
Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
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The Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
took place in Fort Worth, Texas
from May 25 to June 10, 2001.
Olga Kern
and Stanislav Ioudenitch
won the competition ex-aequo, while Maxim Philippov and Antonio Pompa-Baldi
shared the Silver Medal. It was the first time two pianists earned the top prize.
(chairman) Marcello Abbado
Joaquín Achúcarro
Eileen Tate Cline Richard Dyer Claude Frank
Thomas Frost
Andrzej Jasinski
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Jürgen Meyer-Hosten Jean-Marc Peysson Menahem Pressler
Guangren Zhou
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. 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...
took place in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
from May 25 to June 10, 2001.
Olga Kern
Olga Kern
Olga Kern is a Russian classical pianist. Born as Olga Pushechnikova to a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, she later adopted her mother's maiden name professionally...
and Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch , 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...
won the competition ex-aequo, while Maxim Philippov and Antonio Pompa-Baldi
Antonio Pompa-Baldi
-Life:He graduated from the Umberto Giordano Conservatory of Foggia in 1993.After graduating, he moved to Napoli, where he studied with the Italian professor Annamaria Pennella.He also studied for about 18 months with the pianist Aldo Ciccolini....
shared the Silver Medal. It was the first time two pianists earned the top prize.
Jurors
John GiordanoJohn Giordano
John Read Giordano is an American orchestra conductor, professor of music, composer, and former concert saxophonist. He is Associate Professor of Music at Texas Christian University...
(chairman) Marcello Abbado
Marcello Abbado
Marcello Abbado is an Italian composer, conductor, and pianist. His compositional output includes several orchestral works, a ballet, numerous pieces for solo piano, and a number of chamber works. He has collaborated on several compositions with Roberto Goitre...
Joaquín Achúcarro
Joaquín Achúcarro
Joaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.- Biography and career :Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory and, in 1956, at the age of 13, made his concerto debut in Bilbao playing a...
Eileen Tate Cline Richard Dyer Claude Frank
Claude Frank
Claude Frank is a German-born, American Jewish pianist whose career has included appearances with highly reputed orchestras, at major festivals, and in major recital halls around the world...
Thomas Frost
Thomas Frost
Thomas Frost is multiple Grammy Award-winning classical music producer, who won many of his awards for producing the albums of Vladimir Horowitz...
Andrzej Jasinski
Andrzej Jasinski
Andrzej Jasiński is a Polish pianist.In 1959 he graduated with honors from the University of Music in Katowice in the piano class of Władysława Markiewiczówna. The following year he won the Maria Canals Competition, and subsequently completed his training under Magda Tagliaferro...
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School...
Jürgen Meyer-Hosten Jean-Marc Peysson Menahem Pressler
Menahem Pressler
Menahem Pressler is a German-born American pianist, founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Professional career:...
Guangren Zhou
Results
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![]() Stanislav Ioudenitch Stanislav Ioudenitch , 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... |
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