Renowned British conductor Colin Metters
(CPV) -World renowned British conductor Professor Colin Metters will return to Vietnam for a special concert at the Hanoi Opera House on November 21-22 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam – UK diplomatic relations.
At the concert, conductor Colin Metters will be accompanied by Guy Johnston, a British cellist who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2000.
Ninety musicians of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra also join the repertoire, while the talented young Vietnamese conductor Tran Nhat Minh from the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera will be the Assistant Conductor to Colin Metters.
Colin Metters was invited to Vietnam the first time 16 years ago by the British Council to begin a training project for the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. It became one of the most successful and longest UK – Vietnam cultural partnerships.
Colin Metters was awarded the Cultural Activists Medal by the Vietnamese government in 1999 for his services to Vietnamese culture. His work in Vietnam was even featured in a BBC documentary called Harmony in Hanoi, directed by Anthony Fabian in 2003.
The programme will feature the Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5./.
Đăng ký: VietNam News