RoK pianist Joo Eun-young is among jurors at the HCM City Piano Competition 2017. (Photo courtesy of HCM Ballet and Symphony Orchestra)HCMCity (VNA) - The first HCM City Piano Competition kicked off on June13 with the participation of about 200 contestants.
Thecompetition is hosted by Conservatory of HCM City, and is open to all youngprofessional and amateur pianists from six to 24 years until June 18.
Theprofessional pianists are from national music schools such as Vietnam NationalAcademy of Music (VNAM); Hanoi College of Arts; Conservatory of HCM City and HueAcademy of Music. They are joined by nine others from Malaysia and the Republicof Korea to compete at the First Group.
SecondGroup will be for amateur pianists across the nation, from places such as Hai Phong,Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Hue, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang, Dak Lak and southernprovinces of Dong Nai and Kien Giang.
"Theconservatory has held a piano festival in the previous years, but we’ve neverheld a formal competition. We wanted to organise a professional contest givingan opportunity for piano students to meet and exchange. It will attract musictalents and popular classical musicians as well," said Dr Ta Quang Dong,the conservatory’s principal and head of organisation board.
"Wehope the competition will be held annually and will become a destination foryoung pianists from all over the world."
Thecompetition will be judged by Vietnamese and international professors of piano,including Prof Dr Tran Thu Ha - former principal of VNAM; German Frank Reichand Korean pianist Joo Eun-young.
ProfessorReich won the First Prize at the National German Competition in 1980. He hastaught at Ettlingen School of Music; Suwon - University in Seoul, the RoK;Minzu University of Beijing and Shenzhen Arts School in China; and at SungshinWomen’s University in Seoul since 2016.
Heis president of the European Union of Music Competition for Youth and managingdirector of Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists.
Younggraduated with distinction from the Vienna State Conservatory of Music in 2000.She obtained a doctorate degree with excellent credits from the Gnessin Academyof Music in Moscow. She has won many international prizes including top honoursat Austria’s prestigious Allegro Vivo international piano competition in 2001.
VietnameseProfessor Ha has served on the juries of several regional piano competitions.She graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in Russia and earned a doctorate fromthe Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Many of her students have been winnersor finalists in competitions in Italy, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and theRoK.-VNA
Thecompetition is hosted by Conservatory of HCM City, and is open to all youngprofessional and amateur pianists from six to 24 years until June 18.
Theprofessional pianists are from national music schools such as Vietnam NationalAcademy of Music (VNAM); Hanoi College of Arts; Conservatory of HCM City and HueAcademy of Music. They are joined by nine others from Malaysia and the Republicof Korea to compete at the First Group.
SecondGroup will be for amateur pianists across the nation, from places such as Hai Phong,Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Hue, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa’s Nha Trang, Dak Lak and southernprovinces of Dong Nai and Kien Giang.
"Theconservatory has held a piano festival in the previous years, but we’ve neverheld a formal competition. We wanted to organise a professional contest givingan opportunity for piano students to meet and exchange. It will attract musictalents and popular classical musicians as well," said Dr Ta Quang Dong,the conservatory’s principal and head of organisation board.
"Wehope the competition will be held annually and will become a destination foryoung pianists from all over the world."
Thecompetition will be judged by Vietnamese and international professors of piano,including Prof Dr Tran Thu Ha - former principal of VNAM; German Frank Reichand Korean pianist Joo Eun-young.
ProfessorReich won the First Prize at the National German Competition in 1980. He hastaught at Ettlingen School of Music; Suwon - University in Seoul, the RoK;Minzu University of Beijing and Shenzhen Arts School in China; and at SungshinWomen’s University in Seoul since 2016.
Heis president of the European Union of Music Competition for Youth and managingdirector of Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists.
Younggraduated with distinction from the Vienna State Conservatory of Music in 2000.She obtained a doctorate degree with excellent credits from the Gnessin Academyof Music in Moscow. She has won many international prizes including top honoursat Austria’s prestigious Allegro Vivo international piano competition in 2001.
VietnameseProfessor Ha has served on the juries of several regional piano competitions.She graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in Russia and earned a doctorate fromthe Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Many of her students have been winnersor finalists in competitions in Italy, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and theRoK.-VNA
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