Van-Anh Nguyen | |
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Born | 21 November 1987 36) Sydney, Australia | (age
Genres | Classical music |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Website | www |
Van-Anh Nguyen (born 21 November 1987) [1] is an Australian classical pianist. She was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album. [2] She was nominated for the 2022 ARIA Awards for Children's Album for her album The Princess and the Piano. [3] Her 2020 album Peaceful Piano Essentials reached number one on the Aria Classical Album Charts. [3] She lives in Los Angeles, United States. [4]
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Born in Sydney to professional Vietnamese musicians who fled to Australia in 1983, [5] Nguyen began learning piano when she was 15 months old. [2] She was accepted into the Young Artists Program at the Sydney Conservatorium when she was four years old and obtained her Associate Diploma in Music at the age of nine, and the Licentiate Diploma when she was twelve. [1] She first played at the Sydney Opera House when she was eight, in an event that aimed to raise awareness of refugees. [5] [4] Nguyen graduated from The Hills Grammar School in Sydney before completing a Diploma in Performance (piano) at the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Media (Writing) at Macquarie University. [6]
In 2008 Nguyen accepted the role as ambassador for Heart Reach Australia [1]
In 2014, she joined Discovery Channel as the host of a music travel show, 'Philippines In-Sync'. [7]
In 2018 Nguyen was signed to Universal Music. [8]
She has performed in renowned concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House, Segerstrom Centre for the Arts (United States), Herbst Theatre (United States), and Forbidden City Concert Hall (China).
In 2019, she created "Double Touch", a hybrid electronic collaboration with Australian DJ/Drummer/Producer, Mark Olsen. Their style has been described as a "unique dreamy mix of acoustic and electro sounds". [9] They have performed at festivals and venues across the world, including All Day I Dream Festival (California, USA), Scorpios (Mykonos, Greece), Cova Santa (Ibiza, Spain), Return to Rio Festival (Australia), Cloud 9 (Fiji), Glow Rooftop (Vietnam), and Omnia Bali (Indonesia). [9]
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Mise-en-scene |
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Tonalita |
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Crossfire (with Chris Howlett) |
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Pop Alchemy |
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Virtuoso Meets Soul EP (with Ronee Martin) |
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Peaceful Piano Essentials |
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Disney on Piano |
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The Princess and the Piano |
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The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2022 | The Princess and the Piano | Best Children's Album | Nominated | [3] |
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