The Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition announced its winners. Winner of the Gold Medal and the Van Cliburn Winner’s Cup is Yekwon Sunwoo, 28, South Korea.The silver medallist is Kenneth Broberg, 23, United States, the bronze medallist Daniel Hsu, 19, United States, who also won the Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music as well as the Award for the Best Performance of a new work.
The Audience Award winner is Rachel Cheung, 25, from South Korea.
Gold medallist Yekwon Sunwoo earned his bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music and his master’s at The Juilliard School, and also studied with Richard Goode at the Mannes School of Music. He currently studies in Hannover.
