The participation of Viet Nam National Academy of Music in “2020 National Young Talents Competition for students at Culture and Arts Training Institutions”
From the 12th to 18th December 2020, at the Song Huong Theatre, Hue Academy of Music, Thua Thien Hue province, a “2020 National Young Talents Competition for Students at Culture and Arts Training Institutions” took place.
This was a biennial event organized by the Department of Training, Department of Emulation and Reward and Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The competition was carried out with diversified and exciting contest programs of twenty-four delegations with nearly 190 contestants from cultural and arts training institutions nationwide. Each contest program had its own unique characteristics of all kind of local culture and arts, which were imbued with regional imprint, making the competition to be lively, diverse and traditional.
According to Prof. People’s Artist Ngo Van Thanh, Head of the Jury, the criteria of the competition were professionally oriented, keeping traditional features and approaching closely to the level of world’s music. This year, acts and contestants were divided into three categories. After a serious and objective working week, the competition was closed with fourteenth First Prize, ten Second Prizes, twelve Third Prizes, one Consolation Prize, four Prospect Prizes (the category for universities and academies); four First Prizes, five Second Prizes, seven Third Prizes, one Consolation Prize (the category for colleges); and eight First Prizes, eleven Second Prizes, eight Third Prizes, seven Consolation Prizes (the category for trade schools and gifted schools). This was the success of the competition as the expertise quality had been raised and the great participation of many cultural and artistic training institutions nationwide had been gathered.
Viet Nam National Academy of Music had eight items of the students of Departments of Vietnamese Traditional Music, Accordion-Guitar-Organ, Wind and Percussion Instruments, Vocal, Piano and Jazz Music to perform in the competition. The students tried their best and won four First Prizes. They were Nguyen Hai An - the second year university student of bamboo flute, Vo Minh Quang - 6/9 intermediate student of Piano, Nguyen Truong Linh - the first year university student of vocal, Le Minh Hieu, the third year university student of Drum Jazz; one Third Prize for Nguyen Hoang Minh, 7/7 intermediate student of Guitar and one Prospect Prize for Tran Hong Hanh - 5/6 intermediate student of the Tranh zither. With those achievements, Viet Nam National Academy of Music has once again affirmed the leading position of a big music training unit in the country. ■
LE KIEU ANH