CLASSICAL LEGENDS: Việt Nam’s leading violinist Bùi Công Duy will perform in the “A Night of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms” concert at the HCM City Opera House on April 27. — Photo courtesy of HBSO

HCM CITY — The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will stage a concert featuring masterpieces by great composers Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms at the Opera House on April 27.

The “A Night of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms” concert will feature Việt Nam’s leading violinist Bùi Công Duy, who will perform Violin Concerto No. 5 by Austrian genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The composition, consisting of three movements, was written in 1775, and premiered in the Christmas season that year in Salzburg. The work is in Turkish style, filling with joyful melodies.

Duy is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky National Music College in Moscow. He won first prize and gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in St. Petersburg in 1997.

He has performed with several famous orchestras in European and Asian countries such as the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Kapella Orchestra in Russia, and Berliner Symphoniker Orchestra in Germany.

He has been executive director of Vietnam Connection Music Festival, and artistic director of Vietnam Classical Players, an ensemble-in-residence of the festival since 2015.

Duy is currently Deputy Rector for Concert Activities of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music.

In 2023, he was named an Honorary Professor by the Kazakh National University of Arts in Kazakhstan, and was awarded the title of People’s Artist.

The night will also highlight the overture from the opera Fidelio by Beethoven, and Symphony No 3 in F Major by Brahms, featuring the HBSO orchestra.

Beethoven spent much time writing overture for his only opera Fidelio, premiering at Vienna’s Theatre an der Wien in 1805. The first two versions were not accepted by the public. Finally, the third version brought glory, worthy of 10 years of effort by Beethoven.

Brahms finished his four-movement Symphony No 3 in summer 1883. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra offered the premiere performance in December of that year.

FEARLESS LEADER: Conductor Trần Nhật Minh, head and chorusmaster of the HBSO Opera, will lead the concert. — Photo courtesy of HBSO

Conductor Trần Nhật Minh, head and chorusmaster of the HBSO Opera, will lead the concert.

Minh graduated in chorus conducting from the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory in Russia and earned his Master of Art at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2007.

He won several top prizes at international competitions such as the International Competition for Young Conductors in Vladivostok in 2003, and the International Choral Festival organised by Interkultur, the world’s leading organiser of international choir competitions and festivals, in Hội An in 2014.

The concert will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1. Tickets are available at the venue and at ticketbox.vn. — VNS