The world premiere of new work composed by Tran Kim Ngoc will be performed in Ha Noi by the artist and the musikFabrik Cologne, a leading new German orchestra this Friday.

Musician Tran Quang Hai, working for France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), has performed various traditional Vietnamese songs and melodies in front of international audiences over the world with a spoon and some small j-harps.

Chairman of Toyota Vietnam Foundation Akito Tachibana, Director of Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra Ngo Hoang Quan and singer Thanh Lam at the press conference.

The Trans-Asia Bridge festival will be held in the central province of Quang Tri from July 23 to 27.

A contemporary music theatre piece entitled ‘My Chau’s World’ composed by Kim Ngoc will be performed for the first time by musikFabrik orchestra from Germany at the Hanoi Opera House on June 25.

Lee Kirby told Tuoi Tre newspaper that he is infatuated with Vietnamese music and he knows many Vietnamese songs by heart.

The fourth trans-Vietnam concert will come to four cities in Vietnam, and will include the Queen of Pop Thanh Lam.

Singer Minh Quan from Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) joined others from ASEAN countries, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in the ASEAN+3 concert in Bangkok Thailand on June 19.

Cuba’s traditional music band Los Tradicionales will offer northern audiences their performances after taking part in the Festival Hue 2010.

A 43-member art troupe from Guangdong province of China will make a performance tour of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from June 16 to 20.

Vietnam’s Queen of Pop and mother-to-be Ho Ngoc Ha is filing a lawsuit against a newpaper for running a story about her teenage marriage that the diva said was “untrue and defamatory.”

The next Hue Festival, slated for 2012, will be bumped back a month to July instead of June like in previous years, announced event organizers at a press conference on June 14.