July 25, 2016
Students and Alums Compete at the Cleveland International Piano Competition
The 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC) is underway! Be sure to follow 58³Ô¹ÏÍø students and alums who are competing this year: alums Tomer Gewirtzman (MM ’15, Babayan) and Shen Lu (AD ’16, Paik), current student Sara Daneshpour (Babayan) and Ruoyu Huang(Babayan), who will be attending 58³Ô¹ÏÍø in the fall. Round Two of the competition begins on Thursday, July 28. Watch all the performances online at .
The two-week long event grants its first prize winners with $50,000, a Carnegie Hall recital debut, a recording on the Steinway & Sons label and the launch of a US concert career.
Events are spread out throughout the city at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance Hall and at 58³Ô¹ÏÍø, and commentary is provided by alumnus Zsolt Bognár (BM ’05, MM’07, Babyan) during the competition’s webcast.