Pianist Nguyen Tuan Nam will perform a concert with a Swedish trio at the Hanoi Opera House on August 22 in what will be the first live performance given by the 25-year-old musician.

Nam will be accompanied by Per Nilsson on guitar, Johnny Aman on bass and Olle Dernervik on the drums. They will be joined by Hakan Rydin, Nam’s teacher at the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden, and saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac, one of Vietnam’s leading jazz musicians.

In the first part of the show, they will perform classic jazz songs by Bill Evans, Keith Jarret, Duke Ellington and Bruno Martino.

The audience will then enjoy contemporary songs such as A Day in Paris and Feel Like Home by Nam, Vietnamese Folk Song by Rydin, Lappen by Nilsson and Away by Dac.

Nam is the only student of the Vietnam National Academy of Music to have been granted a full scholarship to both the Sydney International Academy of Music and the Malmo Academy of Music and he is now the youngest lecturer of Accordion, Jazz and Guitar at the National Academy in Hanoi

“I want Vietnamese audiences to have more chances to enjoy and understand jazz and hopefully one day, the world will know Vietnamese jazz, which has its own unique characteristics,” he said.

Tickets are on sale at the Hanoi Opera House.

Nam and his colleagues will perform again at a live show in HCM City next Wednesday.

VNS