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Đặng Thái Sơn
Vietnamese pianist (born 1958)
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Đặng, but is often simplified to Dang in English-language text.
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In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Son.
Đặng Thái Sơn (born July 2, 1958, in Hanoi, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese and Canadian classical pianist. In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so.[1][2] He has received particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of Chopin and the French repertoire.[3][4][5]
Career
Dang began studying the piano in Hanoi with his mother, Madame Thai Thi Lien, then a professor at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.
He was discovered by a Russian pianist, Isaac Katz, on a visit to Vietnam in 1974. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia. In Moscow, he studied with Vladimir Natanson, a pu