Classical and modern jazz pianist Francesco Tristano, from Luxembourg, will perform at the Hanoi Opera House on June 25 to celebrate the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg’s birthday and the country’s National Day.



This will be the second time pianist Tristano has performed in Vietnam. In 2011, he performed famous pieces by Johan Sebastian Bach in Hanoi and held an exchange with students at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.  

Tristano is the founder of the chamber ensemble, The New Bach Players, with whom he performs as conductor. The ensemble consciously breaks with convention, using a Steinway grand piano and old, vibrato-less bows on contemporary string instruments.

He studied at the Juilliard School in New York, which is associated with the Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts, and completed a master class with Rosalyn Tureck, a famous American pianist and harpsichordist particularly associated with the music of Bach.

Tristano continued his studies at music academies in Brussels, Riga, Paris, Luxembourg and Barcelona, eventually winning first prize at the 2004 international piano competition for contemporary music in Orleans, France.

He has released 12 albums, including the 2007 Not for Piano, which presents his own compositions as well as versions of electronic classics played on piano. Idiosynkrasia, his third album, was released to critical acclaim in 2010.

His first musical project, entitled bachCage, produced by Moritz von Oswald, was released on Deutsche Grammophon in March 2011.

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