Music Director

Hong Khanh Nguyen — studied violin with professors Do The Phiet, Nguyen Khac Cung, Hoang Cuong at the Saigon National Conservatory of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance 1973, and also taught violin until 1988. In 1970, he was awarded 2nd Prize of The Esso National Violin Competition. Mr. Nguyen had played with the National Symphony Orchestra for many years. After his arrival in the United States in 1990, he has participated in various performances with The Queen String Quartet at NY, the Chapman University Symphony Orchestra, the Long Beach University Symphony Orchestra, the Torrance Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra Institute and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Festival Symphony Orchestra, etc. A Music Director, conductor, violinist of the Vietnamese American Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in programs of Chamber Music Concert In Commemoration Of The Late Conductor and Violinist Do The Phiet (1995 Ebell Theater, 1996,1997, 2000, 2007, 2010,2018), Cung Tiến (1999-Ebell Theater, 2001-Houston, Texas and 2010-La Mirada Theater), Phạm Duy (2002-La Mirada Theater và FootHill College); Phạm Đình Chương (2003-La Mirada Theater; 2004-FootHill College), Dương Thiệu Tước (2008-Rose Center Theater), Lê Văn Khoa (2008-Carpenter Auditorium, Long Beach) and all VAP other program from 1995 . He also is annual guest conductor for Saigon Ensemble program at San Jose. Mr. Nguyen is currently Music Director and Conductor of the Vietnamese- American Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin at the VAP School of Music.