Portraits of
THE ARTISTS
Actively performed as a Tuồng artist since 1959 and made great influences on traditional music scene of the country, Mẫn Thu is a national treasure, a great artist to the audiences and respective teacher to the new Tuồng performers generation.
Leading musician at playing Đàn đáy (3 -stringed lute), Đàn nhị (2-stringed fiddle) and Đàn nguyệt (2-stringed lute). With the passion to the conservation of ancient music, he has been actively researching and manufacturing silk strings on the restored techniques from haft a century ago.
Famous for his role as a fool in Chèo drama pieces, Manh Phong has made the audiences laugh and cry for almost 40 years.
Born in a family of Chèo singing, Vu Ngoc is a son of the most famous Chèo actor of the early 20th century and is regarded as a master of Hát Hè ( comic singing) and traditional Chèo's percusion.
The leader of National Tuồng theater's performers crew. She received a Prime Minister's certificate of Excellence for her contribution to traditional music scene of Vietnam.
Considered to be one of the most beautiful voices of traditional music and the leading artist in the art of Chèo and Poetry Declamation. She as the representative of Vietnamese traditional music participated in various art programs internationally.
Former lecturer of Vietnam's Academy of Theatre and Cinema, Thanh Binh chose to be faithful to the genre of original ancient music from the beginning days of her career. She obtains precious voice and techniques of different Northern traditional singing such as Hát Chèo, Ca Trù, Quan Họ, Hát Văn.
She has been playing the Dan Tranh ( 16 string zither) for 30 years and be the first artist in the history to perform this instrument in combination with Chầu Văn music.
The most skillful Đàn Nguyệt player (moon string instrument) in the art of Chèo and Chầu Văn. His playing were featured in the Cannes winner feature "The scent of green papaya" (Dir. Tran Anh Hung) and "The Drought and Rain" (Ea Sola).