Dong Quang Vinh

Born in a Vietnamese musical family in 1984, Vinh has won many gold medals in domestic and foreign instrumental music competitions. From 2004 to 2013, Vinh was sent by the Vietnamese government to study orchestral conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. After graduating with a master’s degree in 2013, he returned to Vietnam and served as Principal Conductor of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet, Music Director and Conductor of the Suc Song Moi Traditional Orchestra and the Hanoi Voices International Choir. In 2017, Vinh won the international ‘Hibiscus Best Performance Award’ at the CHINA - ASEAN International Art Festival. In the past ten years, Vinh has arranged and composed hundreds of large-scale Vietnamese and classic masterpieces. He and his orchestras participated in many international exchange performances and music festivals, and visited more than 20 countries to perform.

General Secretary Xi Jinping paid two state visits to Vietnam in 2017 and 2023. Vinh and his Chinese wife Mo Shuangshuang were invited as ‘China-Vietnam Friendship Messengers’ to perform Vietnamese traditional musical instruments for the top leaders of the two countries. In 2018, as the only representative from Southeast Asia, Vinh was invited by the U.S. government to participate in a three-week of ‘Art Leadership Training’ program in the United States. In 2023, in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Vietnam, Vinh was selected by the Japanese government as the Conductor of the ‘Vietnam-Japan Festival Symphony Orchestra’ and performed in six major cities in Japan. To date, Dong Quang Vinh is the first Vietnamese conductor in Vietnamese history to conduct a Japanese symphony orchestra. For this project, Vinh was awarded the third prize of ‘International Cultural Communication’ by the Vietnamese government.

In recent years, Dong Quang Vinh has served as music director and conductor of many diplomatic concerts. In addition to performance activities, Vinh and his team regularly organise non-profit cultural and artistic exchange activities to spread Vietnamese national culture to domestic and foreign audiences more widely, gaining attention and support from people from all walks of life.