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A talent blooms: Pianist Tran Yen Nhi will perform with the HCM City orchestra at the annual Autumn Melody concert this week. — VNS Photo Duc Ngoc |
HCM CITY — The HCM City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra's annual Autumn Melody concert this week will feature veteran and young Vietnamese talents from home and abroad.
On Wednesday the first of two shows will open with a performance by two young pianists, Le Thanh Thao and Le Thu Quynh, who are studying in the US and Poland. It will mark the sisters' debut in Viet Nam.
Thao will play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 (Movement I. Allegro moderate) while Quynh will perform Chopin's Fantasy on a Polish theme in A-major.
Young HBSO violinist Ho Dang Hoi will then play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D-major (Movement I and II).
All three will perform with the HBSO under the baton of Nguyen Anh Son.
The show will continue with the ballets Motion and The Dream choreographed respectively by Nguyen Phuc Hung and Vu Ngoc Khai, who have returned after training in the Netherlands.
The performances will feature Dam Duc Nhuan Dinh Thi Diem Trang, Ta Thuy Chi. and Phi Diep, who will also perform in Pas de deux La Bayadere (The Temple Dancer) by Natalia Makarova and Pas de deux Diana and Actaeon by Petipa.
The second show, on Thursday, will see renowned violinist Bui Cong Duy perform the Concerto Grosso for Violin, Piano, Percussion and String Orchestra composed by Nguyen Manh Duy Linh, who has an MA in composition from Russia's Magnitogorsk State Conservatory.
The HCM City Conservatory's 14-year-old Tran Yen Nhi will play Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto No 3 "Youth" in D-major (Movement I and II).
Dang Phu Vinh, a postgraduate music student at the West Virginia State University in the US, will perform Haydn's Oboe Concert in C – major (Movement I and II).
Meritorious artist Tran Vuong Thach will conduct the orchestra.
Chorus master Tran Nhat Minh, a graduate of Russia's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, will conduct operas by Puccini, Verdi, and Delibes which will be sung by Korean soprano Cho Hae Ryong and Vietnamese soprano Vo Thuy Ngoc Tuyen and tenor Pham Trang.
The shows will open at 8pm on August 18 and 19 at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1.
Tickets costing VND200,000-500,000 are available at the theatre. — VNS