The Hanoi-based French Cultural Center L’Espace will kick off its cultural events after the Vietnamese Tet Holiday with a concert and a movie screening early next month.
French award-wining pianist Marie Vermeulin, who won the Second Prize at the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in Paris in 2007, will perform at the center on the night of February 9.
Born in 1983, Marie spent six years in Paris studying with the renowned pianist Jacqueline Dussol.
In 2001, she obtained her Diploma of Musical Studies from the National Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt Region.
Three years later, she received another higher music degree, the National Diploma of Higher Studies Musical, from the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon.
In May 2006, she won the Second Prize at the International Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, as well as several other prizes, including the prize of the youngest finalist.
In July 2007, she was chosen to take part in the program “Déclic” which promoted young French winners of international competitions.
She has performed regularly in France and other countries like Italy, Spain, Lithuania, and Germany.
Tickets costing VND100,000 are available at the venue.
On February 10, a series of 11 three to 16-minute French cartoons with Vietnamese subtitles will also be screened at the center.
The movies include “Mr. Tong” directed by David Celler, Florent Limouzin and Arnaud; “The Baby Doll of Berni” directed by Yann Jouette; Johanna Bessière’s “Injustice;” “The Sleeping Beauty,” directed by Bernard Palacios; “Calypso, The Deadly Dance” by Bruno Collet; Jean-François Laguionie’s “Potr’ and the Mermaids;” Samuel Tourneux’s “Even Pigeons Will Be Sent to Heaven;” “50/50,” directed by Geoffroy Barbel; “The Lame Day,” by Geoffroy de Crécy; “The Sacred Love Story” by Jérémy Clapin; and” The Angel Fall,” directed by Geoffroy Barbel-Massin.
Tickets costing VND20,000 for the general public and VND10,000 for the center’s members are available at the venue.
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