The Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas from May 23 to June 8, 1997. Jon Nakamatsu won the competition, while Yakov Kasman and Aviram Reichert were awarded the Silver and bronze medals.Results in the competition's website
William Bolcom composed his Nine Bagatelles for the competition.
Jurors
John Giordano (chairman) Marius Constant Dean Elder Claude Frank Ian Hobson Warren Jones Jerome Lowenthal Hiroko Nakamura Lev Naumov Cécile Ousset Menahem Pressler Piero Rattalino Dubravka Tomšič Alexis Weissenberg
Results Contestant R1 SF F Susumu Aoyagi Andrew Armstrong Yuri Bogdanov Naida Cole Mikhail Danchenko Alexandre Dossin Filippo Gamba Joel Hastings Stanislav Ioudenitch w/d Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Yakov Kasman Yong-kyu Lee Aleksandar Madžar Peter Miyamoto Anton Mordasov Jon Nakamatsu Olga Pushechnikova Aviram Reichert Fernando Rossano Per Rundberg Yuan Sheng Margarita Shevhchenko Christopher Shih Niklas Sivelöv Katia Skanavi Alex Slobodyanik Ju-ying Song Dmitri Teterin Albert Tiu Dimitri Vassilakis Georgi Vachnadze Lev Vinocour Dmitri Vorobiev Yi Wu
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