Vietnamese Traditional Music
Internationally acclaimed Dan Bau (monochord) player, Pham Duc Thanh was born in Ninh Binh, northern Vietnam, in 1956. Displaying a remarkable musical aptitude as a child, Duc Thanh was already playing the Dan Bau (monochord), as well as the Dan Tranh (16-string zither) and Dan Nhi (two-string fiddle)by the age of six. In 1974, Duc Thanh moved to Hanoi, where he studied at a popular traditional theatre school and joined the leading Hat Cheo theatre group as a Dan Bau player. After attending Saigon's Research Center for Music, he went on to become one of the country's top Dan Bau players of traditional and contemporary music.In August 1990, Duc Thanh and his wife, singer Nguyet Lan, left Vietnam and moved to Germany for several years before emigrating to Canada in 1996.Today, the Montreal based multi-instrumentalist is known as one of the world's leading exponents of traditional Vietnamese Music.Band members:Pham Duc ThanhLieu Nguyet Lan