FORT WORTH, Texas, October 13, 2015—The Cliburn announces the schedule for this year’s fall installment of the Cliburn in the Community program, a community 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 brings in young, emerging artists for weeklong residencies to include performances and other community engagement opportunities.

Cliburn in the Community launches the 2015–2016 season this month with performances by Peter Klimo, second prize winner at the 2014 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Mr. Klimo will also perform private recitals for Catholic Charities and 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.

“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.”

ABOUT PETER KLIMO
Hungarian-American pianist Peter Klimo won second prize in the 10th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in November 2014, with a final round performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Gaffigan. His triumph at the Liszt Competition has earned him many concert engagements around the world, with performances during the 2015–2016 season taking him to Seoul, South Korea; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Budapest, Hungary; across the United States, including California, Connecticut, and Kentucky; and on a European tour with the Belenus Quartet.

Recent performance highlights include concerto performances with the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Arts Center Festival Orchestra and conductor Dae-Jin Kim. Also a passionate chamber musician, Mr. Klimo performed Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion at the Kennedy Center in February 2013 and at the Dakota Sky International Piano Festival in August 2013. Also in summer 2013, he attended the Vancouver International Song Institute and was also a faculty member for the inaugural year of the DBS Summer Music Festival in Hong Kong. In 2012, he won the Second Place pianist’s prize at the Jessie Kniesel Lieder Competition.

Mr. Klimo has been studying piano since the age of 9. A Los Angeles native, he began his piano studies with Vicharini and Rosanna Marzaroli and continued with Dr. Tyler Tom. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in May 2012 studying with Dr. Nelita True, and his master’s degree from the Yale School of Music studying with Peter Frankl. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at TCU with Dr. Tamás Ungár.

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 is widely recognized as “one of the world’s highest-visibility classical music contests” (Dallas Morning News) and remains committed to its original ideals of supporting and launching the careers of young pianists, age 18 to 30 (fifteenth edition May 25–June 10, 2017). It shares the transformative powers of music with a wide global audience, through fully produced webcasts 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 Junior Piano Competition and Festival for exceptional 13 to 17-year-old pianists (inaugural edition June 21–28, 2015), and the Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition for outstanding non-professional pianists age 35 and older (seventh edition June 19–25, 2016).

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 more than 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.

Cliburn Sponsors are

Amon G. Carter Foundation
Arts Council of Fort Worth
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
The Pangburn Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Trustee
ExxonMobil / XTO Energy
Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation
Sid W. Richardson Foundation 

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