FORT WORTH, Texas, September 23, 2015—This season, CLIBURN LIVE will webcast recitals by two of the best pianists performing today: Marc-André Hamelin on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. CDT, and Garrick Ohlsson on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. CDT. Viewers from around the world will be able to watch both concerts live from Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas for free on Cliburn.org and Youtube. Performances will be posted online within one week following the concert for on-demand viewing, pending artist approval. This marks the first time that the Cliburn will webcast a performance by a pianist that is not a Cliburn winner or competitor. CLIBURN LIVE will also air the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition from June 19–25, 2016.
CLIBURN LIVE SCHEDULE
Marc-André Hamelin
Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. CDT
Bass Performance Hall
PROGRAM
MOZART Sonata in D Major, K. 576
DEBUSSY Images, Book II
HAMELIN Variations on a Theme by Paganini (2011)
SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
Garrick Ohlsson
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. CDT
Bass Performance Hall
PROGRAM
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110
SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (“Der Wanderer”)
CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, op. 54
Etude in E Minor, op. 25, no. 5
Etude in G-sharp Minor, op. 25, no. 6
Nocturne in C Minor, op. 48, no. 1
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, op. 23
“The Cliburn’s mission is to share classical music with the widest audience possible,” said Jacques Marquis, president and CEO. “The viewership of the competition webcasts has grown exponentially every four years and is an extremely valuable tool to fulfilling that mandate. We have an expertise in broadcasting live concerts online and are presenting the finest artists annually in Fort Worth. It’s a natural extension to showcase these concerts internationally as well—and a way to bring people from across the world to the Cliburn much more often.”
The Cliburn’s history of webcasting spans 14 years and has included four Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions from Bass Hall (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013), one Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition from TCU (2011), the Van Cliburn Memorial Concert from Sundance Square Plaza (2014), the First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival (2015), and two Cliburn Concerts at Bass Performance Hall (2014–2015). Over a four-year period, CLIBURN LIVE garners the world’s attention with over one million visits from 155 nations for live concert and competition webcasts.
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Marc-André Hamelin’s blend of startlingly original musicianship and virtuosity has earned him legendary status as a true avatar of the piano. Long known for his matchless exploration of unfamiliar pianistic terrain, he is now recognized worldwide for the originality and technical brilliance of his performances of the classic repertoire. His career has been replete with accolades—among them nine Grammy nominations, the 2014 ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of the Year, and the German Record Critics’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Writing in The New Yorker, Alex Ross praised his “monstrously brilliant technique and his questing, deepthinking approach” and called Hamelin’s hands “among the wonders of the musical world.”
Marc-André Hamelin will serve on the jury for the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He has also been commissioned to compose a new work for the Competition, to be performed by all 30 competitors during the preliminary round. This marks the first time that the composer of the commissioned work will also serve on the jury. Details on the piece will be released in early 2017, and competitors will receive it no later than March 25, 2017.
GARRICK OHLSSON
Since his triumph at the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition (the only American winner ever), pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, the Grammy Award winner commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. (To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him.) In this season-closing concert, he’ll perform works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin.
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.
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