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Members of the 2023 Cliburn Junior jury will examine how training, technique, and artistic sensibilities have changed, and discuss their own experiences building a career in music, moderated by Buddy Bray. With Janina Fialkowska (jury chairman), Jane Coop, Adam Golka, Carol Leone, Anton Nel, Roberto Plano, Katia Skanavi, Jeffrey Swann, Orion Weiss, and Jacques Marquis.

Learn more about the 2023 Cliburn Junior jury here.

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Four Cliburn Junior artists will play for Jon Kimura Parker, pianist and keyboard chair at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

About Jon Kimura Parker

Jon Kimura Parker is known for his charisma, infectious enthusiasm, and dynamic performances. He is creative partner for the Minnesota Orchestra’s Summer at Orchestra Hall, artistic director of the Honens International Piano Competition, artistic advisor for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and keyboard chair at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

In addition to concerto engagements with the world’s leading orchestras, he has performed with Stewart Copeland—legendary drummer of The Police—and collaborated with Bobby McFerrin, Doc Severinsen, Audra McDonald, Pablo Zeigler, and Sanjaya Malakar. Mr. Parker’s YouTube channel features his Concerto Chat videos, his Whole Note series is available on Amazon Prime, and he is a tonebase video artist.

Winner of the gold medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition, he was appointed to the Order of Canada and received honorary doctorates from the University of British Columbia and the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.

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Bring your family and friends for a free concert by 2023 Cliburn Junior artists at Dallas Public Library Vickery Park Branch. Stay after the performances for a free ice cream social!

Sponsored by Children’s Health.

Dallas Public Library Vickery Park Branch
8333 Park Ln, Dallas, TX 75231

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Four Junior artists will play for Yoheved Kaplinsky, chair of the piano department at The Juilliard School.

About Yoheved Kaplinsky

One of the world’s foremost teachers, Yoheved Kaplinsky is in demand internationally for masterclasses, lectures, and as an adjudicator. She is chair of the piano department at Juilliard and artistic director of the Pre-College division, having joined the faculty in 1993. She has served as a jury member for many international competitions, including the Cliburn, Cleveland, Arthur Rubinstein, Dublin, and Tchaikovsky. A prizewinner of the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C., she received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Juilliard. Ms. Kaplinsky formerly held positions at Philadelphia University of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and Peabody Conservatory.

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Four Junior artists will play concerto movements with Final Round conductor Valentina Peleggi and a locally based ensemble.

About Valentina Peleggi

Valentina Peleggi has been music director of the Richmond Symphony since the 2020–2021 season and has already revitalized the orchestra’s artistic output. While focusing on developing the orchestra’s own sound, she has also launched new concert formats, joined national co-commission partnerships, started a three-year composer-in-residence program, launched conducting masterclasses in collaboration with the local universities, and championed neglected composers from diverse backgrounds. Highlights of the 2022–2023 season include a ground-breaking augmented reality project, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, and a special concert with soloist Yo-Yo Ma.

This season Ms. Peleggi debuts with the New World Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic; at the Grant Park Festival in Chicago; and in Europe with the Residentie Orkest, Liege Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Nuremburg Symphony, and the orchestra of Opera North, also conducting the opening concert of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Engagements in recent seasons have included the Colorado and Baltimore Symphonies, Royal Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Brussels Philharmonic, Norrkoping Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana, and Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano.

The first Italian woman to enter the conducting program at the Royal Academy of Music of London, she graduated with distinction and was awarded the DipRAM for an outstanding final concert (as well as numerous other prizes) and was recently honored with the title of Associate. She furthered her studies with David Zinman and Daniele Gatti at the Zurich Tonhalle and at the Royal Concertgebouw masterclasses. She won the 2014 Conducting Prize at the Festival International de Inverno Campos do Jordão, received a Bruno Walter Foundation Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California, and the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship 2015–2017 under Marin Alsop.

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Bring your family and friends for a free concert by 2023 Cliburn Junior artists at Dallas Public Library Bachman Lake Branch.

Sponsored by Children’s Health.

Dallas Public Library Bachman Lake Branch
9480 Webb Chapel Rd, Dallas, TX 75220

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Four Junior artists will play for Yoheved Kaplinsky, chair of the piano department at The Juilliard School.

About Yoheved Kaplinsky

One of the world’s foremost teachers, Yoheved Kaplinsky is in demand internationally for masterclasses, lectures, and as an adjudicator. She is chair of the piano department at Juilliard and artistic director of the Pre-College division, having joined the faculty in 1993. She has served as a jury member for many international competitions, including the Cliburn, Cleveland, Arthur Rubinstein, Dublin, and Tchaikovsky. A prizewinner of the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C., she received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Juilliard. Ms. Kaplinsky formerly held positions at Philadelphia University of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and Peabody Conservatory.

