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STEVEN LIN PERFORMS AT MAIN STREET ARTS FESTIVAL AND CLIBURN IN THE COMMUNITY RECITALS


All concerts will be 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, March 26, 2015—2013 Cliburn Competition Jury Discretionary Award Winner Steven Lin will perform at this year’s Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival on Friday, April 10, 2015, at 7 p.m. at Sundance Square Plaza with a 60-minute recital. The performance will be free and open to the public.

The Cliburn also invites Arts Festival attendees to visit the new Cliburn “Play Me” Piano Lounge at 2nd & Main Streets in downtown Fort Worth (in front of the Wells Fargo Tower) from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily April 9–12, 2015. Located just outside the new Cliburn offices, the piano lounge will house a beautiful Steinway & Sons grand piano, open and available for anyone to play. Non-pianists will be able to enjoy cool drinks at nearby cocktail tables while listening to others perform and can also play on the Cliburn’s Giant Floor Piano—like the one featured in the movie “Big!” Grand piano provided by Steinway & Sons – North Texas / Houston.

During the same weekend, the Cliburn will also present the second installment of 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 North Texas. The program brings in young, emerging artists for weeklong residencies that include performances and other community engagement opportunities.

Cliburn in the Community concerts with 2013 Cliburn Competition John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award Winner Steven Lin:

Thursday, Apr. 9, 6:30 p.m.      Fort Worth Central Library       Full recital

Saturday, Apr. 11, 10:30 a.m.  Steinway Hall – Plano              Master class

Saturday, Apr. 11, 6 p.m.         Benbrook Library                    45-minute recital

Mr. Lin will also perform private recitals for the Stayton, Brighter Outlook, and H.O.P.E. Farm.

Taiwanese American pianist Steven Lin is an immediately engaging and imaginative young artist, applauded by the New York Times for playing that is “…immaculately voiced and enhanced by admirable subtleties of shading and dynamics,” and his growing list of awards features the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.  In May 2014, his dynamic playing at Israel’s Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition was recognized when he was awarded the Silver Medal as well as numerous performance prize engagements in Israel and internationally. For more information about Steven Lin, visit: http://www.concertartists.org/artist/steven-lin

“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.”

Cliburn in the Community is sponsored by Southwest Bank.
 

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 26–June 11, 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 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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