Vietnamese traditional music or folk music is one major branch of Vietnamese music, truly reflecting the typical characteristics of people, culture, customs, geography, etc. She has also distinguished herself as a prizewinner in various international and national piano, including a medal in the American Prize Hollander Award for her live performance of the Mozart Concerto in G Major K. 453 with Maestro Edward Zilberkant and the Jäger Meisters Chamber Orchestra at the Kaye Playhouse. Goode et András Schiff ”. Les références de Mademoiselle Nguyen sont résolument impressionnantes et il n'est point étonnant qu'elle se soit distinguée dans de nombreux concours de piano et qu'elle ait acquis une telle expérience de concert dans le monde entier : Hongrie, Allemagne, Autriche et aux États-Unis.
As director of music administration at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, she oversaw all musical activities for the opera productions, recruited international guest coaches, music staff, and singers' corps, and was a consultant for artistic planning and casting. The project is a joint initiative of four members including conductor Nguyen Phu Son, pianist Nguyen Duc Anh, CEO Duong Vu Minh, and I. All of us are Overseas Vietnamese students who were lucky enough to get access to the world's cultural and arts essence.
This is also true of restaurants which range as small as a pot on a fire on the street, to family-style Pho hangouts where one or two community tables exist, to fast-food restaurants (both Vietnamese and other international fare including McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken), specialty restaurants which are the current rage in town, to high end spots such as the one at the top of the Intercontinental Hotel. Born to Vietnamese-refugee musicians and having started piano studies at the tender age of 13 months old, Australian-born concert pianist, composer and TV host has won several prizes nationally (Kawai Award) and internationally (2nd place & audience prize at the 13th Bad-Bertrich Klaviersomerfest, Germany). Immersed in the American and European piano teaching traditions, the talented Vietnamese also conducted a thorough research on the Vietnamese Preludes piano teaching method and is able to create his own unique piano teaching method, which can be called quintessentially” Vietnamese.
He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as the Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition (2005, 2010, 2015), Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Hamamatsu, Sendai (Japan), Piano Masters of Monte Carlo, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Prague Spring International, Montreal International Piano Competition, and Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition among others. Ce dernier a applaudi l'interprétation de Chopin de Mlle Nguyen en affirmant qu'elle jouait avec plus d'éloquence que les grands maîtres du piano comme Ignaz Friedman, Perahia, Horowiz, Rubinstein ou qui que soit d'autre dont les interprétations demeurent présentes à l'esprit.
She was sent to Beijing to record revolutionary music, lullabies and folk songs to help motivate Ho Chi Minh's ragtag Communist army to keep fighting after it overtook the French at the famous battle of Dien Bien Phu, ultimately leading to Vietnam's independence.