Local wins world piano championship

Local pianist Bobby van Deusen has won his second world championship in the Senior Division of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Contest.

Every year over Memorial Day weekend in Oxford, Mississippi, the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest is held to provide an opportunity for pianists to compete and learn in a stimulating atmosphere, and to educate people about old-time piano music written prior to 1940.
Through the years, the contest has provided more than $60,000 in prize money to more than 500 piano players from across the United States and from five foreign countries. 

Bobby van Deusen also won the senior division in 2019.

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