Between the Strings
08 pm, Tues 05 Aug 2025
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ích, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Surcharge: 350,000 vnđ / each (incl. one drink)
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From the organizer:
At ‘Between the Strings’, Vietnamese folk music and Swedish folk tunes will rise together through the sounds of the monochord (đàn Bầu) and the violin. This East-West fusion conjures a vibrant canvas of sound — at once strange and familiar, interlaced yet solitary, distant yet intimately bound. It is a call to drift, to wander to the realm of oblivion, to dance and celebrate in the farthest corner… For sound can do whatever it pleases.
About artists:
Ngô Trà My is Đàn Bầu lecture in Vietnam National Academy of Music. She is one of the famous Đàn Bầu soloists in Viet Nam. Her fields of activities are teaching, performing, and researching traditional, contemporary and experimental music. She has participated in many art events in Vietnam and around the world. Trà My is the Vietnamese representative Music Committee and a member of the Asia Traditional Orchestra, the advisor of the Casean Consonant Ensemble member of The Six Tones international experimental music group, Thang Long traditional music group, MMTM new music group.
Mats Edén born in 1957, has his roots in the rich soil of folk music from Värmland. He studied composition in Oslo in the 80ths at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo for Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen.
His music ranges from the avant-garde to the very traditional. He is a nationally recognized master of the melodeon. In 2019, Mats received the award “The prestigious Zorn badge in gold for extremely prominent musicians and tradition bearers”. His fiddle playing is both elegant and rough, with its own combination of Värmlandian and Norwegian sounds.
Mats has been a member of the acclaimed Swedish folk ensemble Groupa since its start in 1981 and has written a lot of the band’s songs. His third solo album Milvus (with Jonas Simonson) was released on the ECM label.Mats is a professor in folk music at Malmö Academy of Music, where he teaches violin, music theory and ensemble. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Music, Swedish Society of Composers, STIM and SKAP.
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