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EDUCATION
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Fulbright Fellowship with Mme. Yvonne Loriod Messiaen - 2004-2005
Candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts – Present
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Master of Music in Piano Performance – May 1999
Mannes College of Music, New York, NY
Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance – May 1997
The Juilliard School, New York, NY
Pre-college – 1989-1990
Full scholarship study at Gnessin Music School in Moscow
Full scholarship study at the Hanoi Conservatoire, Vietnam - 1982- 1989
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EXPERIENCE
I. Piano Performance
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• Competition Prizes – Awards
Winner: Fulbright Fellowship Award
Winner: Artist International Presentation Competition
Winner: Artists International's Outstanding Alumni Series Award
Laureate: International Keyboard Institute and Festival 2003 Competition
Winner: Fontainebleau (France) Festival Chamber Music Award
Third Prize: International Piano Concerto Competition San Francisco
First Prize: Southwestern Youth Music Festival chamber music category
First Prize: Music Etude Club Competition, Los Angeles
Third Prize: Young Pianist Beethoven Competition
First Prize: Music Teacher's Association of California Statewide Competition
First Prize: Chopin Competition Southwestern Youth Music Festival
Winner: Artists of Tomorrow Competition of the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony
Orchestra
Third Prize: Bellflower Orchestra Competition
Award: Presidential Academic Fitness Award from President Clinton
Award: Los Angeles Maestro Foundation Award
Award: The Herb Alpert Scholarship Award
Scholarship Award: Fontainebleau (France) Festival Full Scholarship Award
Scholarship Award: International Keyboard Institute and Festival
Scholarship Scholarship Award: Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
Scholarship Award: Verbier Music Festival in Swizerland Scholarship Award
Scholarship Award: Juilliard School of Music Scholarship Award
Scholarship Award: Robert Turner Scholarship Award
Scholarship Award: Gnessin School of Music, Moscow Full Scholarship Award
Award: Presidential Award for Achievement in Musical Excellence, Vietnam
• Solo Performances/Recitals: Representative List
Carnegie Hall Recital Hall, New York
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, New York
Consulate of Germany, New York
Barge Music Concert Series, New York
Consulate of Germany, New York
LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College, New York
Steinway Concert Hall, New York
Morse Recital Hall, New York
Paul Recital Hall, New York
Elebash Concert Hall, CUNY, New York
Recital Series at St. James Chapel, St. John the Divine, New York
Messiah Festival of the Art, New York
Fulbright Gala, the Plaza Hotel, New York
International Institute and Festival, New York
Rockport Chamber Music Festival Recital
Huston Musicales, Dacor Bacon House Foundation Washington D.C
Odeon Chamber Music Series, Virginia
Bowdoin Music Festival, Maine
Longy School of Music, Boston
Nixon Library, Los Angeles
Ambassador Theater, Los Angeles
Norris Theater, Palos Verdes, Los Angeles
William Bristol Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
Konzertsaals Hardenbergstraße Berlin-Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
Eglise de Verbier, Verbier Festival, Switzerland
Weiner Saal Concert Hall in Salzburg, Austria
Mozarteum’s concert series in Radstadt, Austria
The American Church in Paris, France
Conservatoire National de Region de Paris, France
Salle de Colonnes at the Chateau Fontainebleau, France
Maison de Mexique Cité International Universitaire de Paris, France
Polish Institute, Berlin, Germany
Berliner Ensemble Theater, Germany
Town Hall, Wadern, Germany
Gnessin Music School, Moscow
Vietnamese Musician Association, Hanoi, Vietnam
National Theater of Opera, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Chamber Music Prizes
American School of Music at Fontainebleau Chamber Music Prize
First prize Southwestern Youth Chamber Music festival
First prize Music Teacher Association Chamber Music Festival
• Orchestral Appearances
Regional Orchestra of Paris: Musique des Gardiens de la Paix
San Francisco Concerto Orchestra
Brentwood-Westwood Symphony
Bellflower Symphony
Hanoi Symphony Orchestra
• Radio and Television Appearances
WQXR 96.3 New York “Young Artist Showcase”
Classical 94.5/WNED-FM, New York
WFIU Bloomington, Indiana Classical Radio
NIPR, Northeast Indiana Public Radio
WHRO-FM, Virginia
89.9 WDAV Classical Public Radio, North Carolina
"Grand Piano" TV Show, Los Altos, California
Vietnamese Radio & Television
• Press/Reviews
Musical America (2004 edition): Quynh Nguyen was one of the selected "19 young
stars of tomorrow" in an article called "Young Artist: The Thrill of Discovery"
in the Musical America 2004 edition.
The Boston Globe (November 2003): Review of solo recital in Boston by music
critic Richard Dyer.
International Piano Magazine (November-December 2002): Review of CD “Quynh
Nguyen plays Schubert, Chopin” by Benjamin Ivry.
Christian Monitor Science Magazine (September 2002): Review by music critic
Benjamin Ivry.
The New York Times (June 2002): Press release by New York music critic James
Oestreich.
New York Concert Review (Summer 2001): Review of Carnegie Recital Hall debut by
musicologist, critic, pianist and author Harris Goldsmith.
Rundschau fur Meizig-Wadern (November 1996): Review of recital in Wadern
Germany
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II. Piano Teaching
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Invited to join the faculty of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival
(2006)
Lecturer at Hunter College Music Department (2006)
Teacher Assistant for Professor Martin Canin, Bowdoin Summer Festival, Maine
(2002)
Teacher of secondary piano at Hunter College (2000-2002)
Assistant teacher at the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division (2000)
Substitute teacher at the Spence School (2000)
Substitute teacher at the USDAN Summer Music Camp (1999)
Substitute teacher for piano classes and theory classes at the 92nd Street Y
School of Music (1999)
Private teaching since 1993
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