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- DANG Thai Son
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“A genuine musician” - Isaac Stern
Born in Hanoi (Vietnam). He began piano studies with his mother, later at the Moscow Conservatory with V. Natanson and D. Bashkirov. In 1980, he became the first Asian who won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Since winning the Chopin Competition, his international career has taken him to over forty countries , he has played with numerous world-class orchestras such as the Philharmonia , Orchestre Nationale de Paris, Staatskapelle Berlin, St-Petersburg Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, NHK Symphony …under the direction of Sir N. Marriner, P. Zukerman, M. Jansons, P. Jarvi, V. Ashkenazy …
He is currently a Professor at the New England Conservatory and Oberlin Conservatories in USA. Many of his students has won prizes of the major international Competitions. He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as Chopin in Warsaw , Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Busoni ( Italy ) , Montreal ( Canada ), Hamamatsu ( Japan ) , Sydney ( Australia )…
Dang Thai Son has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, Melodya, Polskie Nagrania, CBS Sony, Analekta, Victor JVC, and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
He is the subject of the biography, “A pianist loved by Chopin - The Dang Thai Son Story”, published by Yamaha Music Media Corporation in 2003.
In September of 2018, Dang Thai Son received the Gold Medal “Merit to Culture” from the Ministry of Culture of Poland.
Visit https://www.dangthaison.net/ for more information.