Đặng Thái Sơn
Đặng Thái Sơn | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | Vietnam Canada |
Alma mater | Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory |
Occupation | Pianist |
Years active | 1976–present |
Title | People's Artist |
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Awards | First Prize 10th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (1980) |
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Đặng Thái Sơn (born July 2, 1958, in Hanoi, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist. In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so.[1][2] He has received particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of Chopin and the French repertoire.[3][4][5]
Career
Dang began studying the piano in Hanoi with his mother, Madame Thai Thi Lien, then a professor at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. He was discovered by a Russian pianist, Isaac Katz, on a visit to Vietnam in 1974. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia. In Moscow, he studied with Vladimir Natanson, a pupil of Samuil Feinberg, and subsequently with Dmitri Bashkirov.
In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so.[6][7]
In the 1980s, because of his Vietnamese citizenship, he could not move freely between countries to perform: he needed approval from the Vietnamese government before attending any concert, while each visa application would take 2 months. Dang said he "lost opportunities to make a career because of these political difficulties".
He has played with many renowned orchestras, including:[10]
- Czech Republic:
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Prague Symphony
- France:
- Germany:
- Japan:
- New Japan Philharmonic
- NHK Symphony
- Poland:
- Russia:
- Moscow Philharmonic
- Moscow Virtuosi
- Russian National Orchestra
- St Petersburg Philharmonic
- United Kingdom:
- Other countries:
- Helsinki Philharmonic
- Hungarian State Symphony
- Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Oslo Philharmonic
- Sydney Symphony
- Vienna Chamber Orchestra
- Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Dang has appeared under the direction of
In the field of chamber music, he has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, the Smetana String Quartet, Barry Tuckwell, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Pinchas Zukerman, Boris Belkin, Joseph Suk, Alexander Rudin, and he has played duo-piano with Andrei Gavrilov.
Other career highlights include a New Year's Day concert (1995) with
Dang Thai Son is frequently invited to give master classes around the world - such as the special class in Berlin in October, 1999, where he taught alongside Murray Perahia and Vladimir Ashkenazy. He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as the Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition (2005, 2010, 2015), Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Hamamatsu, Sendai (Japan), Piano Masters of Monte Carlo, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Prague Spring International, Montreal International Piano Competition, and Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition among others.
During the 2012–2013 season, Dang Thai Son toured around the world with an ambitious program of all five
He was a visiting professor at the
Dang is the winner of the Prix Opus in the 2016 "Concert of the Year" category for his concert presented by the Fondation Arte Musica at the Musee de Beaux Arts' Bourgie Hall in Montreal, Canada.[12]
In September 2018,
Dang Thai Son received the "Doctor Honoris Causa" from the
In 2021,
Discography
Dang Thai Son has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Melodiya, Polskie Nagrania Muza, CBS Sony, Analekta, Victor JVC, and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Mr. Dang's album "Chopin's Concertos" on Fryderyk Chopin Institute label was awarded in 2013 a Platinum Disc by the Polish Association of Audio-Video Producers for sales of over 10,000 copies. This disc features recordings of the Chopin Piano Concertos on a 1849 Erard piano and period instruments under the baton of the late Frans Bruggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, documenting two memorable events in the festival "Chopin and his Europe" in 2005 and 2006.
Two recording projects were released in 2017. The first one is a Schubert recording with Victor Kenwood Japan, a company that Dang Thai Son has worked with since 1995. The second recording devotes to Paderewski's compositions which includes the Piano Concerto in a minor and a selection of Paderewski's solo works. The Piano Concerto on this CD was recorded live with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy during the "Chopin and his Europe" Festival in Warsaw on August 29, 2015. This recording was selected as "La clef du mois" (Disc of the Month) by ResMusica (Paris, France.)
Dang Thai Son was chosen by Deutsche Grammophone, in partnership with The Frederyk Chopin Institute, to be featured as one of the artists in their recently released 2-volume recording of music of Chopin on period instruments.
References
- ^ "Past Prize-Winners". medici.tv. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ McDonald, Jim (25 January 2016). "Thai-Son in Knockout". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ *"A genuine musician" —Isaac Stern
- ^ *"A pianist of superb discipline and undeniable distinction...spectacular and musically delirious" —The Boston Globe
- ISBN 978 2 35055 228 6
- ^ "Past Prize-Winners". medici.tv. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ McDonald, Jim (25 January 2016). "Thai-Son in Knockout". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Dang Thai Son".
- ^ "Biography".
- ^ "Biography".
- ^ "Dang Thai Son to Join NEC Faculty".
- ^ "Dang Thai Son - News".
- ^ "XVIII Chopin Competition". chopin2020.pl. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- ^ "Le Montréalais Xiaoyu Liu en finale du Concours Chopin". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2021-10-21.