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Vo Ta
Han
is not a professional
musician. A banker/business executive by trade, he took up
music only as a serious hobby; playing music and composing
during his spare time.
During his days at Nguyen Trai
High School in Saigon, Vietnam, Vo Ta Han also studied
Classical Guitar with Professor Duong Thieu Tuoc at the
National Conservatory of Music (1962-1967).
While studying Management at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he
continued to further his music education by studying
Harmony, Counterpoint, Orchestration, learned piano and gave
guitar concerts regularly. He published his first guitar
transcription "Los Sitios De Zaragosa" in 1970,
founded the MIT Classical Guitar Society in 1971 and the
Boston Classical Guitar Society in 1973.
As an international banker,
financial advisor and corporate turnaround specialist, he
has worked in Montreal, Toronto, Manila and currently in
Singapore, where he and his family have been living since
1981.
Vo Ta Han wrote his first song
"Ai Tro Ve Xu Viet" (which is commonly known as "Nho
Me") in 1974, with lyrics taken from a poem of his aunt,
Minh Duc Hoai Trinh.
However, he did not compose seriously until by chance, he
found a collection of poems by
Huynh Van Dung in
Saigon in 1993, which inspired him to write 10 songs and
released his first album "Dau
Ngay Xua Rat Xua",
both in Singapore and Vietnam, in 1994. During the next 10
years, he went on to compose over 400 songs and released 27
CDs...
In 1983, Vo Ta Han founded the
Singapore Classical Guitar Society and remained its
President for 16 years. It was during this period that he
transcribed and published a number of selected Vietnamese
songs for classical guitar
EASTERN
MUSIC SINGAPORE is proud to present in this website
all the musical works by Vo Ta Han, consisting of his guitar
and piano transcriptions, as well as his Vietnamese songs
composed with lyrics from favorite poems ...
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