VietNamNet Bridge – A concert titled “Canada and Viet Nam in Harmony” featuring artists from the two countries will take place on Thursday.

Playing in tune: Violinist Veronique Mathieu from Canada will join leading artists from the Viet Nam National Academy of Music in a concert on Thursday. — Photo courtesy of Canadian Embassy

Violinist Veronique Mathieu, an avid contemporary music performer from Canada, and leading artists from the Viet Nam National Academy of Music, including pianist Pham Quynh Trang, violator Nguyen Thu Binh and the Aurora quartet of Nguyen Cong Thang, Nguyen My Huong, Nguyen Thu Binh and Nguyen Hong Anh will mark the first joint performance in Viet Nam.

Mathieu will first play solo A. Prevost’s Improvisation and N. Milstein’s Paganinian and then join Vietnamese artists in C. Hatzis’s Coming to and G. Wunsch’s Partita Giocoso.

Mathieu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, South Africa, South America and the United States. She has won awards at the 2012 Eckhardt-Gramatté Contemporary Music Competition and the 2010 Krakow International Contemporary Music Competition and is a three-time winner of the Canada Council Bank of Instruments Competition.

Entry tickets for the concert range from VND200,000 to VND500,000 (US$10-25). The concert will be held at the Viet Nam National Academy of Music, 77 Hao Nam Street, Ha Noi.

VNS