Vietnamese and Japanese musicians will perform many kinds of music from Western Classical music to Vietnamese or Japanese popular songs…at the Vietnam Japan Friendship Concert in Hanoi on August 20.


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Program

Haydn – Oboe Concerto, 1st movement
“A Time for us”, Love Theme from “Romeo and Juliet”
The Town with a Ocean view (from Ghibli)
Hanoi’s Autumn
Etc…

About the artists

Hoang Manh Lam (Oboe)

Hoang Manh Lam has started studying oboe at Vietnam National Academy of Music under the direction of Doctor Ngo Phuong Dong. He got Master Degree in 2014. 

During studying time, he enthusiatically rehearsed and performed in chamber groups and joined several domestic and foreign orchestras: joined rehearsing and performing in Nagoya (Japan) in 2004, joining Cisma Symphony Orchestra (canton international summer music academy in China) in 2005 and 2006; the master class in Malmo (Sweden) with the Hanoi students quintet by professon Asger Svendsen in 2007. 

In 2011 he got a scholarship to study at the Temple University-Philadelphia in the USA, following instructions of professor Peter Smith,a Philadelphia Orchestra member. Now he is principal oboe player at the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.

Phung Hoai Thu (Viola)

Thu was born in 1995. She started playing the violin when she was 5 years old, supervised by Mr. Tran Manh Hung. 

After that she had Dr. Bui Cong Duy as her next mentor. Along with her main course of violin she also practices viola as her second instrument. She participated in various mastering courses that are taught by many professors. 

She attended two music summer camps in Norway in 2013 and 2014. In 2013 and 2014, she practiced and performed with the Asian Youth Orchestra in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, China, Thailand and Singapore. 

In 2014 she was admitted to the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia and has been studying at this music institution since then.

Izuo Risa (Piano)

Izuo Risa was born in 1985 in Osaka. When she was 6 years old, she started to learn playing piano. When she was 18 years old, she started to learn vocal. She learned to play the piano and vocal at Osaka University of Arts. 

After graduation, she worked at music school for 7 years as a piano and vocal teacher. After that she came to Vietnam and currently she is teaching to play the piano and vocal to teachers and kids at the kindergarten in Hanoi.

Sakai Haruka (Piano)


Sakai Haruka started Jazz music self-taught at the age of 10. As her passion grows she went to SENZOKU College of Music to receive formal training in Jazz. In SENZOKU she met much respected Jazz pianist/teacher Yuki Arimasa. After graduation she performed Jazz Piano in Tokyo for 3 years. She then started writing songs. 

Haruka now teaches music for teachers in Hanoi. Haruka's latest album is “KI O KU”. This is the 2nd project of Haruka and Japanese young musician which started in 2013.

Tickets

Price: Adult 150,000vnd, Student 80,000vnd (Including soft drink)
Ticket Office: V-Artroom (0199391775 Mac Thao), Star Lotus (58 To Hien Thanh St. Hai Ba Trung District.), 45 Hao Nam (0946628558 Lam, Please call before coming)

Time: August 20 

V-Artroom, 3F IPH-Indochina Plaza, 241 Xuan Thuy St, Cau Giay District, Hanoi