- “From Home to the World” Livestream Home concert
Như các tổ chức hoạt động trong lĩnh vực biểu diễn khác trên thế giới, Nhóm nhạc đương đại Hà Nội phải hủy toàn bộ những hoạt động biểu diễn trong thời gian tới. Chúng tôi sẽ trở lại sau khi dịch Corona được đẩy lùi và khi khán giả có thể an tâm đến với những buổi hòa nhạc. Dẫu vậy, từ Việt Nam, chúng tôi rất vui sướng tham gia kênh này để phát trực tiếp những trích đoạn từ những buổi hòa nhạc của chúng tôi. Những tác phẩm mang chủ đề “ Mang tình yêu từ nhà ra thế giới”———–Facebook Livestream Hanoi time: 20h Thứ sáu 24/04/2020 ————–As with performing arts organizations around the world, the Hanoi New Music Ensemble has cancelled its upcoming activities. We will return once the corona virus is under control and when everyone can resume attending concerts safely. However, from Vietnam, we are so happy to join this channel to live stream some of the excerpts from our previous concerts. The music is about love from “From Home to the World”.———– Facebook live stream Hanoi time: 8:00PM Friday April 24————-INFORMATION
HANOI NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE LIVE STREAM HOME CONCERT
20H FRIDAY 24/04/2020
SUPPORTED BY GOETHE INSTITUTE
Giới thiệu tác phẩm / Introduction of three pieces.
- Hoàng Cương: “Nhớ Quê” song tấu violin và piano. Tác phẩm chứa đựng tình cảm hướng đến quê hương đất nước. A piece of love toward homeland. Pham Truong Son, violin. Pham Quynh Trang, piano
- Vũ Nhật Tân: Trích đoạn song tấu giữa Soprano và violin trong tác phẩm “Ngũ Hành” của nhạc sỹ Vũ Nhật Tân. Tác phẩm dựa trên thuyết Ngũ Hành, những nguyên tố tương tác tạo nên thế giới. Excerpt of a duo for soprano and violin in “Five elements” composed by Vu Nhat Tan. The music is about philosophy of five elements that from the world. Tran Thu Thuy, soprano. Pham Quynh Trang, piano
- Huy Du: “Miền Nam Quê Hương Ta Ơi”. Tác phẩm cho violin và piano về chủ đề thương nhớ quê hương. Lúc đó tác giả phải sống xa quê do đất nước chia cắt do chiến tranh. Huy Du: “My beloved southern homeland”. Expressing composer’s love toward his homeland in the south during the war.
Pham Truong Son, violin. Pham Quynh Trang, piano
- Stay home but stay connected
Như các tổ chức hoạt động trong lĩnh vực biểu diễn khác trên thế giới, Nhóm nhạc đương đại Hà Nội phải hủy toàn bộ những hoạt động biểu diễn trong thời gian tới. Chúng tôi sẽ trở lại sau khi dịch Corona được đẩy lùi và khi khán giả có thể an tâm đến với những buổi hòa nhạc. Dẫu vậy, sau năm năm hoạt động, đây là thời điểm thích hợp để chúng tôi có thể lên kế hoạch cho những dự định xa hơn. Chúng tôi muốn qua đây gửi lời cảm ơn tới những khán giả tuyệt vời, luôn tạo nên những buổi hòa nhạc kín chỗ, đây thật sự là niềm tự hào với sự nghiệp của chúng tôi nhằm tôn vinh âm nhạc đương đại Việt Nam. Khi thời điểm cho phép, Nhóm đương đại hà Nội sẽ trở lại thật mạnh mẽ và đầy cống hiến.
As with performing arts organizations around the world, the Hanoi New Music Ensemble has cancelled its upcoming activities. We will return once the corona virus is under control and when everyone can resume attending concerts safely. However, as we now celebrate our fifth season, these cancellations have given us the time to discuss important long range plans. The ensemble wants to thank the extraordinary Hanoi public that always packs our concerts, a true honor for us as musicians promoting the music of Vietnamese composers. When the time is right, the Hanoi New Music Ensemble will emerge from this global pause stronger and more dedicated than ever to the cause of new music!
- Ở nhà chờ thời / Stay home but stay in touch
Như các tổ chức hoạt động trong lĩnh vực biểu diễn khác trên thế giới, Nhóm nhạc đương đại Hà Nội phải hủy toàn bộ những hoạt động biểu diễn trong thời gian tới. Chúng tôi sẽ trở lại sau khi dịch Corona được đẩy lùi và khi khán giả có thể an tâm đến với những buổi hòa nhạc. Dẫu vậy, sau năm năm hoạt động, đây là thời điểm thích hợp để chúng tôi có thể lên kế hoạch cho những dự định xa hơn. Chúng tôi muốn qua đây gửi lời cảm ơn tới những khán giả tuyệt vời, luôn tạo nên những buổi hòa nhạc kín chỗ, đây thật sự là niềm tự hào với sự nghiệp của chúng tôi trong sự nghiệp tôn vinh âm nhạc đương đại Việt Nam. Khi thời điểm cho phép, Nhóm đương đại hà Nội sẽ trở lại thật mạnh mẽ và đầy cống hiến.
As with performing arts organizations around the world, the Hanoi New Music Ensemble has cancelled its upcoming activities. We will return once the corona virus is under control and when everyone can resume attending concerts safely. However, as we now celebrate our fifth season, these cancellations have given us the time to discuss important long range plans. The ensemble wants to thank the extraordinary Hanoi public that always packs our concerts, a true honor for us as musicians promoting the music of Vietnamese composers. When the time is right, the Hanoi New Music Ensemble will emerge from this global pause stronger and more dedicated than ever to the cause of new music!
