This is the second time Kah Chun Wong performs in Vietnam, after his first appearance at the 2014 Asia-Europe New Music Festival in the country.
In the upcoming concerts, the young talent will conduct the orchestra to play the masterpieces of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Japanese leading pianist Uehara Ayako is also expected to join the programme.
Kah Chun Wong was born in 1986 and graduated from Singapore’s Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.
He has been invited to the stage at major concert events and music festivals around the world and has received awards in global musical conducting contests, including the first prize at the 5th International Conducting Competition “Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest” in 2013 and the second prize in the 4th International Lvro von Matacic Competition for Young Conductors,
He is also the initiator and director of the Asian Contemporary Ensemble.
