List of Famous people with last name Cliburn

Van Cliburn

Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr.
First Name Van
Last Name Cliburn
Born on July 12, 1934
Died on February 27, 2013 (aged 78)

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 . Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught from the start to sing each piece.

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