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FORT WORTH, Texas, March 9, 2012-Alann Bedford
Sampson, Van Cliburn Foundation interim president and CEO, today
announced the artists for the 2012-2013 Cliburn Concerts season.
This unique performance series presents the world's most elite
classical artists to North Texas audiences
annually. Subscription packages for the
upcoming season range from $66 to $400 and go on sale
Friday, March 9 at 10:00
a.m. online
at Cliburn.org or by
calling 817.212.4280.
This season is offered as a meaningful commemoration of a
half-century of transcendent music making, as the Foundation
celebrates its 50th Anniversary. It begins with a jubilant concert
celebration featuring four Cliburn gold
medalists-spanning the history of the
competition-performing together with the Fort Worth
Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Later in the series,
the Cliburn welcomes back 1966 Gold Medalist and preeminent
pianist Radu Lupu, perennial Cliburn Concerts
favorite and rock star violinist Joshua Bell,
and elegant 2009 Cliburn Silver Medalist Yeol eum
Son-each returning for outstanding recital appearances.
Audiences will also enjoy the Brentano String
Quartet in concert before they make their competition
debut in May 2013 at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
The Cliburn recently continued its longstanding commitment to
new music with the announcement of its 11th special commission,
awarded to Christopher Theofanidis for
the 2013 Competition. He will be appearing at Cliburn at the Modern
this season to give audiences a preview of his body of
work. Also featured this year are other , noted
American composersDerek Bermel
and John Bucchino.
2012-2013 CLIBURN CONCERTS AT A
GLANCE
CLIBURN AT THE BASS
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bass Performance
Hall, located at 4th & Calhoun Streets in
downtown Fort Worth.
Thursday, September 6, 2012-50th Anniversary
Gold Medalists Concert
Tuesday, November 13, 2012-Brentano String
Quartet
Monday, January 28, 2013-Radu Lupu, piano
Monday, February 18, 2013-Joshua Bell,
violin
Tuesday, March 12, 2013-Yeol eum Son, piano
CLIBURN AT THE MODERN
All performances begin at 2:00 p.m. at the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth, located at 3200 Darnell Street in Fort Worth's
Cultural District.
Saturday, October 13, 2012-Derek Bermel,
composer
Saturday, January 19, 2013-John Bucchino,
composer
Saturday, April 6, 2013-Christopher Theofanidis,
composer
2012-2013 CLIBURN CONCERTS DESCRIPTIONS
CLIBURN AT THE BASS
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bass Performance
Hall.
50TH ANNIVERSARY GOLD MEDALISTS CONCERT
Thursday, September 6, 2012
featuring Ralph Votapek (1962), André-Michel Schub (1981),
Alexander Kobrin (2005), and Haochen Zhang (2009)
with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra,
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
This definitive celebration of the Cliburn's 50th Anniversary
will feature four gold medalists-spanning the
half century of the competition's history-together on stage for an
extraordinary concert experience. They will join the Fort Worth
Symphony under the baton of its much sought-after music director,
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, to perform a specially-crafted program of
concerti.
Program: BACH Concerto for Four Pianos in A minor, BWV 1065;
POULENC Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra;
MENDELSSOHN Concerto No. 2 in A-flat major for Two Pianos and
Orchestra
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin; Misha Amory, viola;
Nina Lee, cello
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String
Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular
and critical acclaim. The New York
Times extols its "luxuriously warm sound" and "yearning
lyricism," and the Philadelphia Inquirer praises
its "seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of
gravity in every phrase and musical gesture." Welcome them to Fort
Worth just six months before they take the Bass Hall stage again to
perform with each semifinalist of the Fourteenth Cliburn
Competition.
Program to be announced.
RADU LUPU, piano
1966 Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist
Monday, January 28, 2013
Radu Lupu is firmly established as
one of the most important musicians of his generation and is widely
acknowledged as a leading interpreter of the works of Beethoven,
Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. Since winning the Second Cliburn
Competition in 1966 and the Leeds Piano Competition in 1969, Mr.
Lupu has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the
musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and the United
States. A Grammy® Award winner, he has made more
than 20 recordings for London/Decca.
