VietNamNet Bridge – German conductor Jonas Alber makes a long-awaited return for the second concert of the ‘Brahms Cycle’ project at 8 p.m. on September 13 and 14 at Hanoi Opera House.

Conductor Jonas Alber

The concert will feature the many talents of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) and pianist Dao Trong Tuyen. The gala will include Piano Concerto no.2 and Concerto for piano by Brahms.

Alber studied violin and conducting in Freiburg and Vienna before the Herbert von Karajan Foundation awarded him a scholarship in 1995. He was General Music Director at the State Theater Braunschweig by 1998, at the time Germany’s youngest conductor in this position and one which he held until 2007.

In January 2010, the German Year in Vietnam opened with a brilliant performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony by the VNSO and the Berlin Philharmonic Choir under Alber’s direction. After another highly successful concert in 2011, when Alber and the VNSO jointly presented Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, we are now more than pleased to once again welcome Alber to Hanoi.

Tuyen began studying piano in 1981 at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, graduating with honors under the supervision of Professor Tran Thu Ha. In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Canadian Ministry of Education for his master’s thesis in piano performance at Laval University in Quebec, graduating Cum Laude in 2001.

In 2004 Tuyen returned to the University of Montreal under Dang Thai Son and received his doctorate there in 2007. Tuyen currently teaches piano at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Tickets are available from August 30 at the Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street and at Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street. Admission is from VND200,000 to VND500,000 with students getting in for VND100,000.

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