Saigon Classical to stage Passionato concert
Pianists will gather at a Passionato concert which the Saigon Classical Music Group will hold on March 31 at the Southern Women’s Museum in District 3, HCM City.
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Pianist Nguyen Khanh Linh Linh will open the show by playing the song Step On My Cat while duo Lea Gilmore and Aidan Gilmore will perform Trong Com, a folk song of Vietnam.
Do Nguyen Minh Thu will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, WTC and Le Minh Chu Tu will perform his own song Thank you to wrap up the first half of the show.
Veteran pianist Nguyen Thi Uyen Sa will be a major artist in the second part of the show by playing a series of Frédéric Chopin works, including Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op 66, and Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 in B-flat minor, and Franz Liszt’s Étude de concert, S. 144, No. 3, “Un Sospiro.”
Sa will join pianist Truong Thi Hoang Dung for a performance of Erlkönig, D. 328 by Franz Schubert/Greg Anderson and later share the stage with violinist Ho Dang Hoi in the performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. for Violin & Piano and Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20.
Pianists Nguyen Thi Uyen Sa and Truong Thi Hoang Dung will join with violinist Ho Dang Hoi to wrap up the concert by performing Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5 for Violin & Piano.
Spectators are advised to register in advance via info@saigonclassical.vn, and make a minimum contribution of VND100,000 to help maintain the group’s operations.
The concert will take place from 6:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Southern Women’s Museum at 202 Vo Thi Sau Street, District 3, HCM City.
