VietNamNet Bridge – American guitarist Rene Izquierdo and Vietnamese guitarist Thai Minh will have performances in Hanoi on September 30 and Ho Chi Minh City on October 1.

Vietnam will be part of Izquierdo’s Asia tour with other destinations including Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong.

In Vietnam he will play classical pieces written by Baroque J.S. Bach, Domenico Scalartti, Napoleon Coste and Claude Debussy and modern pieces composed by Joaquin Rodrigo, Hector VillaLobos and Francisco Tarrega.

In particular, the American guitarist will bring to Vietnamese audiences some Cuban folk songs.

Rene Izquierdo, a native from Cuba, graduated from the Guillermo Tomas, Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of Art in Havana. In the United States, he earned a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma degree from the Yale University School of Music.

Izquierdo has appeared as a guest soloist and in chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Cuba and Europe. He has staged with many prestigious guitarists including Eliot Fisk, Benjamin Verdery and Jorge Morel, as well as renowned flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, David Jolley and Paquito d’Rivera.

He is a recipient of numerous awards, and among others the winner of the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition, Extremadura International Guitar Competition, Schadt String Competition, and Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition.

Izquierdo is currently a professor of classical guitar at the Wisconsin State University in Milwaukee and an active solo performer and chamber musician.

Source: VOV