Professor Truong Vu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia with works ranging from pre-classical to contemporary. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner has praised Truong Vu's "refined and poetic" playing.
A regular soloist with all major orchestras in Vietnam, Chuong Vu has appeared as a guest soloist with orchestras in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, performing a wide range of concertos and popular works for violin and orchestra. Chuong Vu holds a BA and MA from the University of Houston and a PhD in Music from the University of North Texas.
In addition to his current position as violin professor at the European Academy of Fine Arts, Chuong Vu has held teaching positions at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Arlington (USA). As Artistic Director of the Vietnam Connection Music Festival and Artistic Advisor of the Vietnam International Music Competition, Chuong Vu actively contributes to the compilation and staging of performance programs, inviting international artists and seeking new sponsorships.
In addition to Chuong Vu, the concert also featured violinist Sara Dragan and the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra under the baton of world- famous Turkish conductor Orhan Şallıel.
Sara Dragan is 22 years old, a multi-award winner. She began playing the violin at the age of 7, emerging as one of the most outstanding violinists of her generation with thousands of concerts as a soloist. This talented artist currently plays the precious antique Italian violin Nicola Amati (1666), entrusted by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins (London & New York) to accompany her on stage.
The Tchaikovsky Night features works by Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), a composer representing the Russian Romantic school. All three works performed bear the outstanding characteristics of Tchaikovsky's style, in general, the talent of orchestration, harmony in compositional techniques and spiritual depth in musical art.
It is the Nutcracker Overture, op. 71 - the opening music for the ballet of the same name, one of the works that made Tchaikovsky's name in the field of ballet music.
The Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 is the only violin concerto composed by Tchaikovsky in 1878. It is one of the most famous violin concertos in the world for its sweet beauty and intense expressiveness.
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64 is where Tchaikovsky reveals his complex and extremely contradictory thoughts, delving into every corner of his inner emotions.
It can be said that this is a music night not to be missed by classical music fans.
Chuong Vu and Bui Ha Mien with the song "The Chairman's Waltz" (film Memoirs of a Geisha ):
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