A pair of concertos, one composed by Brahms and the other by Mendelssohn, lifted 29-year-old Aristo Sham to the gold medal.

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

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

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 ...

The Cliburn is not unusual in this respect. Only two women have won the Leeds and Queen Elisabeth competitions, and only one ...

One of the highest visibility classical music contests in the world, the Cliburn has been held quadrennially in Fort Worth ...

Held every four years, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is considered by some to be the Olympics of the piano ...

The group of 28 competitors in the prestigious 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, going on in Fort Worth, has ...

The Cliburn is not unusual in this respect. Only two women have won the Leeds and Queen Elisabeth competitions, and only one ...

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' ...

On a performance-free day of this year's Cliburn competition, Jed Distler reflects on the tumultuous, short life of a ...