FORT WORTH, Texas, August 18, 2016—Single tickets for the 2016–2017 Cliburn Concerts will be available for purchase beginning Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10 a.m. Tickets to the Cliburn at the Kimbell: Masters series are $30–$90, Cliburn at the Kimbell: Virtuosos are $30–$65,  and tickets to Cliburn at the Modern are $25.  Individual tickets for the Cliburn at the Bass performance featuring violinist Hilary Hahn range in price from $20–$90. Tickets to Cliburn Sessions are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Subscription packages are still available ranging from $70–$270. Individual tickets and subscriptions can be purchased online at Cliburn.org, by calling 817.212.4280, or in person at the Bass Hall Box Office (525 Commerce St., Fort Worth, TX).

THE SEASON AT A GLANCE:

CLIBURN AT THE BASS

Tues., March 28, 2017     Hilary Hahn, violin + Robert Levin, piano

Seating is reserved. Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at Bass Performance Hall, located at 4th and Calhoun Streets, Fort Worth.

CLIBURN AT THE KIMBELL: MASTERS

Thurs., Oct. 27 and Fri., Oct. 28, 2016     Brentano String Quartet + Haochen Zhang, piano 
Thurs., Jan. 26 and Fri., Jan. 27, 2017     Nathan Gunn, baritone and Julie Gunn, piano
Thurs., Feb. 23 and Fri., Feb. 24, 2017     Richard Goode, piano

Seating is reserved.  All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Piano Pavilion of the Kimbell Art Museum, located at 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. in Fort Worth’s Cultural District. 

CLIBURN AT THE KIMBELL: VIRTUOSOS

Thurs., Sept. 22, 2016          Sean Chen, piano
Thurs., Nov. 10, 2016           Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Thurs., Feb. 9, 2017             Avi Avital, mandolin + Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord

Seating is reserved.  All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Piano Pavilion of the Kimbell Art Museum, located at 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. in Fort Worth’s Cultural District. 

 
CLIBURN AT THE MODERN

Sat., Oct. 8, 2016          “American Piano”
Sat., April 1, 2017         Gabriela Lena Frank, composer

Seating is general admission. All performances begin at 2:00 p.m. at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, located at 3200 Darnell St. in Fort Worth's Cultural District. 
 

CLIBURN SESSIONS

Tues., Nov. 1, 2016     VOCES8, a cappella
Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017   Conrad Tao, piano
Thurs., March 9, 2017  Sybarite5, string quintet

Seating is general admission. All performances begin at 8:00 p.m. at The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge, located at 1311 Lipscomb St. on Fort Worth's Southside. 

Artists and programs are subject to change.
 

DETAILED ARTIST DESCRIPTIONS:

CLIBURN AT THE BASS

Hilary Hahn, violin + Robert Levin, piano        Tues., March 28, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

In the more than two decades since her professional debut, violinist Hilary Hahn has shown an ever-evolving approach to music making matched only by a curiosity about the world around her: “She started out as a prodigy of rare clarity and virtuosity and has developed into a daring, mature artist eager for new collaborations and repertory” (The New York Times). The three-time Grammy^® Award-winning musician, who “sits atop the pantheon of stellar violinists” (Nuvo), will bring her expansive interpretations and creative repertoire to the Bass Performance Hall stage for an incandescent, one-night-only performance with renowned pianist and conductor Robert Levin.

PROGRAM:

BACH Sonata No. 6 in G Major for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1019
ABRIL Partita (solo violin, written for Hilary Hahn)
TÜRK Träume (solo piano, written for Robert Levin)
MOZART Violin Sonata in E-flat Major for Violin and Piano, K. 481
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 9 for Piano and Violin in A Major, op. 47 ("Kreutzer")

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CLIBURN AT THE KIMBELL: MASTERS

Brentano String Quartet  + Haochen Zhang  Thurs., Oct. 27 and Fri., Oct. 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Since forming in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has specialized in “exemplary performances [and] startling musical revelations” (The Guardian, London). Regularly touring around the world to popular and critical acclaim, the Quartet is synonymous with “passionate, uninhibited and spell-binding” (The Independent, London) performances. The group provided chamber music for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013 and will do so again in 2017.

The gold medalist of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang has sold out tours of China and has appeared with luminary conductors like Valery Gergiev and the late Lorin Maazel. He’s captivated audiences throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas with a “combination of enchanting, sensitive lyricism and hypnotizing forcefulness… a phenomenon encountered very rarely” (The Jerusalem Post). 

PROGRAM:

TBA

On one of the most exciting and in-demand voices of the day, The New York Times said Nathan Gunn “commands an operatic baritone whose mighty heft and richness confer an outsize authority on everything he touches.” The frequent recitalist is also a supporter of new works, creating the roles of Yeshua in Mark Adamo’s The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (San Francisco Opera), Paul in Daron Hagen’s Amelia (Seattle Opera), Alec Harvey in André Previn’s Brief Encounter (Houston Grand Opera), and Clyde Griffiths in Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy (Metropolitan Opera).

PROGRAM:

Richard Goode, piano         Thurs. Feb. 23 and Fri., Feb. 24, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

His music making is the stuff of legend: tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness. Richard Goode “impresses…better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations and communicating perceptions that stay in the mind” (Gramophone), and he returns to Fort Worth with a recital of Bach and Chopin.

