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Hoang Pham Tra Mi, a student of lecturer Ta Quang Dong at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, won the certificate of satisfactory progress and a prize of 1,000 USD at the “8th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists” which ended on September 21, 2012.
The 8th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists, an event for contestants under 17 years old, was held by the Moscow Government with the support of the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation.
Tra Mi was born in Russia. She began playing piano when she was four. Hoang Pham Tra Mi has now amassed a collection of prizes from many international piano competitions. She was listed among the ten most outstanding young people of Vietnam in 2011.
When she lived in Russia, Tra Mi participated in many piano contests in the city where she lived. Her first international competition was the F. Chopin contest in Singapore, where she won first prize.
After that Tra Mi took a gold medal at the Asian Piano Festival in South Korea in 2010, and recently earned the first and second prizes at two competitions in Austria and France.
"Mi has shown great aptitude for the piano since her childhood," said Ta Quang Dong, a lecturer at the National Academy of Music, who accompanied the Vietnamese competitors./.
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