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Norwegian conductor Terje Mikkelsen heads to Hanoi for the Vietnam-Norway friendship concert on September 25 and 26.
Violinist Bui Cong Duy and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will join in the gala event which will feature Norwegian Carnivals of Artists of Svendsen, Concerto No. 26 for violin of Max Bruch, concerto No. 36 of Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky and Hanoi, Hanoi of Vu Nhat Tan.
Under his father Bui Cong Thanh’s guidance, Duy won first prize in a national violin contest in 1990 before he studied at Novosibirsk Conservatory of Music in Russia. In 1997, Duy won gold medal at the Tchaikovsky music contest at Saint-Petersburg and he also picked up an MBA at Moscow National Conservatory in 2006. He is currently professor at Vietnam National Academy of Music.
Mikkelsen, who conducted a Russian music night in HCMC last year, studied at the Norwegian State Music Academy, and with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he received his diploma in orchestral conducting in 1989. Mikkelsen previously conducted the Ukrainian State Orchestra in Kiev, and in 1993 he was appointed Chief Conductor and Music Director, a role he also filled for the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Riga.
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