The concert presented the overture from Mozart’s two-act comic opera Cosi fan tutte (All Women Do the Same), which was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790.
The second part of the night will feature Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.
The four-movement work was completed in 1940 and premiered at the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1941.
Both works were performed by the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera's (HBSO) symphony orchestra.
Conductor Tetsuji served as permanent conductor of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra.
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| Conductor Honna Tetsuji |
He was appointed music advisor and conductor of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) from 2001-2009, and then the orchestra's music director from 2011.
He took the VNSO to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Hall in the US, Capella Paolina Chapel and the Italian Presidential Palace in Italy, and the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia.
Tetsuji has conducted numerous orchestras worldwide such as La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg of Austria.
The highlight of concert was Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, which was completed in 1785, featuring young pianist Le Trang Linh.
Born in 2007 in Hanoi, Linh began studying piano at the Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM) when she was seven years old. She is currently a student at the Colburn Music Academy in the US.
Linh has won music competitions in Japan, Italy, the UK, the US, and Poland.
