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| Japanese conductor Seikyo Kim |
Conductor Seikyo Kim and violinist Lina Matsuda of Japan will collaborate with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra for two concerts in Hanoi on July 17 and 18.
The two nights of classical music, titled “Subscription Concert Vol.34,” will feature Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” and Austrian composer Anton Bruckner’s “Symphony No.3.”
Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1970, Kim moved to the US at the age of 14. He studied conducting at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 1993 and at the Musikhochschule Conservatory in Vienna three years later.
In 1998 he won the first prize at the world-renowned Nikolai-Malko International Conductor's Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kim has been invited to work with most of Japan's leading symphony orchestras like the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Osaka Philharmonic, and the Kyoto Symphony.
Matsuda, born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1985, started her first violin lesson at the age of three.
She has won first prizes at a number of competitions at home, including the Japan Classic Music Competition in 1997, the Japan Mozart Competition in 2001, and the Japan Music Competition in 2004.
Matsuda has also performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, and the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.
The concerts, organized by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, will start at 8pm at the Hanoi Opera House, at 1 Trang Tien Street.
Source: tuoitrenews