Van Cliburn

In their first year serving as a host family for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Jeff and Rosemary Detweiler got lucky: They were matched with Yunchan Lim.

Because the Dallas contest packs so much piano playing, fun and educational events into more than a week, organizers - and participants - call it a festival.

Once every four years, in this case five because of the pandemic, people from all over, who hire classical music pianists, head to Fort Worth during the Cliburn International Piano competition. They’re listening to up-and-coming artists who might fit into their organization’s future concert schedules.

Thirty young pianists compete for cash and professional management that can establish careers.

The Cliburn Foundation commissioned Austin-based muralist DAAS to do his first Fort Worth piece. His murals can be found all over the world.

Finalists represent 14 countries, including Russia, China and the U.S.

The Cliburn international piano competition takes pride in its focus on high-quality, musical performance — leaving everything else outside the concert hall. But the war in Ukraine invaded the Fort Worth contest this week. For some musicians, it's added a layer of tension that's difficult to imagine.

They're among 72 auditioning for the international piano competition this weekend.

Over 200 musicians have applied for the 2020 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition in Fort Worth this year — the most since the competition…

In a first for the Cliburn Piano Competition, the next Cliburn contest will be in Dallas, not Fort Worth. The second Cliburn International Junior…

The estranged wife of a Van Cliburn piano competition winner was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Monday in the 2016 deaths of their children.In…

The 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has now been put to rest for another four years. It's been a hectic two and a half weeks in Fort…