A 29-year-old from Hong Kong became the first pianist from there to take home the top prize Saturday night in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Aristo Sham of Hong Kong, China ...

FORT WORTH — At a Saturday evening awards ceremony, prize winners in the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition were announced from the stage of Bass Performance Hall. The ceremony followed ...

Sham played his first homecoming recital since winning the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas in June.

Watch: Aristo Sham performs Mendelssohn G minor Concerto (No. 1) at the 2025 Van Cliburn finals The 29-year-old is from Hong Kong, China. This is the first of his two final round performances.

The overwhelming response to my win at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition from Hong Kong, practically immediately, could not have been in anyone’s imagination; requests for interviews ...

Chances were that even if pianist Aristo Sham Ching-tao had shown up for his first homecoming recital and only played variations on “Happy Birthday”, the audience would have been just as enraptured.

FORT WORTH — The first two rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, ended Sunday (May 25) with announcement of 12 semifinalists. We’ll be covering the Semifinal Round, May 28 through ...

Top prize winners of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. From left, silver medal winner Anna Geniushene, 31, of Russia, gold medal winner Yunchan Lim, 18, of South Korea, and bronze ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Cliburn, a renowned piano competition held in Fort Worth, announced its field of 30 competitors on Wednesday. The 30 pianists will participate in the seventeenth Van Cliburn ...