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Hello again: Three Norwegian wind instrumentalists, Terje Grondahl, Synnrve Li (middle) and Tomod Asgard, will perform with the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera today. — VNS Photo Duc Ngoc |
HCM CITY — Norwegian conductor Truls Sanaker and his colleagues will stage a concert at the HCM City Opera House this week, accompanied by the city's Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO).
The event will feature trumpeter Tomod Asgard, flutist Synnre Li and trombonist Terje Grondahl performing compositions by English composer Vaughan William.
They will perform Sea Songs and English Folk Song Suite supported by young artists from the city orchestra.
The concert will continue with a solo performance by Asgard playing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in Es-dur.
Having performed in HCM City and Ha Noi several times in recent years, all the artists are comfortable playing with local musicians.
Li, 30, graduated from the Norwegian State Academy of Music and Coservatorie National Superieur de Music et de Dance de Paris.
Her older colleagues, Asgard and Grondahl, are members of the Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
They have worked and played with prestigious symphony orchestras in Norway.
The evening will include famous works by Paganini and Mozart.
Vietnamese violinist Ho Dang Hoi will perform Paganini's Variations on a theme from Rossini's Moses for Violin and Orchestra.
Mozart's Symphony No31 Paris in D major will be performed by the HBSO's Youth Orchestra under the baton of veteran conductor Tran Vuong Thach.
One of the city's young talents, violinist Hoi graduated from the city's Music Conservatory in 2002. He performed at the Texas Music Festival in the USA in 2008. He is now with the HBSO.
Sanaker heads the Transposition Project, a music exchange programme launched by the Norwegian Festival Music ULTIMA, which aims to bring Norwegian and Vietnamese musicians closer.
The ULTIMA foundation will also sponsor an annual international festival of contemporary music and other related events of high artistic quality.
Sanaker performed as a trumpeter in the Royal Norwegian Navy Band in 1984. Later, he improved his conducting at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He said he loves working with Vietnamese colleagues, who are creative and active in music.
The show will open at 8pm tonight, at the Opera House on Lam Son Square in District 1.
Tickets, ranging from VND100,000 (US$ 5.5) to VND200,000 ($11), are available at the theatre. — VNS