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A curated library of performances from past Cliburn Competitions featuring hand-picked playlists each covering a different theme.

Videos from the 2025 Cliburn Preliminary Round Day 1

Dance rhythms have always fascinated composers. J.S. Bach and his peers composed whole suites of music based on country dances. Chopin found inspiration in that realm and went into the countryside write his mazurkas. Ravel, Debussy, and Sibelius reframed the rhythms of dance through a more modern sensibility, and Stravinsky wrote music for dance his whole life!

2025 Cliburn Competitor Carter Johnson

2025 Cliburn Competitor Philipp Lynov

2025 Cliburn Competitor Angel Stanislav Wang

The Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—named “one of the most prestigious contests in classical music” by The New York Times—takes place May 21–June 7, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

2025 Cliburn Competitor Vitaly Starikov

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