Program: FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue; SCHUBERT Four
Impromptus, Op. 142; DEBUSSY Preludes, Book II
JOSHUA BELL, violin
Monday, February 18, 2013
Joshua Bell enchants audiences worldwide
with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty, earning
him the title "classical music superstar." An Avery Fisher Prize
recipient andMusical America's 2010 Instrumentalist of the
Year, he is the newly named music director for The Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields. Mr. Bell came to national attention at age 14
in his debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Today he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician,
orchestra leader, and composer.
Program to be announced.
YEOL EUM SON, piano
2009 Cliburn Competition Silver Medalist
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Yeol eum Son's graceful interpretations,
crystalline touch, and versatile, thrilling performances have
caught the attention of audiences worldwide since her 2009 triumph
at the Thirteenth Cliburn Competition, where she claimed both the
Silver Medal and the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best
Performance of Chamber Music. Most recently, she took second prize
at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Music Competition in Moscow,
where she also received awards for Best Chamber Concerto
Performance and Best Performance of a Commissioned Work.
Program: WEBER-LISZT Overture from the Opera Der
Freischutz; SCHUBERT-GODOWSKYLitanei auf das Fest
Allerseelen, D. 343; Wiegenlied;
MENDELSSOHN-RACHMANINOFF Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream";
STRAUSS-TAUSIG Man lebt nur einmal, Op. 167;
BEETHOVEN 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120
CLIBURN AT THE MODERN
All performances begin at 2:00 p.m. at the Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth.
DEREK BERMEL, composer
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Grammy-nominated composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has been
widely hailed for his creativity and theatricality. His works draw
from a rich variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz,
pop, rock, blues, folk, and gospel. Currently serving as
composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and
creative adviser to the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie
Hall, Mr. Bermel has received commissions from many of the world's
top orchestras, chamber ensembles, and soloists.
JOHN BUCCHINO, composer
Saturday, January 19, 2013
American composer John Bucchino's songs
have been performed and recorded by renowned pop, theatre, cabaret,
and classical artists including Liza Minnelli, Judy Collins, Yo-Yo
Ma, Art Garfunkel, Patti LuPone, Deborah Voigt, Michael Feinstein,
Audra McDonald, The Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in venues including Carnegie Hall, The
Metropolitan Opera, The Hollywood Bowl, The Sydney Opera House, and
The White House. The program will feature performances of Mr.
Bucchino's work by Fort Worth Opera's Studio Artists.
CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS, composer
Saturday, April 6, 2013
A native of Dallas,
Texas, Christopher
Theofanidis is one of the most
widely-performed American composers today. A Grammy Award nominee,
he writes regularly for a variety of musical genres, from
orchestral and chamber music to opera and ballet, and was
commissioned in 1998 to write Fanfare Rising
for the opening of Bass Performance Hall. His
work, Rainbow Body, has been programmed by over 120
orchestras internationally. He has been commissioned to compose a
new solo piano work to be performed by each semifinalist in the
2013 Cliburn Competition.
ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music
worldwide, and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through
the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, radio broadcasts, and a live webcast
that extends its outreach to listeners around the world. In 2009,
over 2,857,573 total streams were delivered to viewers from 157
countries/territories.
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition will take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at
Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall and will welcome 30 of the
world's finest young pianists to Texas. Continuing its longstanding
commitment to new music, the Cliburn has selected composer
Christopher Theofanidis to write the commissioned work that will be
performed by all competitors during the Semifinal Round.
Additionally, the Competition has been dedicated to showcasing both
the extraordinary talent of its competitors in recital performance
as well as their ability to collaborate with other musicians. The
Fourteenth Competition will mark the first Cliburn appearance by
the world-renowned Brentano String Quartet performing a piano
quintet with each of the 12 semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony
Orchestra, which has appeared at
every Cliburn Competition, will
perform two concerti with each of the six finalists, under the
baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John
Giordano will serve as chairman of the jury for his eleventh
Competition since assuming the post in 1973.
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 33,000
elementary school students annually with the education programs
of Musical Awakenings®. In
1999, it established the 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." The sixth Amateur
Competition was held May 23-29, 2011, at Ed Landreth Auditorium on
the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn during its
50th Anniversary year in 2012.
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