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Vu Nhat Tan (b. August 8, 1970, Hanoi). Vietnamese composer of orchestral, chamber, piano, and multimedia works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Vu studied piano with Nhat Anh at the National Conservatory of Music in Hanoi, where he earned a certificate in 1987 and degrees in secondary education in composition and musicology in 1991. He then studied composition and musicology with Tran Trong Hung there from 1991-95 and graduated with his BMus. He later studied computer music with Clarence Albertson Barlow and new music with Johannes Fritsch at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 2000-01, on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. In addition, he studied composition with Chinary Ung at the University of California at San Diego in 2002 as a guest student.
His honors include Third Prize in the composition for traditional instruments competition of the Vietnam Composers Association in Hanoi (1992, for Chamber Piece for Traditional Vietnamese Instruments [withdrawn]) and First Prize in the Saint-German-en-Laye competition (1995, for Ky Uc – Memory). He has also received four prizes from the Vietnam Composers Association (1998, for Ngu Doi Dang Dan – Interplay of Five Instruments; 2001, for Phac Thao 2000 – Outline 2000; 2002, for Nhip Don Nhip Kep – Simple Meter, Compound Meter; 2003, for Ao Don Ao Kep – Four-Part Vietnamese Dress). Most recently, he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council (2002), which enabled him to research contemporary music and ethnomusicology in the USA. His music has been performed in Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Mongolia, Switzerland, the USA, and Vietnam, including at the Roaring Hoofs Festival in Ulaanbaatar (2000), the Louisiana Festival of Contemporary Music in Baton Rouge (2002), the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth (2003), and the Asian Music Festival in Tokyo (2003).
He is also active in other positions. He created the multimedia performance projects Dem Dai – Sleepless Night (2001), on a grant from the Arts Network Asia in Singapore, Chao HoiAn (2002), on a grant from the British Council in Hanoi, KhaT (2003), Space of Traditional and Contemporary Music in China (2003), on a grant from the Arts Network Asia, and Pito (2004), on a grant from the Ford Foundation. He has performed on numerous occasions as a pianist and sáo tre (bamboo flute)-player in contemporary and improvisational music in Australia, China and Vietnam. Furthermore, he gave improvisational music concerts and workshops in Hue in 2004.
He has lectured on composition and musicology at the National Conservatory of Music in Hanoi since 1995. He has also guest-lectured on Vietnamese music in Australia and Vietnam.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: vntan@hn.vnn.vn or vunhattan@yahoo.com
Street address: Mr. Vu Nhat Tan, So 7 Ngo 39 Haonam, Ochodua - Dongda, Hanoi, Vietnam
Telephone: + 844 851 7667
Cellular phone: + 849 1352 8586
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Hat Tho – Singing Poem, 1995; Phac Thao 2000, 1999-2000; Khong Gian – Space, 2000-01; Di Vao Di Ra – Going in...Going out, small orchestra, 2003; Gao – Rice, large orchestra, 2005
CHAMBER MUSIC: Ky Uc, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1993-94, revised 1995-96; Phac Thao – Esquisse, alto flute, 2 flutes, 1995; Trang – Moon, cello, 1996; Thanh Thuy – Spring River, dàn tranh (16-string zither), 1998; Dong Ai – Winter Melancholy, dàn tranh, 1998 (also version for piano); Ngu Doi Dang Dan, sáo tre, dàn nhi (2-string bowed lute), dàn nguyet (2-string moon-shaped lute), dàn tranh, percussion, 1998; Ao Don Ao Kep, flute, bassoon, guitar, violin, cello, double bass, percussion, 1998-99; My Xuan, dàn tranh, 1999 (version of piano work); Sáo Mo – Just a Daydream (improvisation), sáo tre, 1999-2000; Cologne 2000, string quartet, 2000-01; four minutes, sáo tre, piano, 2001; My Improvisation, sáo tre, violin, organ (+ synthesizer), live electronics, 2001; Graphic Notation, any number of players, 2001; Moment, any number of players, 2001; Cong (improvisation), 12 percussion (c. 6 gongs, c. 6 tam-tams), 2001; Nhip Don Nhip Kep, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, 2001-02; Hoa Mua – Rain Flower, flute, guitar, 2002; Meditation and...ABC, violin, cello, 2002; Tre, 4 percussion, 2002-03; Nhi, violin, 2003; Com, sáo tre, tiêu (vertical bamboo flute), dàn nhi, dàn nguyet, dàn tranh, 2004, revised 2006; Xom, any number of players, laptop, 2004; Vac – The Bittern, tinh tau (fretless gourd lute), laptop, 2004 (also version for laptop, 2005); giot – Drop, dàn tranh, 2005
PIANO: Doan Trang – A Blank, 1989-96; My Xuan – The Girl in Spring (improvisation), 1997 (also version for dàn tranh); Dong Ai, 1998 (version of work for dàn tranh); Vong Co – Thinking of the Past, 1998; Tranh Khac Da – Stone Prints, 1998; Hallo, piano, metronome, 2000
ELECTROACOUSTIC: bung – To Flip, live computer, 2005; Chom, laptop, 2005; Vac, laptop, 2005 (version of chamber work)
MULTIMEDIA/PERFORMANCE: Thap Dien Diem Vuong – The Ten Courts of the Kings of Hell (exhibition/installation/performance), 3 gongs (1 player), 4 CDs, statues (by Nguyen Manh Duc), film (by Tran Luong), 2003; body frame/video frame (installation), 5 dancers, dàn nguyet, computer, film (by Rich Streitmatter-Tran), 2004; thang – bamboo ladders (installation), laptop, paintings (by Tran Hau Yen The), 2005
(Last updated on March 27, 2006)
