VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign and Vietnamese guitarists will be featured in a performance in the HCM City Music Conservatory this weekend.

The cradle of love: Young guitarist Le Hoang Minh.

Young artist Le Hoang Minh, a lecturer at the Canberra University of Music and the Australian National University, will perform popular pieces by Mertz, Ponce and Koshkin.

Minh, a member of the Australian quartet Guitar Trek, is considered one of Australia's most promising guitar talents, having played many venues around the world, including the Sydney Music Festival.

An Australian of Vietnamese origin, Minh has performed in HCM City before to popular and critical acclaim.

To open the classical music concert, amateur Vietnammese guitarist Tran Hoai Phuong will perform Adios Nonino by Piazzolla and Reverie by Regondi.

A graduate of the HCM City Music Conservatory, Phuong harbours a passion for the guitar though he works by day at Citibank.

Duong Kim Dung, deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Guitar Club, will continue the event with solos of three works by Pujol, Sagreras and Albeniz.

The concert will end with a performance by young artists Huynh Ba Tho and Nguyen Thanh Huy, who have studied guitar at the city's conservatory. They will a Piazzola's Tango Suite and Andante & Allegro.

Tho, 34, has won several top prizes at guitar competitions in Hanoi and HCM City, and Huy, 37, of the city's conservatory, has performed in many music concerts and festivals in Vietnam.

The show begins at 8pm on Saturday at the HCM City Music Conservatory, 112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1.

Tickets are VND80,000 to 100,000 (US$5-6) and are available at the conservatory.

(Source: Viet Nam News)