Minh-Trang NGUYEN - music artist

ABOUT ME

Growing up in a family of musicians, Minh-Trang Nguyen started her interest with music when she was 4. Beginning with đàn Tranh (Vietnamese Zither) as her first major instrument, she also plays “đàn Đá” (stone instrument), “đànT’rưng” (bamboo instrument), and other Vietnamese traditional music instruments. After graduating from the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, she went to China in 2012 to study Guzheng at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Currently, she is pursuing a master degree of Ethnomusicology at the Haute école de musique de Genève, and in parallel working as an independent musician in Lausanne, Switzerland.

EDUCATION

Haute école de musique de Genève, Switzerland

[present]

Master, Ethnomusicology.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China

[2012 – 2016]

Bachelor, Guzheng and Traditional Music performance.

Vietnam National Academy of Music, Vietnam

[2000 – 2011]

Traditional Music performance.

CONTACT

E-mail: trangnm9128 [-at-] gmail.com

Experience

2020

Delivered performance at the Festival des Cultures du monde de Voiron 37th” at Voiron, France
Delivered performance in the welcome ceremony for the Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh at the Embassy of Vietnam in Bern, Switzerland.

2019

Attended Voyage d’étude Soie et bambou 2019, China, with the team at Haute ecole de musique de Geneve

2003 – 2016

Member of Tre việt band – a professional music band that plays traditional and self-invented instruments made of bamboo, stone from the Vietnamese highland.

2015

Organizational committee member, performed at Chinese-Vietnamese friendship concert, held in Hanoi, Vietnam. (in the news at: china.org.cn, CCTV.com)
Acted as invited judge at the First National Guzheng Contest- Nanjing Bank Cup
Recorded and arranged curriculum for Vietnamese Zither music course for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for education purpose.

2013

Performed at the First Guzheng Week Festival at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Worked with professor Wenyan Sun to give online lectures about Vietnamese Zither on the Chinese Guzheng network Guzheng.cn. The lectures are available online at guzheng.cn.

2010

Performed at the Asian Music Festival in Seoul, South Korea
Invited performances from Japanese Government in the Promotion of Mutual understanding and Cultural exchange between Vietnam and Japan, in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa
Japan concert tour with the Vietnamese-bamboo Tre Việt music band.
Performed at the “Music Improvisation” program with a Sweden music band.
Performed at the Philippines ASEAN Cultural Festival

2009

Invited performances on Vietnamese zheng introduction seminar at Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Concert tour with the Orchestra of traditional music of Hanoi Conservatory of Music in Laos

2006

Performed at the Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Vietnam and Switzerland.

Honors and Awards

Awards

2015. Bronze medal for team performance in Professional category at the International Jiangnan Sizhu Music Competition. We were the only foreign team in this category.
2009. Top 1 in the entrance examination to Hanoi Conservatory of Music, major in Vietnamese Zheng.
2009. Bronze medal for Ching’ram music instrument performance in the Hanoi Festival of folk songs and traditional music instrument performance (“Liên hoan hát dân ca và biểu diễn nhạc cụ dân tộc thành phố Hà Nội”)
2008. First prize in Vietnamese Zheng solo performance in the National Contest in solo and ensemble of traditional music instruments
2008. Third prize in ensemble performance in the National Contest in solo and ensemble of traditional music instruments
2005. Gold medal for stone music instrument performance in the Hanoi Festival of folk songs and traditional music instrument performance

Scholarships

2011-2015. Vietnamese Government full scholarship for the study at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
2012, 2013, 2014. Shanghai scholarhips for excellent foreign students.
2008, 2009. Kumho Asiana, Toyota scholarships for excellent students.

Concerts and tours

Turkish March – Vietnamese Bamboo band

VideoClips

Biển (The sea) – performed at the Hanoi Festival of folk songs and traditional music instrument performance

VideoClips