Prodigy brings City sweet sounds

Fifteen-year-old Anna Sowanna Takeda, a Thai-Japanese violinist will perform in a concert at the Hcm city Conservatory of Music on June 6.
Takeda will perform Paganini’s Violin Concerto No 1 in D and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, among other pieces.

The Hcm city Symphony Orchestra will be led by world-renowned Japanese conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura, accompanied by violinist Vilmos Olah from Hungary.

Takeda picked up the violin when she was only five years old and has won may music prizes, including Gold Medals at the 8th Osaka International Music Competition in 2005 and the Thai National Youth Music Competition organized in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

She took part in many violin concerts in Budapest, Hungary, recently.

Fukuma has been music director and conductor of many symphony orchestras in Japan and other Asian and Latin American countries. He has worked with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and has made a great contribution to the development of the symphony performances in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese government presented him a contribution award in 1998.

Tickets for the 8 pm concert range from VND60,000 to 100,000 and are available at the city’s Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1.

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Prodigy brings City sweet sounds

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