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2025 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist
Rosen House Music Room
All tickets: $64


On-Site Dining
The featured vendors at this concert are:
Bravo Bar / Stop by the Bravo Bar to grab some cool drinks on a hot summer day – lemonade and iced tea, wine, cocktails and buzz-free beverages will be on ice waiting for you. Pick up curated sweet and savory snacks, and of course ice cream, to help round out your picnic.
G.E. Brown / High-end gourmet sandwiches and baked goods.
Second Mouse Cheese Shop / Cheese, charcuterie, and seasonal sandwiches that preserve our culinary traditions and agricultural roots by promoting small, artisanal productions and the people behind them.
Want to skip the line and dive straight into the music? You can pre-order gourmet sandwich and meal boxes up to 4 days in advance of the concert. Choose your Pre-Order Picnic during the checkout process and your picnic will be waiting for you at the concert! Click here to view the picnic menu.
Bring Your Own / We invite you to spread a blanket out on the lawn, or use our picnic and patio tables to enjoy your own culinary delights.

Music Room
At the heart of the historic Rosen House, the Music Room is a soaring yet intimate space used for chamber music, recitals, American roots music and jazz performances, as well as lectures and Caramoor's popular Afternoon Teas. You’ll find yourself surrounded with Renaissance furniture, stained glass windows and architectural elements the Rosens collected and installed in this unique space. Only covered beverages are permitted inside during performances.
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2025 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Aristo Sham brings his "lucid and gripping" artistry to the intimate Music Room for a program centered on the transformative transcriptions of Ferruccio Busoni. This afternoon recital highlights Sham’s technical mastery through a curated selection of Brahms character pieces, including the soulful Intermezzo in A Major and the spirited Capriccio in C Major. The second half of the performance focuses on Busoni's iconic arrangements, featuring the monumental Bach Chaconne and Chopin’s Variations on Prelude in C minor. As the newest Cliburn winner, Sham continues the competition's legacy of elite pianism with a performance that balances late-Romantic introspection with towering virtuosity.
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Capriccio in F-sharp Minor, Op. 76, Nos. 1 & 2;
Capriccio in G Minor, Op. 116, No. 3; Intermezzo in C Major, Op. 119, No. 3;
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2; Capriccio in C Major, Op. 76, No. 8
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D Minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Busoni)
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Six Chorale Preludes Op.122 (arr. Busoni)
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Variations on Prelude in C minor, Op. 22 (arr. Busoni)
In 2025, Aristo Sham was awarded both the Gold Medal and Audience Prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Praised by critics as “a marvel of deft characterization”,“consistently authoritative,” and by the The New York Times as a pianist “whose playing combines clarity, elegance and abundant technique,” Sham has dazzled audiences across 5 continents. His performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2 in the final of the Van Cliburn was lauded for its “purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry” by Gramophone.
In previous seasons, Sham has appeared with the London Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, English Chamber, Orchestre Chambre de Lausanne, Utah Symphony and Minnesota orchestras with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Edo de Waart and Sir Raymond Leppard. His 25/26 debut season as Cliburn winner includes a major tour of Asia through South Korea and China, and U.S. recitals for Aspen Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society/The Conrad, UCSB Arts and Lectures, and the Skyline Piano Artist Series at Northwestern University.
In 2009, Sham was featured in the documentary ‘The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies’, broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK. He has also performed for royalty and dignitaries such as King Charles and the Queen of Belgium. In 2024, he recorded and hosted the complete Brahms solo piano music on RTHK4, Classical Radio in Hong Kong. Sham first gained international recognition when he won First Prize in the Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany in 2006, and First Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in 2008. He is the First Prize Winner of the 2018 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions and in2023, he won the Grand Prix at the Monte-Carlo Music Masters. He is also the recipient of top prizes at the Casagrande, Vendome Prize at Verbier Festival, Dublin, Clara Haskil, New York, Saint-Priest and Viotti International Piano Competitions.
Sham holds a Bachelors of Arts from Harvard University and a Masters in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Ingesund School of Music in Sweden with Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist before returning to the States to earn an artist diploma at The Juilliard School with Robert McDonald and Orli Shaham.

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