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
