VietNam Life Style: Trang Trinh

Monday, February 21, 2011

Piano's journal at Opera House offers glimpse into life

Trang Trinh

Young pianist Trang Trinh will perform her “The Piano's journal” show featuring Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart and other famous composers in Hanoi this Wednesday and Ho Chi Minh City this April.

The show in Hanoi’s opera house at 8pm at 1 Trang Tien Street is designed to display passions in a person’s life cycle from innocence of a child to pain in love and sadness and wisdom in separation, expressed in classical and romantic styles.

Song without word (Mendelsshon), Salut d’amour (Edgar) and the complete three-chapter Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) will take audience a tour around various human emotions.

Born in 1986 in Vinh Phuc Province, Trang Trinh has just graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in the UK.

She has been invited to work for the London-based All Souls Orchestra, and she has had various performance tours in Italy, Austria, Hungary and Ireland.

In 2007, she won the Francis Simmer Prize for playing solo piano, and the Lilian Davis Prize for her performance of Beethoven‘s Sonatas.

One year later, she was awarded the Gretta GM Parkinson Prize for her outstanding academic records.

Tickets are available at the Opera House at VND300,000, VND500,000 and VND1 million.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Piano show by Trang Trinh

New Year concert with National Symphony Orchestra

Pianist Trang Trinh - Photo: The pianist

Pianist Trang Trinh, a graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in the U.K., will have a performance called “Diary of Piano” at the Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street at 8 p.m. on February 23.

The show is about the ups and downs in life from innocence to pain and wisdom.

Born in Vinh Phuc Province, the pianist was invited to work for the London-based All Souls Orchestra, and she has had various performance tours in Italy, Austria, Hungary and Ireland.

In 2007, she won the Francis Simmer Prize for playing solo piano, and the Lilian Davis Prize for her performance of Beethoven‘s Sonatas.

One year later, she was awarded the Gretta GM Parkinson Prize for her outstanding academic records.

She will perform the show in HCMC early April.

Tickets are available at the Opera House at VND300,000, VND500,000 and VND1 million.

*Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Tetsuji Honna featuring piano soloist Isadora Kim will play at Hanoi Opera House February 18 and 19.

Pieces to be played include Overture from Opera “Russlan and Ludmilla” by M.Glinka and Piano Concerto No.2 by S.Rachmaninov.

The painting “Ascending Dragon” by Do Hong Quan depicting Hanoi, past and present, will be on display during the concert. The event will also include a famous waltz and polka by Johann Strauss II and the waltz, Gold and Silver, by Austrian musician Franz Lehar.

Ethnic percussionists will perform with the orchestra to add a traditional Vietnamese flavor to the European classics.

Tickets are available at the Opera House for VND450, 000, VND350,000, VND250, 000, and VND150,000 and discounted 50% for students.

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