The competition through the years
Click through to explore the history of The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
1962
Van with Ralph Votapek (United States), the first winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
1962
Contestants from the first competition draw a random number to determine their performing order.
1962
Contestants from the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
1962
First Van Cliburn International Piano Competition poster.
1962
Fort Worth Star-Telegram clipping of Van Cliburn arriving for opening of the contest.
1966
Winner of the Second Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Radu Lupu (Romania).
1969
Van with contestants of Third Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, including winner Cristina Ortiz (Brazil - center).
1973
Winner of the Fourth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Vladimir Viardo (Russia).
1977
Winner of the Fifth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Steven de Groote (South Africa), Artist in Residence at TCU from 1987 to 1989.
1981
Winner of the Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Andre-Michel Schub (United States).
1985
Winner of the Seventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, José Feghali (Brazil) Artist in residence at TCU from 1990 to 2014.
1989
Winner of the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Alexei Sultanov (Russia).
1993
Winner of the Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Simone Pedroni (Italy).
1997
Van Cliburn awarding Jon Nakamatsu (United States), winner of the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
2001
Winners of the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Stanislav Ioudenitch (Uzbekistan) and Olga Kern (Russia).
2005
Winner of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Alexander Kobrin (Russia).
2009
Winners of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Nobuyuki Tsujii (Japan) and Haochen Zhang (China).
2013
Vadym Kholodenko (Ukraine) after winning the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
2017
Contestants from the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition trying on cowboy hats during orientation.
2017
Yekwon Sunwoo (South Korea) giving his winning performance at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.