Meritorious Artist To Nga won the gold medal at the 2025 National Open Music Festival

Y Garia Ênuôl đoạt huy chương vàng tại Liên hoan Âm nhạc toàn quốc mở rộng 2025 - Ảnh 1. — Major General, musician Nguyen Duc Trinh - Chairman of the Vietnam Musicians Association, spoke at the closing ceremony and award ceremony of the 2025 National Open Music Festival

The 2025 National Music Festival with the theme of Music Convergence and Spread , took place from October 29 to November 2, organized by the Vietnam Musicians Association in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports; Ho Chi Minh City Radio and Television Station; Ho Chi Minh City Music Association. In the closing ceremony, the Vietnam Musicians Association in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports and the Chinese Cultural Center in Hanoi organized the Vietnam - China Friendship Symphony Concert .

Attending the program were Mr. Tran Thanh Lam - Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department; Associate Professor, Doctor, musician Do Hong Quan - President of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Arts Associations ; Dr. Tran Thi Phuong Lan - Head of the Department of Culture and Arts, Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department; Major General, musician Nguyen Duc Trinh - President of the Vietnam Musicians Association; Ms. Dinh Thi Thanh Thuy - Deputy Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; People's Artist Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports; Mr. Truong Duc Son - Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Hanoi and professors and musicians at the Guangxi Academy of Arts (China).

Y Garia Ênuôl đoạt huy chương vàng tại Liên hoan Âm nhạc toàn quốc mở rộng 2025 - Ảnh 2. — People's Artist Thanh Thuy speaks at the closing ceremony of the 2025 National Open Music Festival

People's Artist Thanh Thuy - Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City said that the 2025 National Open Music Festival was held for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, taking place in the context of the country celebrating many important political events. Ho Chi Minh City has just successfully organized the first Congress of the City Party Committee, term 2025-2030. On October 31, UNESCO honored Ho Chi Minh City as a Creative City in the field of cinema, the first cinema city in Southeast Asia.

"The city with its expanded administrative space, carrying within it a strong aspiration for the development vision of a megacity, a multi-faceted center of the country, is ready to welcome, expand cooperation and cultural exchange with domestic and foreign friends, aiming for sustainable development goals. As a global creative city of UNESCO, Ho Chi Minh City, with its spirit of integration, creativity and sustainable development, will be an inspiring destination in the region, with the cultural identity of a young city, rich in potential and aspiration to reach a development goal in the future," said the Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City.

Meritorious Artist To Nga, Dieu Thao and many singers won gold medals

The 2025 National Music Festival includes two areas: Music Works Festival, Vietnamese Voice Festival and Instrumental Solos (performance festival). There are over 600 musicians and artists participating in the festival from 38 branches in provinces and cities across the country.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the festival, musician Nguyen Duc Trinh - Chairman of the Vietnam Musicians Association shared: “The festival was a great success, gathering more than 600 artists and musicians. The event really exploded at the Army Theater and today continues to be spread through 'expansion' activities, strongly affirming the professionalism and vitality of Vietnamese music.”

Chairman of the festival's Art Council, People's Artist - Musician Nguyen Quang Vinh commented: "This year's festival has nearly 200 products, including songs and musical works with a harmonious combination between member musicians and singers, artists from branches, performing art units, and art training facilities across the country. Through 7 performances, a vivid and diverse artistic picture has been created."

He commented that the 2025 festival has featured many current music products, promptly responding to important political events. “It must be admitted that there are very high-quality products, bold breakthroughs in changing familiar appearances to create new pictures, with new emotions in music. However, there are still propaganda pictures in which the music sometimes has reluctant movements to serve the lyrics. The organizing committee will choose to award prizes to representative and slightly better works. We acknowledge and respect the work and creativity of musicians, singers and artists who have brought valuable music products to the festival," musician Nguyen Quang Vinh acknowledged.

Y Garia Ênuôl đoạt huy chương vàng tại Liên hoan Âm nhạc toàn quốc mở rộng 2025 - Ảnh 3. — Musicians won A prizes at the 2025 National Open Music Festival

At the closing ceremony, the organizing committee awarded 15 A prizes and 41 B prizes to musical works participating in the festival; 14 gold medals and 18 silver medals to performances by artists, singers and ensembles.

The A Prize at the 2025 National Open Music Festival was awarded to musician Bui Ngoc Lam ( The City I Love ); Ha Phuong Chinh ( Kite Dream ); Nguyen Hai Nam ( The Fatherland is Grateful to Mother ); Duong Ha ( The Green Color of Soldier's Shirt ); Hua Son Ha ( The Season of Flowers ); Duc Phuc ( El Nino, La Nina ); Tuan Phuong ( Autumn ); Nguyen Thuy Vy ( Sending to the South ); Pham Hong Hiep ( North-South Promise ); Tran Bach Ngan ( The Road of Youth )...

Y Garia Ênuôl đoạt huy chương vàng tại Liên hoan Âm nhạc toàn quốc mở rộng 2025 - Ảnh 4. — Artists received gold medals at the festival (singer Tung Duong and some artists were not present to attend the closing night)

NSƯT Tố Nga đoạt huy chương vàng Liên hoan Âm nhạc toàn quốc mở rộng 2025 - Ảnh 1. — Meritorious Artist To Nga Tiet with the performance *Octagonal Human Heart*

Gold medals in the 2025 National Open Music Festival were awarded to singers and artists: Dieu Thao ( Sending to the South ); Nguyen Thi Ngoc Ha ( Bong Lai ); Meritorious Artist To Nga ( Bacterial Heart ); Y Garia Enuol ( Soundingly vast Dak Lak plateau ); Tran Hoang Oanh (Cung zither, solo moon lute); Tung Duong ( Aspiration to reach out ); Duong Duc ( Lung Lo - Epic border song ); Nguyen Cong Minh ( Remembering the river ); Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy ( Undercurrents ), Tran Hong Nhung ( Thank you, Mom ), Nguyen Hoang Duyen ( Ban Me love story ); Minh Hieu ( If Uncle Ho comes back on Nha Rong wharf )...