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Top violinist to celebrate Beethoven’s birthday

Vietnam’s leading violinist Bui Cong Duy will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the HCM City Opera House on October 31 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birthday.
Top violinist to celebrate Beethoven’s birthday ảnh 1Vietnam’s leading violinist Bui Cong Duy (Photo: VNA)

HCMCity (VNS/VNA) –
Vietnam’s leading violinist Bui Cong Duy willperform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto atthe HCM City Opera House on October 31 to celebrate the 250th anniversary ofBeethoven’s birthday.  

Duy, deputy rector for concert activities at the Vietnam National Academyof Music, will perform with the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra andOpera (HBSO).

Beethoven composed Violin Concerto in1806. It was first performed in 1845 by Austrian violinist Franz Clement,but the performance was unsuccessful.

In 1844, the three-movement concerto was played by 12-year-old violinist JosephJoachim with the orchestra of the London Philharmonic Society conducted byFelix Mendelssohn. Since then it has had innumerable recordings.

Duy, 39, who began playing violin at the age of four under the instruction ofhis father, violinist Bui Cong Thanh, is a graduate of the TchaikovskyNational Music College in Moscow.

He has won top prizes at international competitions, including first prize anda gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for YoungMusicians in St Petersburg in 1997.

He has performed at concerts in many European and Asian countries, andat prestigious halls such as Berliner Symphoniker in Germany andCapella Concert Hall in Russia. 

Duy has been a featured soloist in many important events such as the SpecialConcert for the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Hà Nội in 2015, SpecialConcert for APEC 2017 in Vietnam, and welcoming concerts for the Presidentof Russia and the President of the Republic of Korea.

He has served as a jury member at international competitions such as the VIInternational Violin Competition in Astana, Kazakhstan in 2016, and the 8th and10th Tchaikovsky International Competitions for Young Musicians in Moscow in2014 and in Astana in 2017.

He has been artistic director of the Vietnam Classical Players and executivedirector of the Việt Nam Connection Music Festival since 2015.

The HBSO symphony orchestra will continue the night with Beethoven’s Symphony No 6, also known as the Pastoral Symphony.

The five-movement symphony was composed in 1808, and was first played in thesame year at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

Conductor Le Ha My, a graduate of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, willlead the concert.

My has orchestrated and conducted successful concerts with YaroslavPhilharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow State Conservatory Orchestra, and the GlinkaConservatory Orchestra of Magnitogorsk City.

Since 2010, he has collaborated with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, VietnamNational Opera and Ballet Orchestra and HBSO, and has organised severalmusical programmes with Vietnam Television (VTV).

The concert will begin at 8pm. The venue is at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1.Tickets are available at the venue’s box office and at www.ticketbox.vn./.
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