SIXTEENTH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
JUNE 2–18, 2022
VAN CLIBURN CONCERT HALL AT TCU • BASS PERFORMANCE HALL
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, USA
Marin Alsop, jury chairman

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Beverley Taylor Smith Award for Best Performance of a New Work: Yunchan Lim ($5,000)
Best Performance of a Mozart Concerto: Ilya Shmukler ($5,000)
John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award: Marcel Tadokoro ($5,000)
Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award: Changyong Shin ($5,000)
Patricia and Neal Steffen Family Jury Discretionary Award: Andrew Li ($5,000)
Carla and Kelly Thompson Audience Award presented by Medici.tv: Yunchan Lim ($2,500)

WINNERS’ UPDATES

YUNCHAN LIM  Yunchan’s debut with the New York Philharmonic in May 2023 was named a Critics’ Pick by The New York Times, and led them to call his performance of Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3 a “literal” dream: “the juxtaposition of precise clarity and expansive reverie; the vivid scenes and bursts of wit; the sense of contrasting yet organically developing moods; the endless and persuasive bendings of time—the qualities that tend to characterize nighttime wanderings of the mind.” As the Evening Standard noted following his Wigmore debut: “We’re at the start of something special.” Yunchan signed with Decca Classics in October 2023 and continues touring in 2024–2025.

ANNA GENIUSHENE  Accolades ensued for the silver medalist—Musical America named her Young Artist of the Month in July 2022 and Pianist magazine featured her on the cover in June 2023—and invitations from well-respected institutions followed. Anna’s newest album—a deeply personal project of lullabies spanning from John Field and Liszt to Dutilleux and Weinberg—is released in September 2023, and she is set to record a duo disc with her husband and frequent collaborator, pianist Lukas Geniušas, for release next year on the Alpha label. She will join the roster of the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for 2024–2027. She currently resides in Lithuania with her husband and their two young sons.

DMYTRO CHONI  Forthcoming highlights for Dmytro include recital and chamber music debuts at Vienna Konzerthaus, recital debuts in Lucerne and Hamburg, and a return to the Palau de la Música, Barcelona for a solo recital. During the 2023–24 season he will give recitals with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Munich and Milan, among others. Dmytro regularly appears as soloist with renowned orchestras, such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Ukraine National Symphony. His debut album was released by Naxos in 2020, containing works from the 20th century by Debussy, Ginastera, Ligeti and Prokofiev, receiving a “Supersonic Award” by Pizzicato magazine. He is currently studying with Prof. Dr. Milana Chernyavska at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

CLAYTON STEPHENSON  Recent and upcoming highlights of Clayton’s burgeoning career include appearances with the Calgary Philharmonic, Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Fort Worth, Louisville, Lansing and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras; as well as recitals at the Phillips Collection Concert Series in Washington, DC, Foundation Louis Vuitton Auditorium in Paris, Bad Kissinger Sommer Festival and BeethovenFest in Germany, Colour of Music Festival, Ravinia Festival and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.  He has been featured on NPR, WUOL, and WQXR, and appeared in the “GRAMMY® Salute to Classical Music” Concert at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium. He now studies in the Harvard-NEC Dual Degree Program, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in economics at Harvard and a master’s degree in piano performance at the New England Conservatory under Wha Kyung Byun.

ILYA SHMUKLER  Ilya is a laureate of many international piano competitions, taking top prizes at the New York Virtuoso, Lewisville Lake Symphony, Artist Presentation Society (St. Louis), Shigeru Kawai (Tokyo), Sсriabin–Rachmaninov (Bulgaria), and Rachmaninov (St. Petersburg) Competitions. In 2021, he won the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall Debut Audition and made his New York debut at the venerated venue on December 13, 2022. He completed his master’s degree with honors at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2021, under the guidance of Elena Kuznetsova and Sergey Kuznetsov. Presently, he studies with 2001 Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University in Parkville, Missouri.

ULADZISLAU KHANDOHI  Uladzislau has became a laureate of many international competitions, releasing a solo album with Melodiya. Since 2020, Uladzislau has been a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, studying with Professor Natalia Trull. He has toured in Belarus, Russia, Spain, Italy and France. He most recently won the 2021 editions of the Ferrol International Piano Competition in Spain and the Sanremo International Piano Competition in Italy. Uladzislau is a scholarship student of the Yuri Rozum International Charitable Foundation.

JURY

Marin Alsop, chairman (United States)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (France)
Alessio Bax (Italy)
Rico Gulda (Austria)
Andreas Haefliger (Switzerland)
Stephen Hough (United Kingdom)
Anne-Marie McDermott (United States)
Orli Shaham (Israel/United States)
Lilya Zilberstein (Germany)
Wu Han (China Taiwan/United States)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Conductors: Nicholas McGegan (Semifinal Round), Marin Alsop (Final Round)
Orchestra: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned Work: Stephen Hough, Fanfare Toccata