Orchestra Campus: with passion and poetry (part IV)

At the Vietnam Orchestra Campus, to which Deutsche Welle and the Bonn Beethovenfest invited the orchestra of the Hanoi Music Academy in September 2009, the young Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy performed the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Max Bruch. Bui Cong Duy is among Vietnam's top internationally known performing artists.

Prizewinner at eight

Bui Cong Duy was born in 1981 and began playing violin at the age of four, taking lessons from his father, Prof. Bui Cong Thanh. He won his first prize for music just four years later. In 1990, he was awarded first prize at the national Mua Thu music competition.

As a ten-year-old, he started studying at the Glinka State Conservatory in Novosibirsk in Russia, for which he had received two scholarships: the honorary scholarship for young Siberian talents and the Russian Ministry of Culture's scholarship for talented young musicians. At the age of 17, he continued his studies at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He won numerous prizes at competitions, including the first prize and gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and received the title "Asian Pride."

International performances

In 2006 Bui Cong Duy worked for the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra under the direction of Prof. Spivakov. He performed with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra, the Ho Chi Minh Symphony Orchestra, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra and the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra, among others. He currently teaches at the Vietnam National Academy of Music Hanoi (VNAM).

Campus workshop

Bui Cong Duy's fiery interpretation of the popular Violin Concerto No. 1 by Max Bruch was met with an enthusiastic response from the audience in the Beethovenhalle in Bonn and the press. In particular, the audience and the media praised the full and flexible sound he drew from his violin. Bui Cong Duy was accompanied by the orchestra of the Hanoi Music Academy under the German conductor Peter Guelke.

Program:

Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 1 in G minor op. 26

Performed by:

Bùi Công Duy (violin)

Orchestra of the Vietnam National Academy of Music Hanoi

Conductor: Peter Gülke

Recorded by Deutsche Welle in the Beethovenhalle Bonn on September 30, 2009.

Gero Schliess/kjb