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Free Concert: Fei-Fei, piano
Get a taste of the artistry and excitement of the upcoming 2025 Cliburn Competition! Bring your friends and family for a free concert at the Near Southside's Cliburn Mural, featuring 2013 finalist Fei-Fei in this year's Countdown to the Cliburn series.
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Dance
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!
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Semifinal Round Concert 5 - Concerto
In this concert, 4 of 12 competitors will each perform a Mozart concerto with Carlos Miguel Prieto and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
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Free Concert: Fei-Fei, piano
Get a taste of the artistry and excitement of the upcoming 2025 Cliburn Competition! Bring your friends and family for a free concert at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, featuring 2013 finalist Fei-Fei in this year's Countdown to the Cliburn series.
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Semifinal Round Concert 2 - Recital
In this concert, 2 of 12 competitors will each perform a 60-minute recital.
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Semifinal Round Concert 4 - Recital
In this concert, 2 of 12 competitors will each perform a 60-minute recital.
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Free Concert: Fei-Fei, piano
Get a taste of the artistry and excitement of the upcoming 2025 Cliburn Competition! Bring your friends and family for a free concert at Legends Hall at The Marq, featuring 2013 finalist Fei-Fei in this year's Countdown to the Cliburn series.
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Ilya Shmukler
When he was 3 years old, Moscow native Ilya Shmukler’s mother found him jumping on the bed and beautifully singing Robertino Loreti’s “Jamaica;” she immediately recognized his musical talent and started him in lessons. It was important to his non-musician parents that he be raised as a well-rounded person, so his early years were also spent with school, table tennis, and ballroom dancing. But at 10, he says his life changed after applying for and winning his first music competition and attending the subsequent international summer academy: “There I discovered a true musical life, and I fell in love with it, inspiring me to commit my life to music.”
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2022 Competition Rounds and Repertoire
2022 Competition Rounds and Repertoire
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Preliminary Round Concert 8
In this concert, 3 of 28 competitors will each perform a 40-minute recital, including the worldwide debut of the 2025 Cliburn commissioned work composed by Competition juror Gabriela Montero.
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