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Adopt-A-Competitor returns to local libraries this year, inviting you to see two of the 2025 competitors—Jonas Aumiller and Philipp Lynov—perform 20 minutes each ahead of the upcoming 2025 Cliburn Competition. Bring your friends and family for this fun culturally inspired program.

Adopt-A-Competitor returns to local libraries this year, inviting you to see two of the 2025 competitors—Xuanxiang Wang and Jiarui Cheng—perform 20 minutes each ahead of the upcoming 2025 Cliburn Competition. Bring your friends and family for this fun culturally inspired program.

In this concert, 2 of 12 competitors will each perform a 60-minute recital.

SMU Meadows School of the Arts, artistic partner of the 2027 Cliburn International Competition for Young Pianists

Oscar Verdeal is a Cuban-born pianist, music promoter, and educator. As a pianist, he has won several prizes and recognition, and has performed throughout Mexico, Spain, the United States, and Cuba.

Music of American individualism and love of nature

Born into a family of pianists in Riga, Latvia, Georgijs Osokins began his studies at the age of 5 with his father, Sergejs Osokins. After 12 years at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School, he studied with Sergei Babayan at The Juilliard School in 2015, then moved to Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf to study with Georg Friedrich Schenck. He finds “consistent development” to be the hallmark of a great musician: “only when an artist fully embraces his responsibility of being the linking element between the creator and the recipient, can he start to generate art himself.”

Join the Cliburn as we celebrate Lunar New Year!

Join the Cliburn as we celebrate Lunar New Year!

Join the Cliburn as we celebrate Lunar New Year!