- 1,000 Dragons Rising: The Path of the Ancestors Triumph for the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble
Sound Travels with Jeff von der Schmidt
The world premiere of Kim Thủy Hỏa by Vũ Nhật Tân. ”Bác Jeff!” breathlessly whispered one of my Vietnamese colleagues, hurriedly finding me back stage as we were all getting ready to perform. “We must wait to start the concert. We have over 1,000 people trying to find seats, more than the auditorium can handle. Uncle Jeff this never ever happen before!”
In the Path of the Ancestors indeed proved to be the right title at the right moment for the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble. Post concert noise and chatter continues to flood the city’s cultural discussions while both Vietnamese national and international television networks can’t seem to get enough of me, resulting in very good media exposure for a new music group in its fourth season.
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- The 10th Anniversary of the Manila Composers Lab in The Phillipines
Thoughts about my recent visit to the 10th Anniversary of the Manila Composers Lab in the Phillipines with Luong Hue Trinh!
The triumphant members of the 10th Manila Composers Lab. “I feel like I’ve just visited the Bayreuth of the Phillipines,” I said to my gracious host, composer and ethnomusicologist Ramón Pagayon Santos. He’d invited us over for an expansive morning and afternoon conversation including lunch the day after the final concert of the 10th anniversary of the Manila Composers Lab.
One critical aspect of my 2019 residency with the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble are my visits to the new music neighbors of Việt Nam. Before arriving in my second home here in Hà Nội, I’ve made fresh contacts with new friends in Singapore and met composers in Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand. Before heading home to California, I will go to Japan in late April, after the conclusion of Hà Nội’s fourth season, to follow-up with many friends in the Japanese new music world.
I am already convinced…
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- On the Path of the Ancestors with the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble
National treasures of Việt Nam, Thanh Hoài and Xuân Hoạch. On the Path of the Ancestors is my next concert with the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble. My friends here always find wonderful and poetic titles for our programs, they can’t do otherwise. In a long career devoted to new music, conducting over forty world premieres, numerous recording sessions, securing commissions, animating second performances, planning tours and collaborations, this concert at 20h00 in the Grand Hall of the Việt Nam National Conservatory of Music on Friday March 22, 2019 looms as a milestone.
Three generations of composers are coming together and my Hà Nội New Music Ensemble will be joined by a cast of national treasures, whiz-bang technology, guests from the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, the light bearing Ancient Ensemble of Tonkin/Đông Kinh Cổ Nhạc led by Đàm Quang Minh.
Cue national and international television broadcast by the major…
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- “What’s Next?” in Asian Creative Music
Composer Kee Yong Chong introduces us to delicious Singapore with lunch at the Albert Hawker Center: (L to R) Char Kway Teow, savory Carrot Cake and Laksa One of the joys of travel is meeting new people, especially when we share friends in common. Before arriving in Vietnam to begin our 2019 concerts with the Hanoi New Music Ensemble, my husband Jeff and I decided to visit Singapore and Thailand to meet some of their composers and contemporary music leaders. I am pleased to report that creativity in Asian contemporary music is thriving and exciting.
With introductions from our Vietnamese colleagues, Facebook and emails facilitated quick connections. Luckily musicians love to eat, so our conversations also included local food as well as introductions to music and cultural institutions. Our trip began in Singapore, a city of the future with a thriving arts scene.
Pictured above is composer Kee Yong Chong…
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- A New Generation: From Hamburg to Hà Nội with Lương Huệ Trinh
Our first meeting in 2017 at Public Coffee in the Neustadt District of Hamburg. Nothing is random. In June of 2017, on our way to take in the conclusion of the opening season of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg with Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder conducted by our friend of over forty years, Kent Nagano, I noticed a Facebook post of a young Vietnamese student who was part of a team contributing a technology component to a Hamburg Staatsoper production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Æneas.
That got my attention for all types of reasons!
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- The 25th Anniversary of the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble in México City
Enjoy this blog posts about my colleagues the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble in Mexico City, who have already performed Nguyen Thien Dao and Vu Nhat Tan, as well as regular tours to Japan and Indonesia!
Tambuco celebrates 25 years, with guest pianist Ana Gabriela Fernández. “The spirit of percussion opens everything, even what was, so to speak, completely closed.” – John Cage
Ricardo Gallardo and I have been partners in new music projects for a long time. We got started because of an introduction by American icon William Kraft, have received four Grammy nominations for our collaborative CD recordings, Southwest Chamber Music toured México multiple times, at UNAM and in Guadalajara, Tambuco has come to Los Angeles multiple times, to both Herbert Zipper Hall at the Colburn School and REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall.
We’ve even tracked each other down in Japan!
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- “The Ancient is New & The New is Ancient” at L’espace in Hà Nội
A silhouette of my friend Hương Lan in Huế. “I have been trying not to view Japan as an absolute but as a duality, otherwise the tradition does not come alive but remains an unavoidable antique.”
In 1989 Toru Takemitsu wrote an essential article, Sound of East, Sound of West. For me, his perspective gives a serious reader a compass of magnetic certainty for navigating the blending soundscapes of our musical world. And like any map locating an unknown destination, my dog eared copy of this East Meets West article, a transcription of a lecture Takemitsu delivered at Columbia University in New York City, has been read and re-read more times than I can count.
On Saturday night December 1st, 2018 at 20h00, the Institut-Français Hà Nội sponsors the ongoing collaboration of the Hà Nội New Music Ensemble and the Đông Kinh Cở Nhạc/Ancient Ensemble of Tonkin at…
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HANOI NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE 