Concert “Ludwig van Beethoven” at Goethe Institut in November

07 and 08 Nov 2015, 8 pm
Goethe Institut

From Goethe Institut:

This year, on the 245th birthday of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, the Goethe-Institut presents a four-part concert series at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. The ten sonatas for violin and piano will be performed by the renowned musicians Nguyen My Huong and Dao Trong Tuyen.

On 7 and 8 November, the audience can enjoy three sonatas, including Sonata No. 5, which is widely known as the “Spring Sonata” due to its cheerful and hopeful mood. However, it wasn’t Beethoven himself who came up with this name. In fact, his life was everything but easy when he finished the sonata in 1801: Beethoven had just found out that his hearing troubles were no temporary problem, but that he would go deaf. Other works which he composed during this time resonate his fear and despair about his fate.

Beethoven has brought the Classical form to its highest expressive level and he is considered as a pioneer of Romanticism. With his sonatas for violin, composed between 1797 and 1812, he was following his role model Mozart, who recognized the violin as an equal partner for the piano for the first time. Furthermore, Beethoven’s sonata are known for their unconventional modulations and rhythms, which first shocked the audience, but after a while it was seen as the own course of the great classic composer. Around 200 years later you can experience this complete exceptional music cycle for the first time in Hanoi – an exceedingly occasion for lovers of music.

PROGRAM
– Sonata No. 1 in D major, Opus 12
– Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 12
– Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24

Nguyen My Huong studied at Hanoi Art School, Vietnam National Academy of Music with Professor Ngo Van Thanh as well as at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz with Professor Thomas Zehetmair. Among other prices she has been awarded with the “Youth Talent Award”. As a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and the PMF Orchestra she played many concerts abroad and also took part in training courses in Japan, China, Germany, Austria and the USA. Currently, Nguyen My Huong works as a soloist in chamber music concerts with Vietnamese and foreign counterparts. She is second violin principal in the National Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. Moreover, she has received an offer to be concertmaster in Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dao Trong Tuyen studied with several prestigious piano teachers such as Hoang Vinh Huong, Hoang Hoa, Joel Pasquier, Professor Tran Thu Ha and Professor Đặng Thái Sơn. In 2007, he completed his Doctorate of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Montreal in Canada. Dao Trong Tuyen won the first prize in the National piano competition in 1990 and he has played concerts in Canada, France and Japan. He has recorded a large number of works for Vietnam National Television and Vietnam National Radio. He has also performed as a soloist with major orchestras in Vietnam such as Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra and Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

At present, Dao Trong Tuyen is a piano teacher at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Due to the limited number of seats we kindly ask only visitors from the age of 12 and up to come.

Free tickets for 07.11.2015 and the additional concert on 08.11.2015 are available from Monday 02. November, 9 am at Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

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