Grant part of National Endowment for the Arts announcement of 78
Arts in Media grants and $3.55 million in funding nationwide
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Contact:
Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing and Public Relations,
mestes@cliburn.org, 817.738.6536 (o), 817.739.0459 (c)
Nikki Scandalios, National Publicist,
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Fort Worth, Texas, May 2, 2012--National Endowment of the Arts
(NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced this week that the Van
Cliburn Foundation is one of 78 not-for-profit national, regional,
state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Arts in
Media grant. The Cliburn is recommended for a $20,000 grant to
support the media project for the Fourteenth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, being held May 24-June 9,
2013.
The multimedia project planned for the 2013 Competition includes a
global live streaming webcast, radio broadcasts, and a film
documentary. For the Thirteenth Competition in 2009, the webcast
delivered over 2,857,573 total streams to viewers from 157
countries/territories; the documentary A Surprise in Texas reached
over 105 million potential households on PBS, airing primetime in
most of the top 50 markets; the DVD of the film subsequently
received unprecedented mass international distribution through
EuroArts; and through a partnership with American Public Media,
Competition performances continue to air on Performance Today-which
is broadcast on 245 public radio stations across the country and
heard by approximately 1.3 million people each week.
The 78 Arts in Media grant awards total $3.55 million and support
the development, production, and national distribution of
innovative media projects about the arts and media projects that
can be considered works of art. The NEA received 329 eligible
applications under this category, requesting more than $36 million
in funding. The Cliburn is among the 25 percent recommended for
funding.
Cliburn Interim President and CEO said, "The Cliburn has always
made a concerted effort to use the newest and best platforms to
advance the reach of the competition-with full length documentaries
since 1977 and live Internet streaming since 1997. We are grateful
to the support of the NEA as we continue to utilize the latest
innovations in media to make classical music available to audiences
around the globe."
U.S. Representative Kay Granger said, "The Cliburn Competition is
an example of the wonderful culture we have in Fort Worth. The
competition is a world-class event, now with global access because
the Van Cliburn Foundation embraces new media that delivers the
talent at this competition to the world. I want to congratulate the
Foundation for their commitment to the fine arts and for their
ability to adapt to the future."
NEA Chairman Landesman said, "While Americans across the country
are experiencing art live and in person every day, NEA research has
shown that more than half of American adults also consume the arts
via electronic media. I am thrilled to announce these Arts in Media
grants and look forward to the organizations' efforts to reach ever
wider audiences and create innovative new works of art."
ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, radio broadcasts, and a live webcast
that extends its outreach to audiences around the world.
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will
take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort Worth's Bass Performance
Hall and will welcome 30 of the world's finest young pianists to
Texas. Continuing its longstanding commitment to new music, the
Cliburn has selected composer Christopher Theofanidis to write the
commissioned work that will be performed by all competitors during
the Semifinal Round. Additionally, the Competition has been
dedicated to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of its
competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to
collaborate with other musicians. The Fourteenth Competition will
mark the first Cliburn appearance by the world-renowned Brentano
String Quartet performing a piano quintet with each of the 12
semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, which has
appeared at every Cliburn Competition, will perform two concerti
with each of the six finalists, under the baton of Maestro Leonard
Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John Giordano will serve as
chairman of the jury for the eleventh competition since he assumed
the post in 1973.
In addition to a cash prize of $50,000 and a commercial recording
produced by harmonia mundi usa, the winner of the 2013 Competition
will receive commission-free career management and a 3-year concert
tour, with Cliburn-arranged recital, festival, and orchestra
concert engagements across the United States and international
appearances booked by IMG Artists. Five additional finalists also
receive cash prizes and 3-year concert tours, with career
management from the Cliburn.
Applications for competitors can now be submitted online and are
due October 15, 2012. Complete information about prizes,
eligibility, rules, and application procedures can be found at
Cliburn.org.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches 33,000 elementary school
students annually with the education programs of Musical
Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the International Piano
Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which The Boston Globe
proclaimed "a celebration of music, and the people who have to make
music, no matter what." The seventh Amateur Competition will be
held May 2015, at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of
TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn during its 50th
Anniversary year in 2012.
Official Sponsors of the Van Cliburn Foundation are:
American Airlines
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Ann L. & Carol Green Rhodes Charitable Trust, Bank of America,
Trustee
Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant County
BNSF Railway Foundation
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, Bank of America,
Trustee
ExxonMobil
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
The Burnett Foundation
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