Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Nguyen Thanh Thuy is a leading đan tranh player/improviser in both traditional and experimental music. She was born into a theater family and was raised with traditional Vietnamese music from an early age in Hà Nội. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music and started working with new music since 2000, collaborating with many musicians and composers around the world. She has received many distinctions and has recorded several CD’s as soloist with orchestra and solo CDs. Since 2012 she is carrying out an artistic doctoral project at the Malmö Academy of Music concerned with gesture in traditional Vietnamese music.