A corner of Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Overseas Vietnamese in Hong Kong(China) have shared their feelings about Vietnam’s changes after 48 years since the liberation of the South and national reunification (April 30) during a recentinterview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondent.
Fagotartist Nguyen Bao Anh, who graduated from the UK's Royal Academy of Music and currentlyworks as a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, said he isdelighted to see great achievements in the overall development of Vietnam and itsculture in particular.
Fagot artist Nguyen Bao Anh (Photo: VNA) Hewished to play his role as a bridge and music ambassador bringing even bigger musicprojects to Vietnam. In recent years, the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism’s Department of Performing Arts and Department ofInternational Cooperation have welcomed and offered all possible support to himin art projects in the country, he said.
Withthis trust, he pledged to strive even harder to contribute world-class culturaland educational projects to the homeland. Apart from teaching at the Hong KongAcademy for Performing Arts, he is also the Artistic Director of the Ho ChiMinh City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra.
Pianist Nguyen Bich Tra, for her part, said despite having lived abroad since 1987, she frequently returns home to visit her family, perform, andshare her knowledge and experience with young musicians.
She had spent much time onstudying, living, and working in Russia and the UK before moving to Hong Kongin 2018. At the age of 14, she was selected to learn at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music and continued her study with pianist LevNaumov at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1997, she received a scholarship to studywith pianist Christopher Elton at the UK's Royal Academy of Music and graduatedin 1999. She was voted one of the 10 outstanding young faces of Vietnam in2002, and more recently was awarded the title of Associate of the Royal Academyof Music (ARAM) for outstanding musical contributions in 2013.
Pianist Bich Tra (Photo: VNA) Tra said that when she met old friends, they still occasionally mentioned the past when themusic school only had one grand piano. Now, similar pianos are not rare in familieswho love the culture of music education. According to her, this is just a smallperspective, but it can also reflect the change of Vietnam over the pastyears.
Tra said moving to Hong Kong and Vietnam has given hera chance to blend into the flow of musical life in the country and to be closerto her mother. As the daughter of People’s Artist Tra Giang and late Professor, violinist Bich Ngoc, Tra has toured many parts of the world and showed her excellentperformance skills at famous venues such as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall,Cadogan Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Tokyo Opera City.
Talking with the reporter, Thi Quoc Huy,who iscurrently a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University ofScience and Technology, said Vietnam and Hong Kong (China) have witnessedstrong development in recent years, especially in economy, culture, educationand tourism. Hong Kong has been offering many scholarships to studentsfrom Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam.
Hepromised to continue serving as a bridge between students and people of HongKong and Vietnam, bringing Hong Kong students and people closer to and understand more about Vietnam.
In thenear future, he hoped that the Vietnamese Party and State will pay moreattention to overseas Vietnamese communities, and create favourableconditions to attract and help young intellectuals abroad dedicate their brainpower and competence to the cause of national development in the homeland./.
