Musician Do Hong Quan will attend the World New Music Days festival in Denmark from June 21-30. — (Photo: hoinhacsi.net) The piece was composed by Do Hong Quan in 2014 for threeflautists. It has been performed by Monash Academy Orchestra in Australia in2018.
"Tieng Rung usespolymelodies to convey the sounds of nature and the jungle," said Quan."If people listen they will feel the sentiment of the jungle and the lovefor the jungle which is a part of human life on the planet."
Concert flute, alto flute and bass flute will perform Tieng Rung in theTrios or Quartets category. This section also includes the piece Tempo variabile bySvetlana Savic from the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)Serbia and additional works from Faroe Islands TBA.
The festival will include concerts by Faroese and Nordicensembles, informal ensembles and collaborations and soloists.
The music featured throughout this festival will include new andinnovative works from across the international membership of the ISCM.
The concert venues range from concert halls and theatres to jazzbars and open-air ravines and grottos.
The festival is held by ISCM from June 21-30. It is a premierforum for the advancement, dissemination and interchange of new music fromaround the world.
Attending the festival are 64 composers from 55 ISCM membercountries. The works are shorter than 10 minutes in duration and composed after2014.
Through ISCM, members promote contemporary music in all its variedforms, strengthening musical life in their local contexts and making theirmusic and its creators known to world.
Organised each year by a different host, the festival presentsmusic from each of member section, showcasing the incredible diversity ofmusical practice in time. Recent festivals have taken place in Estonia, China,Canada, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Poland, Belgium, Australia, Croatia,Hong Kong and Japan.
Since its founding in 1922, the network has grown to include morethan 60 organisations in over 50 countries and territories, on every continent.
Musician Quan studied composition with Professor Albert Leman andconducting with Leonid Nicolaev at the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia, anddid his senior internship at Paris National Conservatory.
His works have been performed in Moscow, Uzbekistan, Bonn, Paris,Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila and Kazan with renowned conductors fromJapan, France, Germany, Spain, Russia and the US.
He has directly conducted and arranged opera works. Currently, heis chairman of the Vietnam Union of Literary and Art Associations. Quan joinedthe ISCM Virtual Cooperative Series 2020.
TiengRung will be performed on June 26 at Funningur Kirkja./.
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