The Hanoi Opera House will resound to the music of Beethoven on March 3 and 4.

Pianist Tamura Hibiki will perform Piano Concerto No 4 under the baton of Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini, who has worked with more than 80 symphony orchestras around the world.

Symphony No 4 and Leonore Overture No 3 will also be performed at the two-day event.

The concert is one of a series of works by Beethoven that have been performed by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) since the beginning of 2009.

Among Vietnamese stars performing at the concerts were pianist Nguyen Bich Tra and conductor Le Phi Phi. Japanese musicians Mukaiyama Tomoko and Suzuki Hidemi will also perform.

Campestrini has served as principal conductor at the prestigious Essen Aalto Musiktheater and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany , where he has conducted more than 100 performances by 15 different operas.

In Asia, Campestrini has worked with the Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Japan he annually conducts at the Sakai City Opera Osaka.

This year will include his debut with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest , as well as his debut in Spain with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra.

Japanese pianist Tamura Hibiki, born in December 1986, won first prize at the Long-Thibaud International Piano Competition in 2007./.