Just in: Marin Alsop to chair Van Cliburn competition

This is seriously positive news.

The last competition had Leonard Slatkin in the chair and he tolerated no dirty backroom deals between professors.

Marin will be no less rigorous.

press release:
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 28, 2019—The Cliburn announces today that Marin Alsop will be the jury chairman for the Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 28–June 12, 2021, at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas USA. Widely considered one of the preeminent international music contests, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition exists to share excellent classical music with the largest international audience possible and to launch the careers of its winners every four years.