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Jazzercise: Pianist Nguyen Tuan Nam will perform in concert with a Swedish trio to be held at the Ha Noi Opera House tomorrow. — File Photo |
HA NOI — Pianist Nguyen Tuan Nam will perform a concert with a Swedish trio to be held at the Ha Noi Opera House tomorrow in what will be the first live performance given by the 25-year-old musician. Nam will be accompanied by Per Nilsson on guitar, Johnny Aman on bass and Olle Dernevik on the drums. They will be joined by Hakan Rydin, Nam's teacher at Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden, and saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac, one of Viet Nam's leading jazz musicians.
In the first part of the show, they will perform the classic jazz songs of Bill Evans, Keith Jarret, Duke Ellington and Bruno Martino.
The audience will then be able to enjoy contemporary songs such as A Day in Paris and Feel Like Home by Nam, Vietnamese Folk Song by Rydin, Lappen by Nilsson and Away by Dac.
Nam is the only student of Viet Nam's National Academy of Music to have been granted a full scholarship to both the Sydney International Academy of Music and the Malmo Academy of Music and he is now the youngest lecturer of Accordion, Jazz and Guitar at the National Academy.
His dream is to bring jazz closer to Vietnamese people.
"I want Vietnamese audiences to have more of a chance to enjoy and understand jazz and hopefully one day, the world will know Vietnamese jazz, which has its own unique characteristics," he says.
"While classical music requires performers to comply with the composer's creation, jazz is known as a kind of sudden inspiration," says Associate Professor Luu Quang Minh.
Tickets are on sale at the Ha Noi Opera House and Nam and the trio will perform together with saxophonist Dac once again at a live show in HCM City next Wednesday. — VNS