The Concert: "From Europe with Love"

On April 21st 2018, the concert: “From Europe with Love”, at the Soul Live Project Complex (216 Pasteur, D.3), will take the audience to a romantic musical space with well-known Classical music art songs, with lyrics adapted from inspired proses of European poets (lieder).

“From Europe with Love” is the very first Classical music project of SLP SERIES – a series of arts projects to connect communities by Soul Live Project. Powered by Amberstone Media, it marks the first step of a long journey to shorten the distance between the arts and the public.

ABOUT THE CONCERT "FROM EUROPE WITH LOVE"

1. Time: 7:00 PM, Saturday, 21/04/2018

2. Location: Soul Live Project Complex - 216 Pasteur, Dist.3, HCM

3. Ticket Price: 

600,000 VND (VIP) | 400,000 VND (STANDARD) | 280,000 VND (STUDENT)

* SPECIAL DISCOUNT:

+ For COUPLES: [VIP couple] tickets and [Standard couple] tickets:  20% discount on the original price (applicable only for Concert tickets)

+ For GROUPS: [Group of 4] tickets: Buy 3 get 1 free (applicable only for Standard tickets)

4. Booking ticket

+ At here: bit.ly/benjaminappl

+ Hotline: 01639.310.236 (Châu Yến Nhi)

5. About Soul Live Project’s Artistic Director for Classical Music: Tra Nguyen - Pianist.

British-Vietnamese pianist Tra Nguyen’s performances have been praised as “coruscating” (The Independent), “sophisticated” (Rheinpfalz-Zeitung) and "surpassing keyboard artistry and passion" (American Record Guide). Her recent recordings on Sterling and Grand Piano Naxos were chosen twice as Album of the Week by The Independent, in March 2010 and April 2012.

Tra's imaginative programming balances core repertoire and lesser-known music. She worked with Sterling Records to produce premiere recordings of music for piano and orchestra by Joachim Raff with conductors Andrea Quinn, Roland Kluttig and the Symphony of Norrlands Opera. The chamber music CD with clarinetist Sabine Grofmeier was released on ARS Produktion, featuring works of the German romantics and their contemporaries. Her critically acclaimed, recent 6 CDs of Joachim Raff on Grand Piano (now also available in a complete box set) are recognised as a firm introduction to his piano works. Tra's next CD, Raff's Works for Piano and Orchestra recorded with Maestro Kerry Stratton and the Prague Radio Orchestra, will be released on Grand Piano in November 2017.

Tra gave her first performance at the Hanoi Opera House when she was ten and has continued to engage audiences in other prestigious venues worldwide (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and Tokyo Opera City amongst others). Tra acquired a wide range of repertoire with complete works for piano and orchestra of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin; complete Schubert Piano Sonatas (including the incomplete sonatas), Liszt Transcendental Etudes version 1837 are amongst the projects undertaken. Tra is also a keen chamber music partner.

Tra Nguyen studied with Lev Naumov in Moscow Conservatory and with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Tra was awarded with ARAM (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music) for her "significant contribution to the music profession" in May 2013.

6. About Benjamin Appl

Described as ‘the current front-runner in the new generation of Lieder* singers’ (Gramophone Magazine, UK), Benjamin Appl, Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year 2016, is celebrated by audiences and critics in recital, concerts and opera. He was a member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme from 2014 until 2016 and was an ECHO Rising Star artist for the 2015/16 season, appearing in recitals at major European venues including the Barbican Centre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Paris, etc. He became an exclusive SONY Classical recording artist in May 2016. In 2018, Benjamin received an “Orphée d‘Or Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau” award for “Best Lieder* Interpretations” by the Académie du Disque Lyrique in France.

(Lieder*: the German term for “Art songs")

7. About Soul Live Project Series (SLP Series) – “Your passport to the arts”

The SLP Series is our brand new project in 2018. Powered by Amberstone Media, it is a series of monthly community-based performing arts events, with a variety of genres, including: CLASSICAL MUSIC – JAZZ – WORLD MUSIC – THEATRE - POP MUSIC – ALTERNATIVE INDIE/ROCK MUSIC – TRADITIONAL ARTS - DANCE. Anyone who is interested in or loves the performing arts can join the SLP to experience a myriad of different art forms. With this project, the SLP offers the community the opportunity to travel the world of arts and taste the various genres and styles.