Showing posts with label concert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concert. Show all posts

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Famous Australian musicians to perform in Hanoi

Famous Australian musicians to perform in Hanoi

Two leading Australian performers will impress Hanoi audiences at a
free concert at Radio the Voice of Vietnam Theatre on February 28.


The concert, titled “Brothers in Concert: Sounds of Colours”, will be
jointly organised by the Australian Embassy in Hanoi and Radio the Voice
of Vietnam, according to a press release from the Australian Embassy.


It will feature performances by guitarist Leonard
Grigoryan and Joseph Tawadros who specialises in the oud, a kind of
lute, as well as other well-known Vietnamese artists.


The Grigoryan and Tawadros family names are synonymous with modern
Australian classical music. Regarded as one of Australia ’s finest
classical guitarists, Grigoryan is also well-known for playing different
kinds of music such as latin, jazz, folk and contemporary music.


Tawadros is recognised as one of the world’s leading performers and
composers for the oud (an eleven stringed lute of Middle-Eastern
origin). With his brilliant technique and lively performing style, he
has appeared in many concert halls worldwide and has dazzled audience
with his passionate music.


The Australian Ambassador
to Vietnam , Allaster Cox, said that the concert will help to bring
Australian and Vietnamese closer together by this collaboration of
artists from both countries.


Grigoryan and Tawadros
will also share their experiences with students at the Vietnam National
Academy of Music and the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music./.

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Vietnam symphony orchestra performs in US

Vietnam symphony orchestra performs in US

Artists from the Vietnam National
Symphony Orchestra (VNNO) joined with others from Japan, the Republic
of Korea and the United States in a concert at Carnegie Hall in
New York on Jan. 8.

Themed “Peace”, the joint concert was the
first of its kind in New York, drawing diplomat officials and audiences
from the four countries.


With works by the world’s well-known
composers of Mikhail Glinka, Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, the
artists reflected the aspiration of peace and friendship among nations.


Ambassador
Bui The Giang, Deputy Head of the Vietnamese permanent delegation to
the UN, said this is first time in New York a join music concert of
Vietnam, the RoK, Japan and the US has taken place.


“This is a
symbol of development of friendship and cooperation among nations and
delivers a message of peace and friendship to people all over the
world,” Ambassador Giang said before the performance.


The concert
under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji is performed by
artists from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, the US Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra and 16-year-old pianist Isadora Kim of the RoK./.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Danish artist joins Vietnamese group

Danish artist joins Vietnamese group

Ngoc Dai and his group Dai Lam Linh will perform with Danish saxophonist
Lotta Anker in a concert of contemporary music in Hanoi on Dec. 10.


The concert will also include singers Thanh Lam, Linh Dung, and Ha Linh,
the Thai Ha ca tru (ceremonial singing) troupe, and a 12-member string
band from the Vietnam Academy of Music.


The programme would aim to combine traditional and modern, Eastern and Western music, Dai said.


"The artists will perform as they tell stories in their own ways," said Dai.


"For instance, the song "Regret" will be performed three times,
experimentally by Linh Dung and Thanh Lam, in a pop style by Ha Linh,
and in Lotta Anker's version.


"I met Lotta last year and I like her very much," he added. "She listens my music too and I wanted to collaborate with her."


Anker arrived in Vietnam last week and has been rehearsing with Dai's band and material.


Dai debuted his first symphony in 1979 before he had even graduated
from the Vietnam National Academy of Music. He has written about 500
songs in various genres and released four CDs. His 2002 concert Solar
Eclipse I was a shock to the Vietnam music scene and was recognised as a
landmark of innovation and originality.


For this Dec.
10’s concert, the stage will be designed by artist Dang Huy Quyen in a
black-and-white motif echoing the yin and yang.


The
concert, funded by the Danish Culture Exchange and Development
Foundation, will take place at the 8pm at the Kim Ma Theatre, 71 Kim Ma
Street./.

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