Throughout the competition, 29-year-old Aristo Sham played hours of music from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and ...

Israeli-Russian pianist Vitaly Starikov won the silver medal and American pianist Evren Ozel the bronze at the Fort Worth ...

An Israeli/Russian took silver and a Minnesotan won bronze in the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ...

Aristo Sham wins the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, earning $100,000 and a prestigious career boost.

Aristo Sham, 29, becomes first Hong Kong winner of international competition held in Texas, setting him on road to classical ...

Hong Kong pianist Aristo Sham won the gold medal at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, impressing judges and audiences with his emotional depth and technical mastery. The ...

Local pianist Aristo Sham on Saturday won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, a classical music contest held ...

Aristo Sham took command of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 and ran away with it, infusing the gnarly solo part with purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry' ...

Indeed, when I looked over my earlier blog posts, I saw that I largely enjoyed these medalists’ solo rounds. Yet unlike in 2022 – when Yunchan Lim’s extraordinary Semi-final performance of Liszt’s ...

In a concluding ceremony Saturday evening, Aristo Sham, 29, of Hong Kong, China, was declared winner of the Gold Medal at the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, ...

While their three competitors waited their turn on Saturday afternoon, two American pianists and one from Hong Kong, China, made their bids for Cliburn medals with impressive performances of concertos ...