Artist and Band Line-up for European Music Festival 2014
Hanoi: 22 Nov – 05 Dec 2014
Youth Theatre
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HCMC: 24 Nov – 05 Dec 2014
HCMC Conservatory of Music
From Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam:
The European Music Festival 2014, jointly organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam and seven Embassies of European Union Member States and European Cultural Institutes, will kick off in Hanoi on 22 November and in Ho Chi Minh City on 24 November and run until 5 December 2014 at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi and the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh city.
This 13th edition of the festival will feature well-known musical talents from Austria, Wallonia-Brussels (Belgium), France, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden as well as a guest band from Vietnam.
With a total of sixteen concerts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the festival offers Vietnamese audiences the prospect of experiencing different genres of music, including engaging jazz melodies with incredible voices and great songs, classic, contemporary well as Vietnamese traditional music. The festival will also showcase interesting interaction between European and Vietnamese musicians.
This year, duo Vaiana/Keita from Wallonia-Brussels (Belgium) will make a debut. The duo is the passionate combination of the saxophonist Belgian Pierre Vaiana and the Ivorian balafonist Aly Keita. These two renowned soloists would offer a musical dialogue beyond styles and cultures together with their guest- the Vietnamese T’rung virtuoso Hoa Dang.
The festival continues with performances by Artur Dutkiewic – one of the greatest Polish jazz pianists and composers. For not only fans of jazz but also of classical music, his piano concert will no doubt captivate their musical soul with remarkable compositions.
Célia Mara is an engaging front vocalist from Vienna, Austria who never fails to impress with her strong voice, amazing vocal improvisations, and quick switches to beat boxing and – sometimes – trumpet solos. And now, Célia Mara, together with her band, is ready to bring “Bastardista” to Vietnam for the first time.
Germany’s musical ambassadors this year is the Tingvall Trio. The interplay between three members from different countries gives the band a unique individuality.
Luxembourgish composer and pianist David Ianni will invite all audiences on a mystical, yet virtuosic journey through his musical landscapes. His music has been described by the press as “prayer and introspection” and as a “firework of pianistic brilliance and technical versatility”.
Kristin Amparo is vocalist introduced by the Embassy of Sweden together with Selam with utmost confidence. During the European Music Festival, she will be performing together with guitarist Emmanuel Hailermariam and musician Andreas Unge who have won great international success.
On 5 December the festival will be closed in Ho Chi Minh city by the French talented trio Le Tab and in Hanoi by the Vietnamese guest band “Mat Troi Do”.
With acoustics simple and colourful, Le Tab’s music is the result of composition and arrangement drawing on image and historic associations, strongly impregnated with stories and images of a thousand-colour world.
Mat Troi Do, Vietnam’s leading band pioneering the mixture of Vietnamese pieces with various international genres, has brought new charm and touch to Vietnamese traditional music. At the European Music Festival, the band will create not only familiar but also unfamiliar Asian-Europe musical ambience, both engaging and captivating.
Full information about the event can be found at the website of festival.
