation

Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust

Edith Winther Grace Charitable Trust, J.P. Morgan, Trustee

ExxonMobil / XTO Energy

Jane and John Justin Foundation

Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation

Sid W. Richardson Foundation

Steinway & Sons – North Texas / Houston

The Burnett Foundation

Exclusive Print Media Sponsor:
Star-Telegram

 

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