VietNamNet Bridge – After 20 years living in the US, music lecturer of MECA in Houston, Texas, Nguyen Quang Binh will have a solo show in HCM City on June 18.

The show will be held at We night club. This is not only a guitar solo show but a workshop with the topic “Music Appreciation”, where the audiences can question the artist about the music works he plays or any issue related to music in the show.

Binh, a lecturer of classic guitar at the Multi-Cultural Education and Counseling through the Arts School (MECA), has organized around 30 similar workshops in the US.

“The workshop is an event for lecturers and students, but I want to make it the place where artists and the audiences can exchange about music. Sometimes, listeners participate in the process to make music works,” Binh said.

He said that in the last ten years, when the Pseudo-Mordernism trend appeared, many art works are only perfect with the participation of the audiences, especially in performance art. This art methodology has been used popularly in installation, visual and performance art.

In his upcoming workshop in HCM City, Binh will introduce other music concepts like minimalism, non-traditional and non-conventional styles. He hoped that the workshop will attract young artists and music students.

In the US, Binh’s workshops were held in specialized rooms where he did not have to use amplifiers. “My show in Vietnam will take place at a night club, so I will have to use amplifiers. In addition, this is a new form of show in Vietnam, so if the audiences are not enthusiastic to question, I will play guitar,” he said.

The artist said he was happy that his friends in Vietnam have helped him organize this show. Binh took a group of foreign artists to Vietnam in 2007 to perform at Hanoi’s Tuoi Tre Theatre.

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