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Thu, 09/24/2009 - 07:56
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Vietnam National Academy of Music

Hanoi (VNA) – Young musicians from the Vietnam National Academy of Music will be
performing at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2009 music festival.

It will be the first time Vietnamese musicians have been invited to take part in the
festival held in Beethoven’s native city of Bonn . Attending will be top
international orchestras, well-known soloists, major ensembles and promising young
performers.

Two shows by Vietnamese musicians will be held on September 27 and 30 at the
Beethovenhall.

On Sept. 27, the musicians will perform Beethoven’s Coriolanus overture and
Symphony No 7, as well as Rhapsody of Vietnam by Do Hong Quan and Tran Manh Hung’s
Le Chi Vien for orchestra and violin under the baton of French conductor Claire
Levacher.
The second show will feature classical pieces by Beethoven and Max Bruch and R
Schumann. The highlight of the show will be a solo violin performance by Bui Cong
Duy conducted by Germany ’s Peter Gulker.

Duy, 28, is considered the most talented violin artist in Vietnam . He won many
international awards, including first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Music
Contest in 1997; first prize at the Demidov International Music Contest in
Ekaterinburg , Russia , in 1993 and simultaneously the award for the best
performance of J S Bach, for which he was given the title “Asian Pride”.

He has performed in many major music events such as the Saint Petersburg , 1997;
the Gala Concert in Bolshoi, Moscow , in 2003, and the Asian Week Festival in
Tokyo and Osaka .

He has also performed with famous chamber orchestras such as the Novosibirsk
Philharmonic orchestra, the St-Peterburg Phiharmonic Kapella orchestra, the Moscow
Philharmonic orchestra and the London Festival orchestra in many countries such as
Italy , Japan , Germany , Poland , England , Russia and France .

Currently, he teaches at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

After the shows, the musicians will take part in a workshop on Romanticism with a
youth orchestra, which has become a tradition at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

Beethoven festivals in Bonn date back to 1845, when a three-day music event was
held to mark the erection of the Beethoven Monument on the Munsterplatz on the
occasion of the 75 th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Beethovenfest Bonn
has existed in its modern form, namely an annual four-week autumn festival since
1999.

The Vietnamese musicians will also perform in Berlin on October 1.-Enditem



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