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Cash prizes up to $100,000, plus three years of concert management and bookings for top winners, attracted 340 applicants for ...
Aristo Sham wins the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, earning $100,000 and a prestigious career boost.
A pair of concertos, one composed by Brahms and the other by Mendelssohn, lifted 29-year-old Aristo Sham to the gold medal.
An Israeli/Russian took silver and a Minnesotan won bronze in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ...
Pianist Aristo Sham will have his homecoming performance in Hong Kong this August after making history at the Van Cliburn ...
The Cliburn is not unusual in this respect. Only two women have won the Leeds and Queen Elisabeth competitions, and only one ...
Held every four years, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is considered by some to be the Olympics of the piano ...
Hong Kong pianist Aristo Sham says winning the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in the United States was a ...
Aristo Sham Ching-tao, the first pianist from Hong Kong to win the gold medal in the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, has ...
Interesting factoid: no non-Asian pianist has been awarded gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition since ...
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is widely considered “one of the most prestigious contests in classical music” (The New York Times, June 2022). From its origins in 1962 through ...
Sham secures the top prize with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2, while Vitaly Starikov takes Silver and Evren Ozel earns Bronze ...