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DANG Thai Son(Canada/Viet Nam)
Jury Member, Piano Section
“A genuine musician” – Isaac Stern
Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Xth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist.
He began piano studies with his mother in Hanoi, later at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Vladimir Natanson and Dmitri Bashkirov.
Since winning the Chopin Competition, his international career has taken him to over forty countries, he has played with numerous world-class orchestras such as London’s Philharmonia, Orchestre Nationale de Paris, Staatskapelle Berlin, St-Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Czech Philharmonic, Warsaw National Philharmonic, NHK Symphony … under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner, Pinchas Zukerman, Mariss Jansons, Pavvo Jarvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy …
He is currently a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA and Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, USA. Many of his students has won prizes of the major international Competitions.He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition, Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Busoni (Italy), Sydney (Australia), Montreal (Canada), Hamamatsu (Japan) …
He is the subject of the biography “A pianist loved by Chopin- The Dang Thai Son Story“, published by Yamaha Music Media Corporation in 2003.
Mr. Dang is the winner of the Prix Opus in the 2016 “Best Concert of the Year” category of Quebec province in Canada. In September of 2018, Dang Thai Son received the Gold Medal “Merit to Culture” from the Ministry of Culture of Poland.
Dang Thai Son has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, Melodiya, Victor JVC, and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. His CD of Paderewski’s compositions (with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy) was selected as “La clef du mois” (Disc of the Month) by ResMusica (Paris, France.) in 2017.
Official Website: www.dangthaison.net