Five Vietnamese contestants win first prizes at the 18th ZhongSin International Music Competition 2024. ̣Photo courtesy of ZhongSin International Music CompetitionĐ After the regional round held in Vietnam last November, the organising boardidentified 31 eligible contestants to enter the final round of theinternational music competition, which recently took place over five days inSingapore.
The Vietnamese contestants are students from both professional andnon-professional art training institutions such as the Vietnam National Academyof Music, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music, CIS International School -HCM City, Alexandre Yersin French High School – Hanoi and Dewey School system –Hanoi, among others.
The final artistic council of the competition comprised 532 professors,lecturers and experts from renowned art schools, leading music traininginstitutions, as well as professional artists from around the world.
The closing and award ceremony of the competition were held at the StarPerforming Arts Centre in Singapore, with the participation of nearly 4,000parents and contestants.
Pianist Nguyen Le Thuyen Ha, head of the organising board for the preliminaryround in Vietnam of this music competition, is the first Vietnamese artist toappear on the Final Round judging panel in Singapore.
According to her, competing against over 1,000 contestants from variouscountries worldwide, the Vietnamese contestants achieved remarkable results,bringing honour and pride to Vietnam on the international artistic stage.
Vietnamese contestants won three first prizes in the Amateur category acrossdifferent age groups, Piano discipline, and two first prizes in the disciplineof vocal music and traditional musical instrument - bamboo flute.
They also secured one second prize in the Open category in the Compositiondiscipline; 10 second prizes in the Amateur category across different agegroups, in the disciplines of Piano, Vocal Music, Jazz Drum, and Violin; aswell as 13 third prizes in the Amateur category across different age groups, inthe discipline of Piano.
In addition, the Vietnamese delegation also achieved a Top 5 ranking in theOpen category in the discipline of Piano; and one Best Performance Award in theProfessional category, in the discipline of Vocal Music.
This year’s event is the first time a traditional Vietnamese musicalinstrument, the Mong flute, has appeared. Ly Minh Cuong, a young man from thenorthern province of Ha Giang, won the first prize in the Traditional MusicalInstrument category.
The first Zhongsin International Music Competition was held in Singapore backin 2007. The competition aims to be one of the most professional,all-encompassing international music competitions of its kind. Upon itsfounding, this competition received tremendous support from the National ArtsCouncil of Singapore and the Singapore Chinese Music Association.
The contest includes preliminary and final rounds, with the preliminaryqualifiers having over 50,000 entrants, while 1,000 finalists attend thecompetition every year. Competitors come from different countries around theworld and compete against each other in categories such as piano, voice,strings, guitar, winds, electronic organ, accordion, percussion and folkinstruments./.
VNA
