Vienna new years concert

Viet kieu pianist to play City concert (24-01-2008) by Duc Ngoc Tickling the ivories: Pianist Van Anh. — VNS Photo HCM CITY— Twenty-year-old Vietnamese-Australian pianist Van Anh will perform at the HCM City Conservatory of Music on Sunday. Anh, who now lives in Australia, will play several classics like Mozart’s Sonata K331 and Chopin ‘s Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brilliante. Performing alongside the HCM City Conservatory of Music Orchestra, she will also play works by Scambati and Scriabin. Born in Australia in 1987, Anh began studying piano at the Sydney Music Institute at the age of four. She obtained an associate diploma in piano when just nine. She won high honours at the Vienna International Pianists Summer Festival 2003 and won the Audience Choice award at the 2005 Klavier Summer Festival in Germany. She has won several prizes in competitions for young pianists organised in Sydney over the years and was a New South Wales state … [Read more...] about Viet kieu pianist to play City concert

New tunes: Violinist Tang Thanh Nam and pianist Joo Eun-young will perform at a concert to celebrate the New Year at the HCM City Opera House on Monday. — VNS Photo Duc Ngoc HCM CITY — The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will celebrate the New Year with a chamber music and opera show by South Korean and Vietnamese artists at the Opera House on Monday. Korean cellist Joo Hye-young and pianist Joo Eun-Young will open the concert with Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major. The former returned home with a master's degree from the Vienna State Conservatory in Austria and joined first the Seoul Sinfonietta orchestra and later the Seoul Millennium Orchestra, and has taught at Sahmyook University in Seoul. Eun-young graduated from the same Vienna school and did her master's at the Moscow Gnessin Academy. She is now a professor in the piano department at the HCM City Conservatory of Music (HCCM). She will then join violinist Tang Thanh Nam to play the … [Read more...] about Classical music ushers in new year

Famous conductor Charles Ansbacher, who conducted the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in VietNamNet’s Reconciliation Concert in April, passed away at the age of 67 on September 12th at his home in Cambridge, MA. Although knowing for the past 13 months that he had an incurable brain tumor, Ansbacher, a White House Fellow (WHF), courageously continued his life’s mission of bringing free orchestral music to diverse audiences. Conductor Ansbacher was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 5, 1942, and found his love for music at a young age, encouraged by his parents–noted Adlerian psychologists Drs. Heinz Ludwig and Rowena Ripin Ansbacher. He majored in physics at Brown University but switched to music after creating a successful chamber orchestra with his classmates. His musical studies also included the University of Cincinnati and the Mozarteum in Austria. In the early 1970’s, he moved to Colorado, where he served for nearly two decades as the music … [Read more...] about American conductor of ‘Reconciliation Concert’ passes away

Korean conductor Lim Jun-o and violinist Paik Jae-jin will perform with the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera in a concert at HCM City’s Opera House on March 9. The concert will feature music by Italian, German and Russian composers. The orchestra will open the show by playing the overture to “the Barber of Seville”, a popular 18 th century opera by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Highlights include a performance by violinist Paik Jae-jin, who is a music professor at the Dong-Eui University in Busan, the Republic of Korea (RoK). Paik will play a violin concerto by German composer and conductor Max Bruch. The concert will continue with Russian music, including Shostakovich’s well-known Symphony No 5. Paik, one of the talented violinists from the RoK, graduated from Seoul National University. In 1989, he continued his studies at the Wien Musik Hochschule in Australia. He has taken part in many concerts at home and abroad, and worked with … [Read more...] about Orchestra concert to introduce top Korean violinist

Wagner, Verdi and a myriad of waltzes will broadcast live to 81 countries when the Vienna Philharmonic kicks off 2013 with its traditional New Year's Concert on January 1. The event -- sold out over a year in advance and followed by millions around the world -- will once again be conducted by Franz Welser-Moest, musical director at the Vienna Opera, after his first appearance in 2011. Together with the orchestra, Welser-Moest has devised a programme full of novelties: 11 of the 16 pieces performed at the Musikverein's grand Golden Hall on Tuesday will be playing at the New Year's Concert for the first time. Among them are tributes to German composer Richard Wagner and Italian Giuseppe Verdi, both of whom will be celebrated on their 200th birthday next year. Wagner's dramatic Prelude to Act Three of "Lohengrin" and ballet music from Verdi's opera "Don Carlo" will however alternate with the Strauss dynasty polkas and waltzes that are most associated with this classical event. "It should … [Read more...] about Vienna New Year’s concert rings in 2013 with Wagner, Verdi