Ngoc Vu was born in Germany in 1993 and began playing the piano at the age of six. He started performing publicly already at a young age. He played Mozart’s piano concerto in CMajor KV 267 at the 800th anniversary of the city of Dresden when he was 13. Later he debuted in Semperoper Hall in Dresden when he turned 15. 

Mr. Vu has won several national and international piano competitions over the years. He received the Mozart Award at the VYP Academy for the best performance of a piano concerto of the composer in 2006 in Vienna.

Mr. Vu collaborated with star conductor Vladimir Jurowski in a series of concerts where he performed Mozart Piano Concerto KV 467 in C-Major in 2012. Jurowski has been an inspiration and influence for Ngoc ever since. Mr. Vu also performed the Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor with the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie Freiberg and Raoul Grüneis as conductor. The reviews were favorable praising his “sensitive, virtuosic and multifaceted playing” and a “unique tone language full of emotions”. 

After one of his most recent recitals, “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” (WAZ) wrote that “every note has a meaning, every musical thought receives attention in its reflected yet intense interpretations, which explore a work down to the smallest details”.

Mr. Vu has performed in such notable halls as Berlin Philharmonie, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, Steinway Hall London, Gewandhaus Leipzig and Giuseppe Verdi Opera House in Salerno. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in April 2017 and came back for another performance one year later. In celebration of Emil Gilels 100th birthday, he has been invited to the Emil Gilels Festival to have lessons with Robert Levin, Lylia Zilberstein and Dimitri Bashkirov in March 2016. Later in July 2016 Mr. Vu was invited to the Edwin Fischer Summer Academy where he received lessons with British pianist Paul Lewis. 

In 2018 he was invited to participate and perform at the inaugural Frost Chopin Festival in Miami where he received tutoring among others from Kevin Kenner and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron. He has received important artistic impulses at master classes and music festivals where he studied with renowned musicians such as Sir Colin Davis, Dang Thai Son and Pascal Devoyon.


In the summer of 2016, Ngoc Vu graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. With a grant from DAAD, he enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to study with Professor Daniel Pollack where he received his
Master of Music in 2018. Recently, he finished his Artist Diploma in Piano Performance at the University of Miami Frost School of Music under the guidance of Professor Kevin
Kenner. 

Additionally, he is a scholar of Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Live Music Now