Dang Thai Son

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Đặng Thái Sơn (born July 2, 1958 in Hanoi , Vietnam) is an internationally active concert pianist. He gained fame when he won first prize in the Warsaw Chopin Competition in October 1980 .

Life

Son comes from a family of artists, both his father Dang Dinh Hung and his mother Thai Thi Lien were musicians and pianists. He first studied with his mother in Hanoi until he was discovered by the Russian pianist Isaac Katz in 1974, who took him to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied with Vladimir Natanson and Dmitri Bashkirow .

Since winning the Chopin Competition, he has made guest appearances in almost all prestigious concert halls with major orchestras worldwide and made recordings with Deutsche Grammophon , Melodia , Polskie Nagrania, CBS Sony and other labels. He is known in Japan and North America, but also in Europe.

Since 1987 he has been a visiting professor at Kunitachi Music College (Tokyo) and currently also teaches at the University of Montreal (Québec, Canada). In October 1999 he gave a master class in Berlin, together with Murray Perahia and Vladimir Ashkenazy .

"His repertoire includes most of Chopin's piano works and many works by other Romantics and Impressionists as well as the piano concertos of almost all great composers (Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Mozart, Rachmaninov, etc.)"

Son has had Canadian citizenship in addition to Vietnamese since 1995. He lives in Montreal.

Web links

• Official website
• Sound carrier by Dang Thai Son in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dang Thai Son. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, accessed on October 14, 2015 (English). 
2. ↑ “C comme Chopin”, Improvisation so piano , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Neva Editions, 2017, p. 29. ISBN 978 2 35055 228 6
3. ↑ Opening concert. DANG THAI SON. (No longer available online.) Chopin Society Darmstadt, October 11, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Arthur Kaptainis: A pianist who is famous for not being famous. The Gazette , February 4, 2016, accessed February 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Elijah Ho: Interview with pianist Dang Thai Son (Part I). Examiner.com, December 16, 2011, accessed February 5, 2016 . 

Note: The family name of this Vietnamese name is Đặng , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Dang . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their first name Sn - even in formal situations .