Violinist Stephane Tran Ngoc to perform in HCM City
Vietnamese-French violinist Stephane Tran Ngoc will take to the stage at Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on July 13 in a classical music concert named “Masterpieces for Violin.”
Vietnamese-French violinist Stephane Tran Ngoc will take to the stage at Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on July 13. (Photo courtesy of Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese-Frenchviolinist Stephane Tran Ngoc will take to the stage at Ho Chi Minh City OperaHouse on July 13 in a classical music concert named “Masterpieces for Violin.”
He will play fivepieces, all by French composers, beginning with Saint-Saens’sHavanaise, a piece written in 1887 for a Cuban violinist and basedon the rhythm of the ‘habanera’.
Next will be Thais by Jules Massenet, a piece for violin and orchestrawritten to be played between the acts of the composer’s 1894 opera of the samename.
The first half ofthe concert ends with Poeme by Ernest Chausson.After the interval the audience will hear DariusMilhaud’s Cinema-Fantasie sur “Le Boeuf sur le Toit” (cinema-fantasyon “The Ox on the Roof”).
Originally written for violin andpiano, Ravel’s Tzigane, the lastpiece in the formal part of the program, was premiered in itsviolin-and-orchestra form in 1924.
Stephane Tran Ngocastonished his audience in HCM City in July 2017 when he played as an encore aPaganini caprice, an enormously difficult piece written to display the violin’stechnical possibilities.
TheParis-born violinist graduated in violin and chamber music at the ParisNational Superior Conservatory of Music when he was 15 years old.
He later received a master’s degree atBrooklyn College’s Conservatory of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Art fromThe Juilliard School in the US.
He has won top prizes at severalinternational competitions, such as the Lipizer Competition and theLong-Thibaud 1990 International Competition.
Ngoc has performed as a soloist in over 30countries with orchestras, including the Radio-France Philharmonic, theMonte-Carlo Philharmonic, the Danish Chamber Players and the Shinsei SymphonyOrchestra.
He lives in Europeand plays on a violin made in 1709 by one of Venice’s greatest violin-makers,Francesco Gobetti. –VNA
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Vietnamese-French violinist Stephane Tran Ngoc will take to the stage at Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on July 13. (Photo courtesy of Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera)
