(VOVWORLD) - Assoc. Prof., Dr. Ta Quang Dong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, has become the first Vietnamese to be invited to join the jury for the piano contest at the 17th International Tchaikovsky Competition.
 Assoc. Prof., Dr. Ta Quang Dong (Photo: Vietnamnet.vn) |
The competition, named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, has been held every four years in Russia since 1958 for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of age.
This year’s competition is taking place in Moscow and Saint Petersburg from June 19 to July 1.
With six specialties of piano, violin, cello, voice, brass instruments, woodwind instruments, the 17th competition received 742 entries from 41 countries around the world. Particularly or piano, there were 153 applications from 23 countries.