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The medalists of the 2022 Cliburn Competition—Yunchan Lim, Anna Geniushene, and Dmytro Choni—announce new dates for their 2024–2025 performance tours, including recent and upcoming highlights.

Anyang native Changyong Shin has garnered international attention with first-prize wins at the Gina Bachauer, Seoul, and Hilton Head International Piano Competitions. He has studied in the United States since 2016, earning a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and master’s degree and artist diploma from The Juilliard School under the guidance of Robert McDonald. He is currently studying with Wha Kyung Byun at New England Conservatory as an artist diploma student.

The Ninth Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition will take place in Fort Worth, Texas in June 2028. Further details regarding application, venues, jury, competition schedule, and festival events will be announced in 2027.

Read the latest in competition announcements, career updates from medalists, profiles on the Cliburn community, and local concerts.

2025 Cliburn Competitor Jonathan Mamora

Your guide to Fort Worth during the 2025 Cliburn Competition

Application & Rules for the 2025 Cliburn Competition

Now in his third decade of touring worldwide, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw critical and public acclaim for his intensity, elegance, and electrifying solo, concerto, and chamber music performances. Catapulted to international attention in 1997 as the gold medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—the only American to achieve this distinction since 1981—he subsequently developed a multi-faceted career that encompasses recording, education, arts administration, and public speaking, in addition to his vast concert schedule.

The Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will take place May 21–June 7, 2025, at Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

The complete collection of Cliburn Competition documentary films, from the first release in 1977 to 2022's Crescendo.