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Hear classical guitarist An Tran play from his acclaimed album of Vietnamese guitar music.
An Tran has won more than a dozen international guitar competitions and music awards, including top prizes from Berlin International Guitar Competition, New Orleans International Guitar Competition, and Society of American Musicians Guitar Competition. He has been invited to perform recitals at international concert stages, such as the Guitar Society of Toronto, Córdoba Guitar Society, Segovia Classical Guitar Series, New Orleans International Guitar Festival, Latin-American International Guitar Festival, Bangkok Guitar Society, and Hanoi International Guitar Festival. His debut album, entitled “Stay, My Beloved,” features all Vietnamese guitar music and was included in the 2020 "Recordings of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune and was praised by Classical Guitar Magazine as “an unforgettable journey to a world you’ve probably never been to” with “highly virtuosic passages that display what a gifted guitarist An Tran truly is."
An Tran is the guitar professor at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, University of Illinois Chicago, and Northern Illinois University, where he established the NIU International Guitar Concert Series and serves as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Artopia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making art accessible to everyone on the Southwest side of Chicago.
This concert is part of part of the 2025 Global Gathering Vietnam program series, which is funded by the Bettendorf Public Library Foundation.
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