Fort Worth, Texas, June 18, 2015—The First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, taking place June 21–28, 2015, at TCU's PepsiCo Recital Hall and Ed Landreth Auditorium, will provide many opportunities for music lovers to engage both inside the concert hall and online.
IN PERSON
ATTEND PERFORMANCES
- Live and breathe the action in person by being an audience member at PepsiCo Recital Hall and Ed Landreth Auditorium
- Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now at http://www.cliburn.org/competitions/junior-competition/tickets/
- Final Rounds are performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Maestra Mei-Ann Chen
- Patrons must be 8 years or older to attend performances.
ATTEND FREE EVENTS
Enjoy community performances by some of our Junior Competitors outside the competition environment, and symposia and workshops covering topics from the psychology of performance to how to work with an orchestra. All symposia and workshops take place in PepsiCo Recital Hall.
- COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES
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- Thursday, June 25, 2015
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Fort Worth Central Library, 500 W. 3rd Street
- Saturday, June 27, 2015
12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Sundance Square Plaza, downtown Fort Worth
- SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
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- "The Psychology of Performance" with Dr. William Westney
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
10:30 a.m. to Noon
PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU, 2800 S. University Drive
Is perfectionism healthy or not? Should we avoid mistakes or embrace them? In this lively and candid presentation, pianist and author William Westney will challenge much of the “conventional wisdom” about music lessons, relating musical processes to other fields of endeavor and recent neurological findings. Attendees are invited to bring in specific technical “trouble spots” from their repertoire for demonstration work during this insightful lecture.
- SYMPOSIUM: Career Building in the 21st Century
Moderated by Shields-Collins Bray, artist consultant, The Cliburn
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
10:30 a.m. to Noon
PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU, 2800 S. University Drive
Pianists Elizabeth Joy Roe, Greg Anderson, Mari Kodama, and Pedagogue Christopher Elton discuss topics ranging from launching new careers; to the role of competitions, agents, presenters, and artists; to the importance of public image and self-promotion.
- SYMPOSIUM: Practical Performance Preparation
Moderated by Sandra Doan, director of artistic planning, The Cliburn
Thursday, June 25, 2015
10:30 a.m. to Noon
PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU, 2800 S. University Drive
Pianists Jon Nakamatsu, Jon Kimura Parker, Orli Shaham, and Blanca Uribe discuss programming, piano selection, hall acoustics, recording, and everything that goes into creating a successful performance.
- WORKSHOP with conductor Mei-Ann Chen
Moderated by Shields-Collins Bray, artist consultant, The Cliburn
Friday, June 26, 2015
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU, 2800 S. University Drive
Dynamic Maestra Mei-Ann Chen, who will conduct the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the Final Round, will lead a discussion on working with orchestras and conductors. Cliburn 2013 Third Prize Winner Sean Chen will join her for a demonstration of Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto.
- SYMPOSIUM with the Junior Competition Jury
Moderated by Jacques Marquis, president and CEO, The Cliburn
Saturday, June 27, 2015
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU, 2800 S. University Drive
The seven distinguished members of the Junior Competition jury will consider how technique, artistic sensibilities, and artists’ careers evolve.
ONLINE
WEBCAST
- Available at Cliburn.org, the webcast will bring the Competition to life around the world in real time with hours of live broadcasts of performances, interview segments, and awards ceremony over the 8-day period.
- All performances and videos will be available live and on demand
- Piano duo Anderson & Roe will serve as webcast hosts for the first time ever. They will provide competitor information and Competition commentary, and conduct interviews to provide behind-the-scenes insight. http://www.andersonroe.com/
AUDIENCE CHAT
- Online viewers are encouraged to share their thoughts through Twitter. Tweets that use the hashtag #CliburnJR will be retweeted on the Cliburn’s stream. The live stream will be visible on the Cliburn.org webcast page.
AUDIENCE VOTE
- Patrons both in the Hall and around the world are encouraged to vote for their favorite competitors each day on Cliburn.org.
