FORT WORTH -- In the concluding concert of the finals round of the Van Cliburn piano competition, three pianists had a chance to make a real impression right before jurors adjourned to decide the winners. Nobuyuki Tsujii (20, Japan), Haochen Zhang (19, China) and Di Wu (24, China) did not perceptively elevate their chances over past recital performances. Nor did anyone crash and burn.

Vacatello has been among the sunniest of the competition’s 29 pianists.

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The Cliburn sprints to the finish line. A winner will be crowned Sunday afternoon.

SLIDE SHOW: Saturday's finals performances

Nobuyuki Tsujii, 20, Japan, 1:30 p.m.

Nobuyuki Tsujii, a blind pianist from Japan, and Haochen Zhang, the 19-year-old phenom from China, tied for first place at the Cliburn.

FORT WORTH -- Bob Schieffer’s in town for the Cliburn. The CBS News correspondent – and host of the Sunday morning staple Face the Nation – will give the keynote address at Sunday’s Cliburn awards presentation.

In 2005, 20-year-old pianist Di Wu failed to advance past the preliminaries of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, but her darkest times were yet to come. A year after the Cliburn, Wu’s longtime romantic relationship ended. By then, her mother had returned to their native China after a long stay with her daughter in the United States. The pianist had developed few close friends at the Juilliard School in New York, where she was a first-year graduate student.

We’ve heard each of six finalists play one concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and conductor James Conlon. Each has one more to go. Three of the six have played their solo recitals; three more are forthcoming.

SLIDE SHOW: Friday's finals performances

Haochen Zhang, 19, China, 1:30 p.m.

Laura Bruton, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s principal violist, found a practical solution to avoid a 60-mile round-trip commute to her home in the Denton County town of Argyle during the Cliburn competition.

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