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Musician Dang Ngoc Long
will return to the country in May as an honourable guest of National Guitar
Festival 2002 and bring along with him a 500-EURO guitar he will present to a
first prize-winning soloist of the festival. (Full story) Dang
Ngoc Long and his love for guitar
Having graduated from the
Hanoi National Conservatory of Music in 1979, Dang Ngoc Long worked as a
lecturer for the Central Highlands Literature and Art School and then for the
Hanoi National Conservatory of Music. He went to Germany in 1985 and followed
a post-graduation course at the Berlin Conservatory of Music until 1993.
After the course, he was invited to lecture at this conservatory. Ngoc Long became very
popular in Germany after his first CD was released in the country. He was the
first Vietnamese to win a special prize at an international guitar
competition entitled ‘Villa Lobos’ in 1987. He was elected as a chairman of
an art council of the international guitar festival in Germany. With his successful
performances around the world and great contribution to music training in
Germany, the Bernau Music School held a guitar competition bearing his name:
‘Long - Wettbewerb fuer Gitarre solo’ in 1994. Long plans to open a
class to teach music to Vietnamese children in Germany and return to Vietnam
to give performances and lectures. In his CD, he used some
pieces of Vietnamese music to introduce to a German audience the music of
Vietnam through his classical guitar. Dang Ngoc Long, together
with generations of Vietnamese guitarists and many famous foreign guitarists,
will perform at the Hanoi Opera House on May 27. By LE QUANG VINH |
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News | Social | Economy |
Weekend
issue, April 27-28, 2002
http://www.nhandan.org.vn/english/20020426/bai-cul11.html
http://www.nhandan.org.vn/english/20020426/culture.html