The Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas from May 25 to June 10, 2001.
Olga Kern and Stanislav Ioudenitch won the competition ex-aequo, while Maxim Philippov and Antonio Pompa-Baldi shared the silver medal. [1] It was the first time the two pianists earned the top prize.
The Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was the first time in the history of the competition that the Van Cliburn Foundation commissioned more than one original composition. At the suggestion of composer John Corigliano, a 25-member nominating committee of distinguished musicians issued invitations to 42 noted American composers to submit solo piano scores 8 to 12 minutes in length. Thirty-one scores were submitted. Original works by four American composers were chosen: C. Curtis-Smith, Lowell Liebermann, James Mobberley, and Judith Lang Zaimont. [2]
John Giordano (chairman)
Marcello Abbado 
Joaquín Achúcarro Eileen Tate Cline Richard Dyer Claude Frank Thomas Frost 
Andrzej Jasinski 
Yoheved Kaplinsky 
Jürgen Meyer-Hosten
Jean-Marc Peysson Menahem Pressler 
Guangren Zhou| Contestant | R1 | SF | F |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandra Maria Ammara |  |  | |
| Maurizio Baglini | | | |
| Dror Biran | | ||
 Yuri Blinov | | ||
| Stefania Cafaro | | ||
| Yunjie Chen | | ||
| Ying Feng | | ||
| Davide Franceschetti | | | |
 Tadashi Imai | | ||
 Stanislav Ioudenitch | | |  |
 Paavali Jumppanen | | ||
| Amir Katz | | ||
 Olga Kern | | | |
 Alexey Koltakov | | | |
| Sergei Kudriakov | | | |
 Chih-Han Liu | | ||
| Albert Mamriev | | ||
| Maxim Maniukov | | ||
| Oxana Mikhailov | | ||
| Anton Mordasov | | ||
| Alexandre Moutouzkine | | ||
| Masaru Okada | | | |
 Jong-hwa Park | | ||
| Jong-gyung Park | | ||
| Maxim Philippov | | |  |
| Antonio Pompa-Baldi | | | |
| Vassily Primakov | | | |
| Andrew Russo | | ||
 Edna Stern | | ||
| Xiaohan Wang | | | |
| Roger Wright | |
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