Nguyen Thien Dao
Vietnamese-French composer
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Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (3 July 1940 – 20 November 2015) was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen.[1] He lived in Paris, France. In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1984.[2][3][4] He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75.[5]
Works
- Tuyn Lua for chamber ensemble, Festival de Royan 1969.
- Koskom for large orchestra, Radio France 1971
- Ba Me Vietnam, for contrabass and twenty instruments, Festival de La Rochelle, 1972
- Mỵ Châu Trọng Thuỷ Opera in Vietnamese - premiere at the Opéra de Paris (Salle Favart), 1979.[6][7][8]
- Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Rencontres de Metz, 1984
- Symphonie pour pouvoir with Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 1989
- Concerto 1789 (pour sextuor à cordes et orchestre), with the Orchestre National de Lille at the Palais des Congrès of Lille.
- Les enfants d’Izieu opéra-oratorio Festival d’Avignon 1994
- Hoa Tâu Hanoi Opera 1995
- Khai Nhac Hanoi Opera 1997
- Giao-Hoa Sinfonia, Salle Olivier Messiaen Radio France 1998
- Sóng hồn ("Married") opera. Premiere Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam. 2000
- Arco Vivo for violoncello solo 2000
- Kosmofonia pour grand orchestre et chœur Forbach 2001
- Sóng nhất nguyên (Monastic Wave) 2002
- Sóng nhạc Trương Chi (The Wave of Music) Opéra de Hanoî 2003
- Quatre Lyriques de ciel et de terre, opéra de chambre Paris 2004
- Suoi Lung May, 1er Festival de Musique International Hué 2006.
- Khoi Thap, Hanoi Opera 2007
- So Day, Hanoi Opera 2007
- Duo Vivo, hommage à Olivier Messiaen, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 2008,
- Định mệnh bất chợt Oratorio – "Thanh xướng kịch KIỀU của Nguyễn Thiện Đạo" 2012[9]