- Participants can vote once a day for a competitor active in the Competition at that time.
- Results will be tallied on Sunday, June 28, and the competitor with the most votes will be awarded the Audience Award at the Final Awards Ceremony, with a cash prize of $1,000.
SOCIAL MEDIA
- We encourage music lovers to engage with us via these social media platforms using the hashtag #CliburnJR:
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BROADCAST
- WRR Classical 101.1 FM
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- WRR will air a combination of live and taped reports during the Competition and will broadcast the Final Round performance live on air. http://www.wrr101.com/
- American Public Media's Performance Today
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- Host Fred Child will air a report about the Competition, as well as recorded performances following its conclusion.
ABOUT THE FIRST CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR PIANO COMPETITION AND FESTIVAL
The First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival for 13 to 17-year-old pianists, takes place June 21–28, 2015, in Ed Landreth Auditorium and PepsiCo Hall on the campus of TCU, and welcomes 23 of the world's finest young pianists to Texas. The competitors hail from all over the world, representing 13 countries: the United States (9), China (5), Canada, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Tajikistan. A selection committee chose the competitors from an impressive applicant pool of 160 young pianists, through online applications and video submissions of 15 to 20 minutes. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will perform with each of three finalists under the baton of dynamic conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Competition performances will be open to the public, and will also be webcast live at Cliburn.org.
COMPETITORS: For a complete listing of competitors, including biographies and repertoire, please visit: http://www.cliburn.org/competitions/junior-competition/competitors/
JURY: 1997 Cliburn Gold Medalist, in-demand touring artist, and esteemed adjudicator Jon Nakamatsu (United States) will serve as chairman of the jury. Other jury members include: Christopher Elton (United Kingdom), Mari Kodama (Japan), John Kimura Parker (Canada), Orli Shaham (Israel/United States), and Blanca Uribe (Colombia). For biographies: http://www.cliburn.org/competitions/junior-competition/jury/
TICKETS: Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now, and all seating is general admission. (Subscribers will be seated in a reserved section with open seating.) Complete Competition subscriptions are $110. Tickets to individual concerts are: free for the Preliminaries; $10 for the Quarterfinals; $20 for the Semifinals; and $40 for the Finals. For additional information about and to purchase tickets for the First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival in Fort Worth, please visit http://www.cliburn.org/competitions/junior-competition/tickets
All Festival events are free and open to the public.
GENERAL INFORMATION AND PARKING: Answers to frequently asked questions, including about free parking for all events, can be found at http://www.cliburn.org/competitions/junior-competition/general-information-and-parking/
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 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 PBS documentary, Virtuosity, the story of Fourteenth Cliburn competition, will air nationally on July 31, 2015 at 9 p.m. ET, in a potential 105 million households.
Detailed information about the Cliburn and its programs is available at Cliburn.org.
Corporate and Foundation Sponsors of the First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival are:
Alcon
BNSF Railway Foundation
Ann L. & Carol Green Rhodes Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee
Fifth Avenue Foundation
Fort Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau
Fort Worth Piano Teachers Forum
Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Founation
The Frill Foundation
GWR Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation of North Texas
The Garvey Texas Foundation
Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation
Martha V. Leonard Fund of the Community Foundation of North Texas
Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation
National Endowment for theArts
Northern Trust
Pier 1 Imports
Pinnacle Bank
Qurumbli Foundation
Texas Commission on the Arts
The Ryan Foundation
Tarrant Technology
William E. Scott Foundation
Exclusive Print Media Sponsor:
Star-Telegram
Official Piano:
Steinway & Sons – North Texas / Houston
Official Sponsors of the Cliburn:
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County
The Burnett Foundation
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
BNSF Railway Foundation
Jane and John Justin Foundation
The Pangburn Foundation, J.P. Morgan, trustee
Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation
Ann L. & Carol Green Rhodes Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee
Steinway & Sons – North Texas / Houston
ExxonMobil / XTO Energy
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