Music from Bamboo, Music of Vietnam | The Bamboo Ensemble Suc Song Moi

TEDx | 2017 | 12 mins

Listen to the beautiful sounds of Vietnam's only ensemble that performs its repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments.

1st song: Diễm Xưa | Trịnh Công Sơn
2nd song: Turkish March | Mozart

Suc Song Moi (The New Vitality) is the only bamboo ensemble in Vietnam that performs its symphonically orchestrated repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments. It was established in 2013 by the young conductor Dong Quang Vinh – the principle conductor of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet & Hanoi Voices Choir, who had been trained for 9 years in Shanghai Conservatory of Music – China. The Ensemble’s music instruments were all made from bamboo by Artist Dong Van Minh (father of Dong Quang Vinh) – a prominent bamboo music maestro and its reperoire, includes Vietnamese folk music and world’s academic classical masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Offenbach, Elgar etc., were all orchestrated by Dong Quang Vinh himself. Inherited the passion for academic music from his father, combined with the unfettered mind of a young professional, Vinh set up the Bamboo Ensemble with an ambition to bring academic music closer to the young generation in his unique and original style.