Pianist and VC Artist Aristo Sham has recently released his new album titled Timeline. The disc is made up of repertoire Sham played on the international tour he undertook after winning the 2025 Van Cliburn International Competition.

The disc opens with J. S. Bach's Toccata in C Minor, and this is followed by a number of Busoni-Bach transcriptions, including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645, the Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004, and the Brahms-Busoni set of 6 Chorale Preludes. These are rounded out with Busoni's Variations on a Chopin Prelude in C minor and Grieg's Holberg Suite.

 

 

The winner of the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Sham has performed across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Major highlights including appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart, English Chamber Orchestra under the late Sir Raymond Leppard, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Minnesota Orchestra.

Sham studied a joint degree program at Harvard and the New England Conservatory, studying with Victor Rosenbaum. He went on to the Ingesund School of Music in Sweden to study with Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist before returning to the States to earn an artist diploma at The Juilliard School with Robert McDonald and Orli Shaham.

He has recently signed with Universal Music Hong Kong.

"I am so excited to enter a new artistic arena through my partnership with Universal Music, and infinitely grateful to be entrusted with sharing my voice and visions in music, art and life, to a wider audience through the medium of recordings, hopefully contributing to new and profound experiences where we may push the frontiers of what we can do with art," Sham said.