PROGRAM:

BACH Three Preludes & Fugues from the Well-Tempered Klavier
BACH French Overture in B Minor, BWV 831
CHOPIN Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, op. 47
            Nocturne in E Minor, op. posth.
            Nocturne in B Major, op. 9, no. 3
            Four Mazurkas, op. 24
            Nocturne in E Major, op. 62, no. 2
            Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, op. 52

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CLIBURN AT THE KIMBELL: VIRTUOSOS

Sean Chen, piano         Thurs., Sept. 22, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Third-prize winner at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Sean Chen “has an exceptional ability to connect with an audience combined with an easy virtuosity” (Huffington Post), which makes it fitting that the pianist has the first recital in the Cliburn’s new Virtuosos series. His “alluring, colorfully shaded” (The New York Times) performances worldwide have yielded a global fan base, and his talent has been recognized as “One to Watch” by International Piano magazine.

PROGRAM:

BACH-GODOWSKY Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2 
COPLAND Piano Variations
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin 

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Behzod Abduraimov, piano         Thurs., Nov. 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Unite charisma with “fingers that seem as though they were made to create rainbows” (Los Angeles Times), and you’ve got Behzod Abduraimov. A former student of 2001 Cliburn winner Stanislav Ioudenitch, the in-demand touring artist has gone on to perform in the world’s music capitals and with conductors such at James Gaffigan, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Valery Gergiev—and now makes his Cliburn Concerts debut.

PROGRAM:

VIVALDI-BACH-CORTOT "Sicilana" from Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596
BACH-BUSONI Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
SCHUBERT Moments musicaux Nos. 2 and 3, op. 94, D. 780
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, op. 57 ("Appasionata") 
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 6, op. 82
BALAKIREV Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)

Avi Avital, mandolin + Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord         Thurs., Feb. 9, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Critics have marveled about Avi Avital’s “exquisitely sensitive playing” and “stunning agility” (The New York Times) on the mandolin. The Grammy^®-nominated musician—who was the first mandolinist to ever receive the honor—has talent that knows no bounds. His first appearance in North Texas, with noted harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss, is sure to be a showcase of stellar strings.

CLIBURN AT THE MODERN

"American Piano"  Sat., Oct. 8, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

In this afternoon performance, six North Texas pianists will take on diverse works written for the piano in the last 20 years, from Jennifer Higdon to John Corigliano, William Bolcom to Radiohead. Among the not-to-miss highlights, the Cliburn's Shields-Collins Bray, artistic director of special programs, will perform a piece written for 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Stanislav Ioudenitch, plus Pamela Mia Paul, screening juror for the 2017 VCIPC, will perform Higdon's Secret and Glass Gardens. 

Gabriela Lena Frank, composer       Sat., April 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

“With each new piece, Frank becomes a more exciting and necessary voice,” the Los Angeles Times has said about the composer, who is inspired by the works of both Bela Bartók and Alberto Ginastera. A musical anthropologist, Gabriela Lena Frank’s work is at once identity-focused—her mother is of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and her father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent—yet keenly globally minded.

PROGRAM:

TBA

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CLIBURN SESSIONS

VOCES8, a cappella         Tues., Nov. 1, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

One of the most accomplished and acclaimed singing groups in the world, the a cappella octet VOCES8—whose repertory spans early English choral works to jazz and pop—is “impeccable in its quality of tone and balance, [bringing] a new dimension to the word ‘ensemble’ with meticulous timing and tuning” (Gramophone). 

PROGRAM:

TBA

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Conrad Tao, piano               Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

The prodigiously talented Conrad Tao is an “explosive force,” with a “hefty dash of charm” (The Baltimore Sun), who has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer since age 4. With repertoire ranging from Bach to Julia Wolfe, his performances showcase his “probing intellect and openhearted vision” (The New York Times).

PROGRAM:

TBA

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Sybarite5, string quintet          Thurs., March 9, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

From Mozart to Radiohead and Purcell to Akiho, Sybarite5’s eclectic repertoire and commanding performance style is turning heads throughout the music world—with carefully crafted programs that The Washington Post raved have “serial high points.” The string quintet is changing the perception of chamber music one concert at a time, sure to “satisfy you inner rock star and your secret Mozart” (Arizona Daily Star).

PROGRAM:

Sybarite5 is always on the lookout for new tunes and composers that speak with a unique and relevant voice. Outliers is a program of works written by the group's favorite composers mixed with music from the friends they've made traveling the world performing the music they love. Sybarite5 plays the music of their friends Shawn Conley, Jessica Meyer, Michael Gilbertson and pairs with the group's favorite works of Armenian folk music, Piazzolla, Pete Seger, Elgar, and Radiohead.

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ABOUT 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 (Fifteenth edition, May 25–June 10, 2017) is widely-recognized as “one of the world’s highest-visibility classical-music contests” (The Dallas Morning News) 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 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition for outstanding non-professional pianists 35 and older, and held its inaugural Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival in June 2015, for exceptional 13 to 17-year-old pianists (Second edition, June 2019). 

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. 

Cliburn Sponsors are:
Arts Council of Fort Worth
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
The Edith Winther Grace Charitable Trust, J.P. Morgan, Trustee
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
William E. Scott Foundation

Exclusive Print Media Sponsor:
Star-Telegram 

Official Piano of the Cliburn:
Steinway & Sons – North Texas / Houston    

Official Hotel of the Cliburn:
Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel

 

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