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Pham Duc Thanh
Bio
Internationally acclaimed dan bau player, Pham Duc Thanh was born in Ninh Binh, northern Vietnam,
in 1956. Displaying a remarkable musical aptitude as a child, Pham was already playing the dan bau
(monochord) as well as the dan tranh (16-string zither) and dan nhi (two-string fiddle) by the age of
six. In 1974, Pham moved to Hanoi, where he studied at a popular traditional theatre school and joined
the leading Hat Cheo theatre group as a dan bau player. After attending Saigon's Research Center for
Music, he went on to become one of country's top dan bau players of traditional and contemporary music.
In August 1990, Pham and his wife, singer Lieu Nguyet Lan, left Vietnam and moved to Germany for
several years before emigrating to Canada in 1996. Today, the Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist
is known as one of the world's leading exponents of traditional Vietnamese music. Besides his solo
work, Pham has also appeared on over 20 internationally released CDs including the movie soundtrack
for Tony Bui's Three Seasons, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 1999 Sundance
Film Festival.
Track Listing of Vietnamese Traditional Music
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Oliver Sudden Productions K10-14CD
Track Listing of Vietnamese Traditional Dan Bau Music
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Oliver Sudden Productions K10-19CD
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