HANOI
PERFORMANCE
Improvising Orchestra with Sandro Manzon
7 – 9.30 pm, January 18, 20 and 21
Blossom Art House
94B Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem district
You are invited to participate in a rare multidisciplinary workshop and performance opportunity with Canadian composer/improviser Sandro Manzon.
Over the course of 3 sessions and a concert, Sandro will guide the participants through a workshop intensive on ‘conducted improvisation’. Each session will introduce and practice techniques based on an intricate ‘sign-language’ for improvisers in a large ensemble.
Concert and Ballet ‘A Spring Night’
8 pm, January 21
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district
Come to concert and ballet program “A Spring Night”, featuring classic works by well-known composers including Rossini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky as well as Vietnamese Traditional Songs and contemporary ballets
Ticket prices: VND 200,000 – VND 350,000 – VND 500,000
Jazz Concert with Timo Vollbrecht & Band
8 pm, January 22
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc street, Ba Dinh district
Come to enjoy a show by acclaimed jazz musician Timo Vollbrecht and his band FLY MAGIC. Every song creates a new universe for itself – jazz elements merge with post rock, minimalism, new music and contemporary song culture.
FLY MAGIC consists of Timo Vollbrecht (saxophone), Keisuke Matsuno (guitar), Sebastian Merk (drums) and Matthias Pichler (bass). The band has been playing shows all over the world - in New York’s most famous jazz club, and at festivals in Panama, Haiti, Australia and Europe.
In Hanoi, the second part of the concert will be played together with saxophonist Nguyen Bao Long and the ensemble JumpforJazz.
EXHIBITION
”Quynh by Night” – Solo Exhibition by Quynh Dong
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen street, Hai Ba Trung district
In this exhibition, Quynh Dong designs a spectacle with layers upon layers of images, which have the ability to challenge the representation of cultural stereotypes and at the same time creates new perceptions in the most unexpected manner.
Interested in and inspired by pop culture, Quynh Dong employs materials available in the tropes of soap operas popular in Asia, the music prevalent in music shows or karaoke establishments, mock decorative miniatures, traditional paintings, common new year calendars, and children toys.
Lomography Exhibition “No to Sorrow” by Maika Elan
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc street, Ba Dinh district
Lomography is a style of analog photography, which works with the unpredictable image qualities of cheap cameras, like colour changes and negative effects.
On display will be a range of different photographs, from the areas of portrait, fashion and documentary photography. Maika Elan’s pictures play around with colours, shades, focus and perspective.
They show both the trivial and exceptional scenes from the photographer’s life, and always reflect her optimism and happiness.
Exhibition “Himalaya” by Photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh
Toong Co-working Space
8 Trang Thi street, Hoan Kiem district
Exhibition “Himalaya” displays 25 works by photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh during her trips to the lands surrounding the Himalayas in North India over the past three years.
Nguyen Quynh Anh was born in Hanoi and grew up in Russia. She graduated with an architecture major in Moscow, but has pursued photography and travelling as the greatest passions in her life after her trip to North India in 2012.
HO CHI MINH CITY
PERFORMANCE
Concert “New Worlds” by the Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra
7:30 pm, January 22
HCMC Conservatory of Music
112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1
Led by Music Director Adrian Tan, highlights of the program include the world premiere of Vietnamese composer Dinh Lang’s Concerto for Dan Tranh “The Endless Fields”, with acclaimed virtuoso Nguyen Hai Phuong; and the orchestral debut of prize-winning young pianist Tran Yen Nhi in Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
Rounding up the program is Antonin Dvorak’s ever-popular Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” with which he advocates African-American melodies as American folk songs and the foundation for the “future music of this country”.
Price: Standard: VND200,000 – VIP: VND 250,000
Music Night with Lydmor
8 pm, January 19
Cargo Bar
7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, District 4
Come to a show with Danish singer, songwriter and producer Lydmor.
Behind the curious and quite self-ironic name Lydmor (Danish for “Mother of Sound”), you find the 25-year old Jenny Rossander.
Despite her young age, Lydmor has experienced more than most musicians ever will. She has toured most of mainland Europe and southeast Asia on her own, been on “trust tours” all across the European continent, and finally established herself as one of the most promising underground artists in her native Denmark.
Advance: VND 150,000 (at ticketbox.vn)
At door: VND 200,000
A O Show
6-7 pm, Monday – Friday
Ho Chi Minh City Opera House
7 Lam Son Square, District 1
Come to enjoy Saigon's equivalent to Cirque du Soleil with various elements of Vietnamese music and performance depicting the poetic memoir of Northern Vietnamese artists.
Tickets ranging from VND 630,000 to VND1,470,000
EXHIBITION
Exhibition “Passers By” by Ho Hung
VinGallery
6 Le Van Mien, Thao Dien, District 2
Come to ‘Passers By’ a solo exhibition of new watercolour paintings by Vietnamese artist Ho Hung.
Ho Hung’s watercolours capture the ephemerality and the subtle sensuousness of the everyday. Dappled light, warm colours and empty spaces characterize his style and his view onto the landscape of his homeland of Southern Vietnam.
Exhibition “Open Room II”
You are invited to group exhibition “Open Room II”, introducing artworks by Tran Thanh Ha, Lap Xuan, Kim Duy, Ngo Dinh Bao Chau and Dao Tung
“Open Room” is an art project established by artists Ngo Dinh Bao Chau and Dao Tung and is funded by Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF). Every year, the project introduces new and on-going body of works of the two artists and other emerging artists.
