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Vietnamese composer's works performed at int’l guitar competition in Berlin

Works by Vietnamese professor and guitarist Dang Ngoc Long were among the required performances at the International Guitar Competition and Festival Berlin 2022 which wrapped up on October 15.
Vietnamese composer's works performed at int’l guitar competition in Berlin ảnh 1Vietnamese professor and guitarist Dang Ngoc Long performs at the finale of the International Guitar Competition and Festival Berlin 2022. (Photo: VNA)
Berlin (VNA) – Works by Vietnamese professor and guitarist Dang Ngoc Long were among the required performances at the International GuitarCompetition and Festival Berlin 2022 which wrapped up on October 15.

Long has acted as the biennial event’s art director for nine times.

This year’s event saw the competition among fifteencontestants who are students from professional music schools from 11 countries,namely Italy, Germany, Spain, Paraguay, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands,Luxemburg, Chile, the Republic of Korea and France.

They all were required to perform Long’s classical piece ofmusic Faust–Sonata, inspired by a tragedy by Germany’s Johann Wolfgang Goethe, duringthe first and second qualifying rounds of the competition.

The finale featured guitar performances of severalVietnamese folk songs, such as “Nui rung Tay Nguyen” (Central Highlands’mountains and forests), “Nguoi o dung ve” (My darling, please don’t leave) and “Dicay” (Paddy transplanting), by Prof. Dao Ngoc Long and two winners in 2014 and2020 from Denmark and Belarus.

Talking to Vietnam News Agency after the contest, Long, Directorof the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen, unveiled his intention to bring thecompetition to Vietnam on the occasion of its 20th anniversary./.
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