Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is an American piano competition, first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Initially held at Texas Christian University, the competition has been held at the Bass Performance Hall since 2001. The competition is named in honour of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, in 1958.

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• Van cliburn international piano competition gold medalist
• Nobuyuki tsujii liszt paganini etude no 3 2009 van cliburn international piano competition wide
• Top prize winners
• References

The Van Cliburn Competition is held every four years, in the year after the United States presidential elections. The winners and runners-up receive substantial cash prizes, plus concert tours at world-famous venues where they perform pieces of their choice. Whilst Cliburn was alive, he did not serve as a judge in the competition, provide financial support, or work in its operations. However, he attended performances by competitors regularly and greeted them afterwards on occasion.

Contestants draw lots for their performing place in the competition. The competition began on-line audio streaming of the performances in 1997. In 2009, the competition webcast all of the performances live for the first time in its history.