April 25, 2024

The Cliburn announces its 2024–2025 Cliburn Concerts season, the 47th year of its signature annual recital series. Subscriptions—including choose-your-own packages—are on sale now. Single tickets will go on sale May 16, 2024.

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This is music with something to say.

Two Cliburn medalists, two of classical music’s most ingenious composer-performers, two global icons of classical piano, and SIX Cliburn debuts across voice, violin, cello, and piano. The world’s critics have called performances by this year’s Cliburn Concerts artists “deeply resonant,” “probing,” and “captivating”—filled with “kinetic, forward-looking music,” “inspired musicianship—and more than a few surprises.”

Come hear for yourself this season, with six gorgeously intimate performances in the Renzo Piano Pavilion of the Kimbell Art Museum and four captivating casual Cliburn Sessions concerts at Fort Worth’s best clubs.

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JOYCE YANG, piano
2005 Cliburn Silver Medalist
Thursday, September 19, 2024  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

JOSEPH PARRISH, bass-baritone
Cliburn Concerts debut
Wednesday, October 16, 2024  I  8:00 p.m.
Venue TBA
Cliburn Sessions Subscription

GABRIEL KAHANE, piano/singer/composer + CAROLINE SHAW, violin/singer/composer
All-new collaboration
Tuesday, November 12, 2024  I  8:00 p.m.
Venue TBA
Cliburn Sessions Subscription

SIR STEPHEN HOUGH, piano
2022 Cliburn Juror and Composer of the Commissioned Work
Wednesday, January 29, 2025  I  8:00 p.m.
Venue TBA
    Cliburn Sessions Subscription

Thursday, January 30, 2025  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
    Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

HAOCHEN ZHANG, piano
2009 Cliburn Gold Medalist
Thursday, February 27, 2025  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
    Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

SIMONE PORTER, violin + BLAKE POULIOT, violin + HSIN-I HUANG, piano
Cliburn Concerts debuts
Wednesday, March 26, 2025  I  8:00 p.m.
Venue TBA
    Cliburn Sessions Subscription

Thursday, March 27, 2025  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
    Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS, cello + ALEXANDER MELNIKOV, piano
Cliburn Concerts debuts
Thursday, April 10, 2025  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

EMANUEL AX, piano
Eight-time GRAMMY® Award Winner
    Tuesday, April 22, 2025  I  7:30 p.m.
Kimbell Art Museum Renzo Piano Pavilion
Cliburn at the Kimbell Subscription

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Cliburn Concerts will again offer a choose-your-own subscription, where patrons may select anywhere from four to six of the performances at the Kimbell Art Museum to create their own season. Subscription prices range from $95–$210 for four concerts; $115–$255 for five concerts; and $130–$320 for six concerts. For the first time, Platinum Subscription Upgrades are offered for $200 this season at any Cliburn at the Kimbell price level. Benefits include a pre-season reception, premium seating, a post-concert reception with an artist, and complimentary artist CDs, as available.

New this season, all Cliburn at the Kimbell concerts are without intermission and will be approximately 60–75 minutes in length.

Cliburn Sessions subscriptions are available for $160, which include four casual club concerts at venues to be announced.

 

December 13, 2023

The Cliburn is proud to announce the artistic collaborators for the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 21–June 7, 2025, at Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Marin Alsop—one of the foremost conductors of our time and the first woman to serve as the head of a major orchestra in the United States, South America, Austria, and Britain—returns to the Cliburn to again lead the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the Final Round after her 2022 appearance as both conductor and jury chair. Carlos Miguel Prieto—famed Mexican conductor, influential cultural lead and educator, and newly named music director of the North Carolina Symphony—will conduct the all-Mozart Semifinal Round.

Learn more about 2025 Artistic Collaborators

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Additionally announced are the members of the 2025 Cliburn Competition Screening Jury: Philippe Bianconi, Alexander Kobrin, Momo Kodama, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Roberto Plano. All members of the panel combine distinguished performance careers with a commitment to nurturing the next generation of artists. They will be charged with selecting the 30 competitors from the pool of up to 84 pianists invited to the Screening Auditions, taking place March 9–15, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Learn more about the 2025 Screening Jury