JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Duc-Anh Nguyen comes from a family of musicians in Hanoi and is considered as one of the leading pianists of his home country Vietnam. 

He began his piano studies at the age of 7 at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. In 2013, he continued his education in Germany with the German scholarship. He completed his bachelor and master studies with Prof. Eric Le Sage and Prof. Tibor Szasz at the University of music in Freiburg and graduated with the highest distinction. Masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Robert Hill, Denis Pascal and Bernhard Wulff complete his education. Furthermore, he also had the opportunities to have Masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Robert Hill, Denis Pascal and Bernhard Wulff.

Duc-Anh Nguyen is a prize winner of international piano competitions and won 2nd prize at the "2nd International Piano Competition in Hanoi". He was also the winner of the international Alkan Zimmerman Piano Competition in Athens (Greece). Duc-Anh received an award from the Prime Minister of Vietnam for his outstanding artistic achievements. 

In 2015, Duc-Anh Nguyen was invited to Berlin as an honorary artist on the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Germany and Vietnam. Further invitations followed to the "International Autumn Music Festival" in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), the Gina Bachauer Music Festival in Corfu (Greece) and the "Long Lake Festival" in Lugano (Switzerland). 

Regular invitations to play with the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi Chamber Orchestra and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra are proof of the popularity and versatility of the piano artist.

As an enthusiastic and passionate musician, it is always a great concern of him to perform extraordinary and high-quality piano works of forgotten composers. Thus, he was the first pianist to present piano music by the French composer and piano virtuoso Charles-Valentin Alkan to the Vietnamese audience. It is also very important to him to present the classical music of his home country Vietnam to a larger international audience. 

Duc-Anh Nguyen also extends his active artistic activities with voluntary work: in 2017 he became co-founder of "Maestoso", a society for the development and promotion of classical music in Vietnam whose artistic director he is still today, and has held the position as artistic director until today.

In 2020 he follows an appointment takes the position as head of the piano department at the Soul Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Ho Chi Minh City.

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche