The Second Concert of the Brahms Cycle

13 and 14 Sep 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House

From Goethe Institut:
This year, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchester performs for the 3rd time under the direction of the German conductor Jonas Alber and you are cordially invited to a concert evening of the Brahms cycle at the opera house in Hanoi.

Program

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Piano Concerto no.2
Allegro non troppo (B-flat major)
Allegro appassionato (D minor)
Andante (B-flat major)
Allegretto grazioso (B-flat major)
Symphony no.2 D major
Allegro non troppo (D major)
Adagio non troppo (B major)
Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) (G major)
Allegro con spirito (D major)

Ticket

Tickets are available from 30th August at:

Hanoi Opera House
Mobile: +84 913489858 and +84 983067996

Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Tel.: +84 4 37242251 – 9
Mobile: +84 983067996 and +84 913489858

Ticket reservation under www.ticketvn.com

Ticket prices:
500.000 VND – 350.000 VND – 200.000 VND; discount for students: 100.000 VND

About artists

Conductor Jonas Alber

Jonas Alber studied violin and conducting in Freiburg and Vienna. The Herbert von Karajan Foundation awarded him a scholarship in 1995. He was General Music Director at the State Theater Braunschweig by 1998, at the time Germany’s youngest conductor in this position and one which he held until 2007. Alber has since worked with renowned orchestras around the world. In January 2010, the “German Year in Vietnam” was inaugurated with a brilliant performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony by the VNSO and the Berlin Philharmonic Choir under Alber’s direction. After another highly successful concert in 2011, when Alber and the VNSO jointly presented Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, we are now more than pleased to once again welcome Jonas Alber in Hanoi this year.

Pianist Dao Trong Tuyen

Dao Trong Tuyen began studying piano in 1981 at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, graduating with honors under the supervise of Prof. Tran Thu Ha. In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Canadian Ministry of Education for his master’s thesis in piano performance at Laval University in Quebec, graduating Cum Laude in 2001. In 2004 Tuyen returned to the University of Montreal with the supervise of Dang Thai Son and received his doctorate there in 2007. Dao Trong Tuyen currently teaches piano at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra


Since its founding in 1959 the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra consists of many successful graduates of the Conservatory of Music in Hanoi. Together with Vietnamese musicians, who have studied at well-respected Conservatories of Music in Europe and Asia, they form the ensemble of the orchestra.

The orchestra already gave concerts under the conduction of the well-known conductors Jonas Alber, Tetsuji Honna, Charles Angsbacher, David Alan Miler, Le Phi Phi… The VNSO has already travelled various countries on their concert tours and received great local and international recognition of critics and colleagues. In honor to the millenial celebration of the city of Hanoi the VNSO successfully performed G. Mahler’s symphony No. 8 with almost 1000 participating artists from Vietnam and abroad.