This is why you couldn't export the Cliburn competition - which is extraordinarily well-operated - anywhere else.

So for this year's Cliburn competition, the organizers decided to do things the old-fashioned way.

With the rewards of professional success already upon her, Miss Suh was asked why she was entering the Cliburn competition.

Events The Cliburn competition will present 35 pianists in three rounds of concerts from May 23 to June 8.

She will return as host of the 2013 Cliburn competition in May 2013.

A principal criticism of the Cliburn competition and events like it is that despite all the munificence, finding those worthy of it is still a problem.

This year the Cliburn competition is addressing these problems, partly by redefining itself and partly through rule changes.

He kept practicing the piano, hoping for even greater success at the next Cliburn competition in 1997.

The Cliburn competition is also the subject of a 30-minute "Nightline" segment, aired June 19.

A later segment shows him performing Scriabin at the Cliburn competition.