Cliburn Winners

Current Winners


Di Wu
China
Age as of competition: 24

Di Wu has appeared with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic, New York Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony. In the 2011, Ms. Wu performed with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach at Verizon Hall, performing Messiaen’s rarely-heard Turangalila-Symphonie. In 2010, Ms. Wu was presented in an arena concert as soloist in the Nodame Cantabile Orchestra Concert–Grand Finale, appearing in front of an audience of over 11,000 people and recorded for release by Epic Records. She has made debuts at Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls in New York as well as at the Ravinia Festival, May Festival, and CU Artist Series in Boulder as a special guest of the Takács Quartet. Other engagements have taken her throughout the United States, Europe, China, Canada, Barbados, and Hong Kong.

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Preliminary Recital
HaydnSonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48
RavelMiroirs
Gounod-LisztFaust Waltz
Semifinal Recital
C.SchumannMazurka from Soirées musicales, Op.6
SchumannDavidsbündlertänze, Op.6
MedtnerFairy Tales, Op. 20
HagenSuite for Piano
MoszkowskiCaprice Espagnol, Op. 37
Semifinal Chamber
DvorákPiano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
Final Recital
BachItalian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
SchoenbergKlavierstücke, Op. 11
RavelGaspard de la nuit
Final Concerti
BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
RachmaninoffPiano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30