The first Piano Festival in Vietnam

With the purpose of setting up a professional art and cultural activity, as well as celebrating its 55th anniversary, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music hosts the first Piano Festival from October 18th to 23th, 2011.

With the purpose of setting up a professional art and cultural activity, as well as celebrating its 55th anniversary, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music hosts the first Piano Festival from October 18th to 23th, 2011. Many music performances, academic lectures and conferences on piano will be presented to the audience.

On Oct 18th, a conference on the history of piano art presided by professional pianist Vo Bao Lac Nhan is about to start the event. Another conference about Franz Liszt led by the pianist, conductor Van Hung Cuong (from Shenandoah University, USA) on the occasion of this great composer’s 200th birthday is the next great activity to be expected. Afterward, Piano Masterclasses, a class of piano performance for excellent piano students will be held under instruction of two professionals from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Boris Kraljevic and Rena Cheung Phua on Oct 20th.

Piano concerts with participation of the best students from Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music and famous artists from Vietnam National Academy of Music, Hue Academy of Music, as well as from foreign countries such as USA, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Korea is taking place for three consecutive nights from Oct 21th to 23th.

In addition, an exhibition displaying activities of the conservatory over the past 55 years is expected. The tickets are sold directly at Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory, 112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.

Ticket price for Oct21th: 300,000 – 350,000VND - Oct22nd, 23rd: 200,000 – 250,000VND

Renamed in 1981, after being known as Sai Gon National Music School since its establishment in 1956, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music, is one of the two leading centers of music training in Vietnam.


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