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Vietnamese national wins US piano contest
05/17/2004 -- 11:56(GMT+7)
May 17 (VNA) - A Vietnamese piano student has defeated contestants from European and American countries to win first prize at a contest for piano soloists held in New Jersey, the United States.
Vu Ngoc Linh now is a student at a US university of music after receiving a full scholarship. He was born in 1982 and started learning piano when he was 6. Before he was sent to the US, Linh studied at a school for talented young musicians in Moscow, Russia and then at the Ha Noi Conservatoire.
Linh has been invited to perform with the US Rowan Symphony Orchestra and also to play at the Music Festival in Minnesota in July.-Enditem