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Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's...
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Radu Lupu
Radu Lupu (born November 30, 1945) is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte...
Christian Zacharias
Christian Zacharias (born 1950) is a German pianist and conductor.
Christian Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won the Geneva Competition in 1969, the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel...
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Vladimir Viardo
Vladimir Viardo, born in 1949 at Krasnia Polana in the Caucasus, USSR, is a Russian pianist.
Viardo studied with Irina Naumova at the Gnessin State Musical College and later studied with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he...
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Jon Nakamatsu
Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu (born 1968, San Jose, California) is a Japanese American classical pianist who still resides in San Jose but mostly performs away from home. He is the son of David Y. Nakamatsu (San Jose engineer) and Karen F. Maeda Nakamatsu...
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Yakov Kasman
Yakov Kasman (b. February 24, 1967) is a Russian classical pianist Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano...
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Olga Kern
Olga Kern (Russian: Ольга Керн; born April 23, 1975) is a Russian classical pianist. She was born into a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and began studying piano with Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of...
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Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch (born 1971 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan), is a pianist from the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Gold Medalist at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, tying for first place with Olga Kern....
