Meet the 2023 Cliburn Junior Participants.

 

248 pianists age 13 to 17 applied, now 38 have been selected to come to Dallas this June to learn from top international artists, make lifelong connections, and share their music with the world!

 

This year's Junior artists display impressive determination in their craft, from one who, at 16, has already finished first place in 30 international piano competitions, and one who, when he was 12, recorded the piano performance of the main character in the popular anime series, Forest of Piano. They also exhibit great talent outside of piano performance: one has been commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to write a piano trio, another is a National MathCounts finalist, and yet another has been seriously studying and practicing Chinese calligraphy since he was 4. The Cliburn looks forward to welcoming these impressive young artists to Texas this June.

 

The Cliburn is proud to announce today the 24 competitors and 14 additional non-competing festival artists selected to participate in the Third Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, taking place June 8–17, 2023, at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.

 

COMPETITORS

Eddison Chen, 13, United States

Chenxi Chu, 14, China 

Steven Ruochong Cui, 17, United States

Alyssa Gabrilovich, 17, United States

Xuanyan Jessie Gong, 16, China

Andrew Gu, 16, United States

Seokyoung Hong, 15, South Korea 

Mi Hou, 15, China 

Artur Iskorostenskii, 16, Russia 

Zihan Jin, 14, China

Saehyun Kim, 16, South Korea 

Lukas Lee, 15, China

Seoeun Lee, 14, South Korea

Jaeuk Lim, 16, South Korea 

Tiankun Ma, 16, China 

Modan Oyama, 17, Japan 

Jan Schulmeister, 16, Czechia

Chihiro Sugawara, 16, Japan

Sizhe Wang, 14, China

Taige Wang, 13, United States

Zhonghua Wei, 14, China

Yifan Wu, 14, China

Chengcheng Yao, 14, China

Yiran Zhou, 15, China

 

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

Grace Feng, 16, United States 

Asta Dora Finnsdottir, 16, Iceland 

William Ge, 16, United States 

Kayden Kelly, 16, United States/Costa Rica 

Anna Kesselman, 15, United States 

Hanna Kozyak, 16, Ukraine 

Olivia Larco, 13, United States 

Casey Li, 14, Singapore 

Melanie Yutong Liu, 14, United States/China 

Samuel Sabbah, 14, Norway 

Akilan Sankaran, 16, United States 

Can Sarac, 15, Turkey

Xinran Shi, 13, United States

Ivaylo Vassilev, 15, Bulgaria

 

*ages at time of Competition