Phan Hải An performs a pas de deux with Maya Schonbrun, who earlier this year won the Grand Prix de Lausanne. — Photo courtesy of Staci Schonbrun

HÀ NỘI — A charity concert put together by three siblings, bringing together Vietnamese folk music, classical and ballet will take place on August 19 at the Petit Concert Hall at the Việt Nam Academy of Music.

"Thêm yêu thương" or "Sharing the Love" has attracted students, currently studying music in Europe and the United States, and other friends at the Hà Nội conservatory of music and Hà Nội Dance School to work on this special project.

"This concert shall benefit children's charities in Việt Nam," said Phan Hải An, a Princeton University pre-med student in neuroscience, who is putting his science studies on hold to take his next year to train with the Philadelphia Ballet.

The brother who dances and plays piano and his younger sisters who have performed at nursing homes while studying in the US, were delighted to see the joy they brought to the elderly.

"It's extremely rewarding to have the ability to make others happy," Phan Cầm Thi and Phan Linh Đan wrote to Việt Nam News.

Phan Linh Đan plays with Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra. — Photo courtesy of Skol Watanawongskul

All proceeds from the concert shall benefit the Centre for Health, Education and Social Work No. 2 in Hà Nội at Yên Bài Commune, Ba Vì Distritct and the Hà Cầu Orphanage in Hà Đông, also in Hà Nội.

A shortened music programme shall be performed again at the centres when they deliver the donations.

Students participating in the concert currently study classical music at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany, the Interlochen Arts Academy, Boston Conservatory and Berklee school in the US.

They will play Paganini, Mozart, Liszt, Shostakovich and Vietnamese traditional quan họ music. 

For tickets and donations, please contact Lê Phan Hoàng Giang @036 743 2337. — VNS