VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese students attended international music competitions in 2014 where they came away with top prizes. Unlike most traditional piano pedagogues who teach beginning students in the US, Pham combines technical work with inspirational music composition assignments and improvisation piano games fostering his students' imagination and allowing them to express themselves freely.
As his star continues to rise as one of Vietnam's top DJs and an increasing demand from local and regional artists who want to work with him, all in all, 2020 is expected to be a very busy year for Hoang Touliver, and we expect to see his name alongside other international names soon.



Toronto-native J J Jun Li Bui won his first piano competition on the day he turned 7, which cemented his commitment to music: he went on to prizes in several Canadian contests, as well as the Hanoi (Vietnam), Aarhus (Denmark), and Midwest (United States) International Piano Competitions.
Although SCE's primary focus is instrumental music, it also welcomes opportunities to present Western and Vietnamese vocal music with guest artists such as Thu Ha, Bich Lien, Thai Hien, Nguyen Thanh Van, Nguyen Hong Quang, Tu Lan, Bich Van, Dinh Bao, Pham Ha, Bao Chau, Nguyen Quoc Tuan, Nguyen Annie… SCE's programs include classical, light jazz, Western and Vietnamese pops.

In addition, her performances have been featured on radio stations throughout the United States as well as television programs such as Grand Piano,” which was shown on cable channels in several states across the country, CUNY TV channel 75 on the program Study With the Best,” Japanese television Fujisankei and Vietnamese national television.
Born to Vietnamese-refugee musicians and having started piano studies at the tender age of 13 months old, Australian-born concert pianist, composer and TV host has won several prizes nationally (Kawai Award) and internationally (2nd place & audience prize at the 13th Bad-Bertrich Klaviersomerfest, Germany).
There are three main characters in a Ca trù performance: a female singer (called đào” or ca nương”) who use the tongs, a male instrumentalist (called kép”) who plays dan day to music support the vocalist, a spectator (called quan viên”, usually being the author of the song) who plays the drum to punctuate the song and express the pleasure by the drum sound.

He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as the Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition (2005, 2010, 2015), Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Hamamatsu, Sendai (Japan), Piano Masters of Monte Carlo, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Prague Spring International, Montreal International Piano Competition, and Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition among others.
Ce dernier a applaudi l'interprétation de Chopin de Mlle Nguyen en affirmant qu'elle jouait avec plus d'éloquence que les grands maîtres du piano comme Ignaz Friedman, Perahia, Horowiz, Rubinstein ou qui que soit d'autre dont les interprétations demeurent présentes à l'esprit.

Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist Dang Thai Son will present six of Debussy's Preludes,” Schubert's Piano Sonata in C Major” and Chopin's Barcarolle, Op. 60,” Bolero, Op. 19,” Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5,” Ballade No. 1, Op. 23” and three waltzes at Shenzhen Concert Hall on June 9.