Vietnamese-French violinist Pham Vinh will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major at the HCM City Opera House on November 30 (Photo courtesy of HBSO) HCM City (VNS/VNA) -Vietnamese-French violinist Pham Vinh will perform works by Russian composerTchaikovsky at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on November 30.
Vinh will play the Violin Concerto in D Major,op 35 accompanied by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO)symphony orchestra.
With support from Russian violinist JosefKotek, Tchaikovsky wrote the concerto in 1878 during his trip to Switzerland torecover from depression.
The three-movement concerto was firstperformed in 1881 by Russian violinist Adolf Brodsky and the ViennaPhilharmonic in Austria.
Vinh studied violin with the legendaryAmerican-born British violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and at the InternationalMenuhin Music Academy-Gstaad in Switzerland. He has won top prizes atinternational chamber music competitions.
Vinh started playing violin with Frenchmusicians in Paris at the age of seven, and then gave his first concerts as asoloist at 13.
He has played at prestigious concert hallsin Europe, and appeared in numerous concerts with many well-known orchestras inEurope, the US, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The concert will continue with excerptsfrom Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite with the HBSO symphony orchestra led byconductor Tran Vuong Thach, the HBSO’s director.
Thạch studied music at the RoyalConservatory of Liège in Belgium and the Conservatory of Maastricht in theNetherlands.
He has worked as conductor with the VietnamSymphony Orchestra, the Nis Symphony Orchestra in Serbia, and the New PrimeSymphony Orchestra in Pusan, the Republic of Korea. He won the title of MeritoriousArtist in 2007.
He led the HBSO in the Asian Orchestra Weekin Tokyo in 2014.
The concert begins at 8pm on November 30 atthe Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1. Tickets can be purchased atthe venue’s box office or at www.ticketbox.vn./.
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