Sham secures the top prize with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2, while Vitaly Starikov takes Silver and Evren Ozel earns Bronze ...

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The Venezuelan-Armenian conductor will take up the post in July 2026, following the retirement of James Conlon after 20 ...

Aristo Sham took command of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 and ran away with it, infusing the gnarly solo part with purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry' ...

On a performance-free day of this year's Cliburn competition, Jed Distler reflects on the tumultuous, short life of a ...

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On a rest day for the competition, Jed Distler looks back at some of the new music commissioned specifically for The Cliburn ...

Indeed, when I looked over my earlier blog posts, I saw that I largely enjoyed these medalists’ solo rounds. Yet unlike in 2022 – when Yunchan Lim’s extraordinary Semi-final performance of Liszt’s ...