Minneapolis native Evren Ozel has advanced to the finals of North America’s most prestigious classical piano competition, the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. From a field that started with 28 pianists ages 18 to 30 from 16 countries, Ozel has reached the final six, thanks to impressive performances during three recitals and a Saturday night performance of a Mozart Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
For the final round, the 26-year-old Ozel will perform two piano concertos with conductor Marin Alsop and the Fort Worth Symphony: Tchaikovsky’s First on Tuesday evening and Beethoven’s Fourth on Friday night. Those 7:30 p.m. concerts are livestreamed at cliburn.org.
Raised in Minneapolis, Ozel is a student at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music.
