Le Tuan Hung

Lê Tuấn Hùng ( ) is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist.^[1] 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,^[2] 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.^[3] A number of his compositions combine Vietnamese instruments with Indonesian and European Renaissance and Medieval instruments.^[4][5]

He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in Music from Monash University.^[6] He is married to Dang Kim Hien (Ðặng Kim Hiền).

Bibliography

• Le, Tuan Hung. "Mindfulness of hearing : hearing places from a non-western perspective" in Hearing Places : Sound, Place, Time and Culture. Edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. ISBN 9781847182555
• Le, Tuan Hung. Dan Tranh Music of Vietnam : Traditions and Innovations. Melbourne, Tokyo : Australia Asia Foundation, 1998. ISBN 0958534306 (hard back); ISBN 0958534314 (paperback)
• Le, Tuan Hung. "Vietnamese Traditions" in Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. General editors: John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell. Sydney: Currency House in association with Currency Press, 2003. ISBN 0958121311
• Le, Tuan Hung. "Vietnamese Music" in Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Edited by Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0195534328
• Le, Tuan Hung. "Popular music of Vietnam" in Music and Popular Culture: Asia and Australia : Unit Study Guide. Clayton, Vic.: Monash Open Learning, 1995.
• Le, Tuan Hung. "The Dynamics of Change in Hue and Tai Tu Music between 1890 and 1990" in Music-cultures in Contact : Convergences and Collisions. Edited by Margaret J. Kartomi and Stephen Blum. Sydney : Currency Press, 1994. ISBN 0868193658
• Le, Tuan Hung."Composition and Performing Process in Hue and Southern Chamber Music" in Nhac Viet Journal of Vietnamese Music, 1992, 1(2):43-60.
• Le, Tuan Hung."Music and Politics: A Socio-Political Interpretation of Significant Aspects of Compositions for the Zither Dan Tranh in South Vietnam since 1975" in New Perspectives on Vietnamese Music. Edited by Phong T. Nguyen. [New Haven, Ct.] : Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1992.

Discography

• On the Wings of a Butterfly : Cross-cultural Music by Australian Composers (Move Records, MD3297, 2005)^[7] ARIA nomination for Best World Music Album, Fine Arts Award 2005.
• Scent of time : Australian Compositions for Asian Instruments and Voices (Move Records, MD 3263, 2002)^[8]
• Echoes of Ancestral Voices : Traditional Music of Vietnam (Move Records, MD 3199, 1997))^[9]
• Landscapes of Time: Contemporary Sound Art of Vietnam (Move Records, MD 3197, 1996))^[10]
• Musical Transfiguration : a Journey across Vietnamese Soundscapes(Move Records, MD 3128, 1993))^[11]
• Quivering String. 1992 (Move Records, MD 3141, 1992))^[12]
• Best Seats in the House! (NMA, 1992))^[13]

References

External links

• Le Tuan Hung official site
• Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora

Listening

• Audio of compositions by Le Tuan Hung, from Le Tuan Hung official site
• List of nominees - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au 14 Sep 2005 Le Tuan Hung et al - On The Wings Of A Butterfly (Move Records).