Le Tuan Hung
Lê Tuấn Hùng is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled performer of the đàn tranh, a Vietnamese zither, he plays traditional Vietnamese music as well as cross-cultural and experimental music. His compositions have been created for a wide range of instruments, ensembles and media. A number of his compositions combine Vietnamese instruments with Indonesian and European Renaissance and Medieval instruments.
He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in Music from Monash University. He is married to Dang Kim Hien.Discography
- ARIA nomination for Best World Music Album, Fine Arts Award 2005.
- Scent of time : Australian Compositions for Asian Instruments and Voices
- Echoes of Ancestral Voices : Traditional Music of Vietnam
- Landscapes of Time: Contemporary Sound Art of Vietnam
- Musical Transfiguration : a Journey across Vietnamese Soundscapes
- Quivering String. 1992
- Best Seats in the House!
Listening
- , from Le Tuan Hung official site
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