Musicians Coline Waters and Remy Lobbos will perform to open the European Music Festival in Hanoi on November 18 (Photo: eumusicfest.vn) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The EuropeanMusic Festival will return to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City featuringinternational and Vietnamese musicians from November 18 to 30.
The musiciansare from Wallonie Bruxelles; Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Franceand Vietnamese who will bring different genres to the festival.
From WallonieBruxelles, Atome will open the festival at the Vietnam Youth Theatre on November 18. Established in 2016, Atome is a French-singing electro-pop band with five members. Only singer and keyboard player Coline Waters and guitarist andvocal Remy Lobbos will perform at the concert in Hanoi.
Hungarian bandTerek Jozsef and His Friends will bring and introduce 'tarogato' to localaudiences, which is a woodwind instrument normally used in Hungarian folkmusic, in HCM City on November 19 and in Hanoi on November 20.
On November21, a show in Hanoi by Italiangroup Mezzotono will feature the five members performing without any musicalinstruments. Instead, they will use their voices toimitate the sound of instruments and use a comical approach to encourage theaudience to get involved.
Award-winningsinger/songwriter Nani from the Netherlands will perform jazz in shows in HCMCity and in Hanoi on November 21and 23. She recently won the SENA Performers Award 2019 NL and theACE Premiere Award 2019 UK.
Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits will bring her her fresh style to Hanoi on November 21 and HCM City on November 24.
On November 27 and 29, German band Ensemble Phoenix Munich will be ledby art director Joel Frederiksen. Six instrumentalists will be accompanied by soprano Julla vonLandsberg. The shows including 17 pieces among them works of Schützand Monteverdi will take place in HCM on November 27 and in Hanoi on November 29.
The festival will close with a performance by French and Vietnamesemusicians. Entitled Lettres De Hanoi (Letters from Hanoi), the multimedia concert will feature the latest pieces composed by Luong Hue Trinh and Jean-David Caillouët.
Artists Nguyen Xuan Son, Nguyen Minh Tam, PabloTognan and Doan Thanh Binh will also perform.
The shows will be held at Vietnam YouthTheatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street from November 18 to 30 andat HCM Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Streetfrom November 19 to 28. Free tickets can be registered for at website eumusicfest.vn./.