O’Donnell Recital Hall–Owen Arts Center at SMU Second Floor
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Four Junior artists will play for Janina Fialkowska, renowned pianist and Cliburn Junior jury chairman.

About Janina Fialkowska
Jury Chariman

For almost 50 years, pianist Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach, and her unique piano sound, thus becoming “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine).

Born in Canada, she began her piano studies with her mother at age 4, continuing on in her native Montréal with Yvonne Hubert. In Paris she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and in New York at The Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki, experiencing the best of both French and Russian piano traditions. Her career was launched in 1974, when the legendary Arthur Rubinstein became her mentor after her prize-winning performance at his inaugural Master Piano Competition, calling her a “born Chopin interpreter” and laying the foundation for her lifelong identification with this composer.

Since then she has performed with the foremost orchestras worldwide under the baton of such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Roger Norrington, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She has won special recognition for a series of important premieres, notably Liszt’s newly discovered Third Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony and several contemporary piano concertos. Ms. Fialkowska’s discography includes many award-winning discs, with major recognition including BBC Music Magazine’s 2013 “Instrumental CD of the Year” award and the Canadian JUNO Award in 2018.

Her native Canada has bestowed upon her their highest honors: Officer of the Order of Canada and the Governor General’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Classical Music (Canada’s equivalent to the Kennedy Center Honors), as well as three honorary doctorates. She passes on her wide musical experience in masterclasses and at her annual International Piano Academy in Bavaria, where she now resides, and makes frequent appearances as a juror of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions. In November, Novum Publishing (London) released her autobiography, A Note in Time.

Ms. Fialkowska previously served on the Screening Jury for the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

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Bring your family and friends for a free concert by 2023 Cliburn Junior artists at NorthPark Center. The concert will take place in NorthCourt on level one between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

NorthPark Center
8687 North Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75225

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Seven Festival artists perform 18-minute recitals for members of the jury.

PROGRAM 

10:00 a.m.  Akilan Sankaran
DEBUSSY “Reflets dans l’eau” from Images
RACHMANINOV Prelude in G-sharp Minor, op. 32, no. 12
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, op. 28

10:20 a.m. Hanna Kozyak
MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses, op. 54
BARVINSKY Prelude No. 2 in F-sharp Major
LIGETI Etude No. 10 “Der Zauberlehrling”

10:40 a.m. Melanie Yutong Liu
LISZT Transcendental Etude No. 4 “Mazeppa”
MOZART Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333 (I)
CHOPIN Nocturne in F-sharp Major, op. 15, no. 2

11:00 a.m. Kayden Kelly
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, op. 2, no. 1 (I, II)
MENDELSSOHN Rondo capriccioso, op. 14
RACHMANINOV Prelude in G Minor, op. 23, no. 5

15-minute intermission

11:33 a.m. Xinran Shi
LIEBERMANN Gargoyles, op. 29 (III, IV)
CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, op. 52

11:53 a.m. Casey Li
MOZART Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281 (I)
LISZT Transcendental Etude No. 9 “Ricordanza”
DEBUSSY “Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest” from Préludes, Book I

12:13 p.m. Samuel Sabbah
BACH–BUSONI Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177
LISZT Transcendental Etude No. 5 “Feux follets”
LISZT Transcendental Etude No. 12 “Chasse-neige”
KAPUSTIN Toccatina, op. 40, no. 3

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Four Junior artists will play for Stanislav Ioudenitch, 2001 Cliburn Gold Medalist.

About Stanislav Ioudentich
2001 Cliburn Gold Medalist

Stanislav Ioudenitch was the gold medalist of the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and also won prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, Maria Callas, and New Orleans competitions, among others. As an accomplished recitalist, he has performed at major cultural centers around the world. An in-demand pedagogue whose students are top prizewinners and performers, he is the founder and artistic director of the International Center for Music at Park University. He is also the director of the Young Artists Music Academy (Kansas City), vice-president of the Piano Academy at Lake Como, and associate professor of piano at Oberlin Conservatory, and has led masterclasses at several
distinguished universities.

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Four Junior artists will play for Wu Han, pianist and artistic co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

About Wu Han

Pianist Wu Han, recipient of Musical America’s Musician of the Year Award, enjoys a multi-faceted musical life that encompasses performing, recording, and artistic direction at the highest levels. She has performed in prestigious concert halls across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Currently artistic co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music@Menlo, she also serves as artistic advisor for Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music in the Barns and for Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the recording company ArtistLed, and has released more than 80 recordings of masterworks in the chamber repertoire on the ArtistLed, CMS Live,
and Music@Menlo LIVE labels.

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