A performance program of contemporary music with Vietnamese cultural influences will take place at HCMC Conservatory of Music on January 7.
The program includes a recital of new Australian and American compositions written for guitar and percussion, inspired by Vietnamese music culture.
Traditional folk songs, melodic and rhythmic idioms from various regions of Vietnam, especially the Highlands, are brought to life in harmony with music of the twenty-first century. Each composition displays the explorations of musical and technical possibilities for the guitar.
The program supported by the Australian National University and the HCMC Conservatory of Music is an Australian-American collaboration between Le-Tuyen Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian guitarist, and Salil Sachdev, who chairs the music department at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts.
Le-Tuyen is also a music specialist of the Creative Arts Council of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, Australia. He is the inventor of the staccato-harmonic duotone, a new guitar technique which involves the simultaneous sounding of two tones on one guitar string.
Meanwhile, Salil Sachdev has composed music for a variety of media including the orchestra, percussion, piano, theater, voice, and electronic music.
