HCMC – Three Sensational Concerts within 30 Hours

Concert Stephanie Chase and Friends: Sat 18 Aug 2018, 8 pm
Concert with Quatuor Arod: Sun 19 Aug 2018, 4 pm
Gala Concert: Sun 19 Aug 2018, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

From the organizer:

Three concerts with high quality performances with the gathering of more than 20 international artists and Vietnamese classical musicians are performing in the country and abroad. Three special programs are in the Vietnam Connection Music Festival (VNCMF) in collaboration with HBSO, which will take place at 8pm on Saturday, August 18th, 4pm and 8pm Sunday 19th.

World-renowned violinist Stephanie Chase to perform in Saigon, along with many other celebrities.

1. The concert on August 18 is titled “Stephanie Chase and Friends”.

Stephanie is a major American violinist and considered one of the finest violinists in the world. She has performed with over 170 orchestras worldwide, and her appearance this month in Vietnam is an exceptionally important musical event.

First she will perform in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. These are four violin concertos, each dedicated to a season of the year. After the interval she will play again, firstly in Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. The second soloist will be Vietnam’s renowned violinist Bui Cong Duy. Lastly will come Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor. The soloists this time will be Stephanie Chase, Zhan Shu, Hoang Linh Chi and Chuong Vu.

In all these works Stephanie Chase will act as conductor as well as soloist.

For reference: Stephanie Chase plays the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in F Major for violin and piano, op. 24 (“Spring”) with pianist Sara Davis Buechner:

2. The concert beginning at 4pm on Sunday August 19 will consist of chamber music played by the Quatuor Arod.

The Quatuor Arod is a young all-male string quartet from France, founded in 2013. It has received enormous acclaim, winning first prize in several competitions, and its appearance in Vietnam is an event of equal importance to that of Stephanie Chase.

The program begins with Haydn’s very early Quartet Number 3, “The Rider” (he was to write 68 string quartets in all). They will then perform Al ‘Asr by Benjamin Attahir, a composer with whom they have been closely associated. This will be the premier of this composition for Vietnam and another important musical event. Lastly they will play Schumann’s String Quartet No. 1.

Tickets for this afternoon concert, which features an internationally renowned quartet of players, are notably inexpensive – from 300,000 VND to 80,000 VND (for students).

Quatour Arod plays the first movement of Schubert’s Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden”:

3. Finally, on the Sunday evening, there will be a Gala Concert dedicated to concertos for multiple instruments.

This will be another star-studded event, with the reappearance of Stephanie Chase and Bui Cong Duy, and the addition of yet another celebrity, Canadian violinist Christina Bouey, who will act as the evening’s concertmaster.

There is a very full program, including Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins and Two Cellos, Bach’s Second Brandenburg Concerto, Giovanni Bottesini’s Grand Duo Concerto for Violin and Double-bass, Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon.

The evening’s conductor will be Honna Tetsuji, and tickets are from 650,000 VND to 80,000 VND (students).

Christina Bouey plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra:

This promises to be a quite exceptional weekend of high-class music. Among other foreign guests are Katie Wikesberg (violin), Michael Sinicropi (trumpet), Bronwyn Banerdt (cello), Jeff Bradetich and Gudrun Raschen (double-bass), Colin Brookes and Andrew Wickesberg (viola), William Scharnberg (horn), John Scott (clarinet) and Elliot Figg (harpsichord).

Rarely has Saigon seen such celebrities on stage together, or such a sequence of top-notch compositions, all within 30 hours of each other. This, in other words, has all the hallmarks of being a sensational weekend for classical music in Vietnam.

Tickets

Concert with Quatuor Arod: 300,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (limited offer for students)
Concert Stephanie Chase and Friends, Gala Concert: 650,000 – 500,000 – 400,000 – 300,000 – 200,000 VND (limited offer for students)
Booking and delivery: 028 38237419, Ms. Ngoc: 0903604539
At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square
Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn