Fort Worth, Texas, August 26, 2010:
The Van Cliburn Foundation presents Haochen Zhang
at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on
September 14, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
for a concert including performances of Chopin's Four Ballades,
Brahms' Klavierstücke op. 118, and Ginastera's Sonata No. 1, op.
22. Single tickets start at $15 and are available from Central
Ticket Office at 800.462.7979 or online at
Cliburn.org.
Zhang will also appear at a private event on September
13 with the social group for music supporters in their 20s
and 30s, Cliburn 180s, at Blue Sushi Sake Grill.
The event, Cocktails and Conversations, will include a meet and
greet with Zhang, during which he will answer questions from
attendees. Those interested in joining the Cliburn 180s and
attending this event can visit
Cliburn.org and click on Cliburn 180s.
The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medalist of the Thirteenth
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Haochen Zhang recently
gave an enthusiastically received performance at the outdoor
Mann Center for Performing Arts on "a night when the audience most
likely broke a sweat while cheering rather than just listening,"
reported the Philadelphia Enquirer.
A sensitive musician and insightful programmer, Zhang returns to
Fort Worth after a little over a year's worth of concert dates in
the United States, Europe, and Asia, including engagements with the
Aspen Summer Music Festival and Academy, the Washington Performing
Arts Society, the Beijing Music Festival, and as part of Carnegie
Hall's "Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating
Chinese Culture" as well as the orchestras of Santo Domingo, San
Francisco, and Colorado.
In the summer of 2010, Zhang celebrated his Cliburn win in a gala
event featuring all three medalists of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition with the National Orchestra of the
Dominican Republic. In June 2010 he opened the summer season
at the Mann Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia, performing
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 with the
Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Rossen Milanov. He
made his New York City recital debut at Avery Fisher Hall as part
of the Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival in July.
About the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition
After two months of screening recitals in China, Germany,
Russia, Italy, and the United States, a panel of five judges
selected 30 pianists from a field of 151 to compete in the
Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held at the
Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas
on May 22 to June 7, 2009.
At stake was an unparalleled opportunity to be propelled onto the
world stage as a champion of classical music. The competitors would
not only be vying for a traditional cash prize; the elite group of
Cliburn Competition finalists would find themselves in an immediate
whirlwind of activity, with three years of national concert tours
managed free of commission by the Cliburn Foundation. Those who
earned a gold medal would also travel the world, performing
engagements under the management of IMG Artists Europe. At the
conclusion of three intensive weeks of competition, six finalists
emerged to embark on their journeys. Between June 2009 and May
2012, they will collectively play over 300 concert dates, earning
more than $1,000,000.
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tour of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries and a syndicated radio series dedicated
to the competition and its most memorable performances. By making
the competition available in its entirety on the Internet, the
Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners in every corner
of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches over 30,000 elementary
school students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings. In 1999, it established the quadrennial International
Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which The Boston Globe
proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who have to make
music, no matter what."
Visit
Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition in 2012. |
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Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines; Crystelle Waggoner
Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee; City of Fort Worth;
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