The Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas from May 23 to June 8, 1997. Jon Nakamatsu won the competition, while Yakov Kasman and Aviram Reichert were awarded the Silver and bronze medals. [1]
William Bolcom composed his Nine Bagatelles for the competition.
John Giordano (chairman)
Marius Constant Dean Elder Claude Frank 
Ian Hobson Warren Jones Jerome Lowenthal 
Hiroko Nakamura 
Lev Naumov 
Cécile Ousset Menahem Pressler 
Piero Rattalino
Dubravka Tomšič 
Alexis Weissenberg | Contestant | R1 | SF | F |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susumu Aoyagi |  | ||
| Andrew Armstrong | | ||
| Yuri Bogdanov | | ||
| Victor Chestopal |  | | |
 Naida Cole | | | |
 Mikhail Danchenko | | | |
 Alexandre Dossin | | ||
| Filippo Gamba | | | |
| Joel Hastings | | ||
 Stanislav Ioudenitch | | w/d | |
 Jan Gottlieb Jiracek | | | |
| Yakov Kasman | | |  |
 Yong-kyu Lee | | ||
 Aleksandar Madžar | | | |
| Peter Miyamoto | | ||
| Anton Mordasov | | ||
| Jon Nakamatsu | | |  |
| Olga Pushechnikova | | ||
 Aviram Reichert | | |  |
| Fernando Rossano | | ||
 Per Rundberg | | ||
 Yuan Sheng | | ||
| Margarita Shevhchenko | | ||
| Christopher Shih | | ||
| Niklas Sivelöv | | ||
| Katia Skanavi | | | |
| Alex Slobodyanik | | ||
| Ju-ying Song | | ||
| Dmitri Teterin | | ||
 Albert Tiu | | ||
 Dimitri Vassilakis | | ||
 Georgi Vachnadze | | ||
| Lev Vinocour | | | |
| Dmitri Vorobiev | | ||
| Yi Wu | |
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