2025-26 Season

California State University, Fresno • Concert Hall

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Aristo Sham

Gold Medallist
2025 Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition

Friday, February 6, 2026 • 7:30PM

Hailed by The New York Times as a pianist “whose playing combines clarity, elegance and abundant technique” and by The Washington Post as a young artist with “boundless potential”  who can “already hold his own with the best”, pianist Aristo Sham has dazzled audiences on five continents. In 2009 he was featured in the documentary, ‘The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies’, broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK.

Concert Program

J.S. BACH/BUSONI
Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004
BRAHMS/BUSONI
Six Chorale Preludes, Op.122
CHOPIN/BUSONI
Variations on the Prelude in C minor, Op.28 No.20
BRAHMS
Selected Klavierstücke from Op.76, Op.116, Op.118, and Op.119
Sonata in C Major, Op.1