CIA - Accordions Worldwide
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52<br />
News from Vietnam…<br />
Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM)<br />
President: Prof. Dr. Luu Quang Minh (Deputy Rector)<br />
Mailing Contact: Mr. Nguyen Tai Hung, M.A.<br />
VNAM General Secretary<br />
Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM)<br />
77 Hao Nam, Hanoi, VIETNAM<br />
Telephone: (844) 385 11922 Fax: (844) 38513545<br />
Mobile: (844) 091 321 0897<br />
E-mail: taihungvn@yahoo.com or lminhttbd@yahoo.com<br />
At the beginning of 20 th Century, together with other<br />
European Musical Instruments, the French and<br />
western missionaries introduced the accordion to<br />
Vietnam in three different ways like catholic<br />
propaganda, military musical ensembles and multimedia<br />
(Films, Discs and Radio). Especially, popular<br />
pieces were pieces for orchestra music and arranged<br />
for accordion by French accordionists Yvette Horner.<br />
In 1956, Vietnam Music School (Hanoi National<br />
Conservatory) was founded in Hanoi as a signal of<br />
forming a tendency of training academic music. In<br />
2008, the name was changed to the Vietnam<br />
National Academy of Music and currently is the only<br />
professional training institution in Vietnam and trains<br />
accordionists on different levels: Secondary for 7<br />
years, Undergraduate for 4 years, Post-graduate for<br />
Masters of Fine Arts (2-3 years) and Doctorate<br />
Degree (2- 4 years).<br />
Acitivites for 2008 - 2009: - In December of 2008,<br />
accordionists Nguyen Tuan Anh and Tran Thu Huong<br />
performed with Vietnam National Symphony Orch. in<br />
Hanoi Opera House (Five Pieces by Astor Piazzolla).<br />
VNAM Student Accordion Orch. in World Accordion Day Concert<br />
On 6 th May<br />
2009 Vietnam<br />
held a World<br />
Accordion Day<br />
Concert in the<br />
Acc. Dept. Hall<br />
of VNAM. Lars<br />
Holm the Prof.<br />
from Malmo Academy of Music (Sweden) gave<br />
Master Classes and performed on World Accordion<br />
Day in VNAM.<br />
A CD Recording was released in March by<br />
accordionist Tran Thu Huong with works by Scarlatti<br />
(Sonata B-dur) Kusjiakov (Winterbilder), O. Shmidt<br />
(Toccata No. 2) and J. Feld (4 Intermezzo). Dr.<br />
Nguyen Tai Hung published an article about the<br />
Method of Arranging Accordion Orchestra and Prof.<br />
Dr. Luu Quang Minh about the Progress of Integration<br />
and Development of Accordion in Vietnam.<br />
Pictured left: In July<br />
of this year,<br />
Accordionist Buzor<br />
Nenic from<br />
Yugoslavia (living in<br />
Denmark) with the<br />
VNAM Jazz Band.<br />
In May of 2009, accordionist F. Castiello and Trio<br />
Belturner (France) gave a Master Class in VNAM and<br />
held concert in L’Espace Centre Cultural Francaise<br />
de Hanoi.<br />
In September, VNAM sent two accordion students<br />
Nguyen Quynh Chi and Vu Viet Hung to compete in<br />
the 6 th Accordion International Competition in<br />
Reinach, Switzerland. In addition Dr. Nguyen Tai<br />
Hung presented a lecture. The two candidates<br />
participated in Solo Accordion Categories III for aged<br />
from 17 to 19 yrs. with the following results:<br />
Nguyen Quynh Chi (class of Dr. Nguyen Tai Hung)<br />
won 2 nd Prize and Trophy and Vu Viet Hung (class of<br />
Prof. Dr. Luu Quang Minh) won an Award of<br />
Excellence.<br />
Pictured above from left to right: Vu Viet Hung, Prof. Jürgen<br />
Löchter (Germany), Nguyen Quynh Chi and VNAM’s accordion<br />
teacher Nguyen Tai Hung after awards ceremony
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