The Director of the Kazakh National University of Arts, Aiman ​​Musakhajaeva, appointed the title of Honourary Professor to Bùi Công Duy. Photo coutersy of KazUniArt

HÀ NỘI – Vietnamese violinist and lecturer Bùi Công Duy was named Honorary Professor of the Kazakh National University of Arts (KazUniArt).

The awarding ceremony is a part of the International Seminar of Rectors of Arts Schools to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the KazUniArt in Kazakhstan on April 26.

“The Việt Nam National Academy of Music (VNAM) is honoured to have a representative, Meritorious Artist Duy, who was awarded the Honorary Professor title of the KazUniArt,” said Lê Anh Tuấn, director of VNAM.

“Duy is recognised and highly appreciated by the KazUniArt’s management board for his contribution and dedication to music and the string instrument as well.”

Alexander Sokolov, director of Tchaikovsky Conservatory and former minister of Culture and Mass Communication of the Russian Federation, was awarded Honorary Doctor of Science on the occasion.

“My dream has come true,” Duy said at the ceremony.

“It is a recognition and an encouragement for me. The world-legend violinists and pedagogues who I admire a lot were honoured here. And I wished I would be here one day.”

Born in 1981 in Hà Nội, Duy went to live and study in Russia with his family at the age of ten. He attended an intermediate course on violin at the Glinka School of Music with professor A.V. Gvozdev and People's Artist Irina Bochkova.

He received a PhD at Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He has won international awards, including the 1st prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1997, the first prize at the Z.Bron International Music Competition in 1995, and the first prize at the Demidove International Music Contest in Ekaterinburg in 1993.

He is also the first foreign violinist at the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, playing with award-winning Vladimir Sprvakov, Boris Garlitzky and Arkady Futer.

He returned to Việt Nam and currently works as deputy director of VNAM. His students have won international competitions in Thailand and Indonesia.

Over the years, he has performed with famous chamber orchestras such as the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Kapella Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker Orchestra and the London Festival Orchestra in Japan, German, Poland, England, Russia, and France.

KazUniArt has invited Duy to judge at international violin competitions, teach masterclasses and perform with Kazakhstan Symphony Orchestra.

The KazUniArt has so far awarded the title to a few individuals, including Tchaikovsky winners Victor Tretyakov and Eduard Grach and pedagogue Edward Schmieder. - VNS