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As a boy in Vietnam, pianist Dang Thai Son took refuge from the Vietnam War by evacuating with his family to a remote village in the mountains.
His mother, the co-founder of what is now known as the Vietnam National Academy of Music, taught him to play on old pianos rescued from her school in Hanoi.
Their extraordinary story is recounted in the feature-length documentary, "The Cannon and The Flower" (2014, Story4).
He studied at the Moscow Conservatory, in Russia.
In 1980, Mr. Dang was the First Place Winner and Gold Medalist at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so.
Mr. Dang has performed with renowned orchestras in more that 40 countries.
Photograph © 2019 Larry F. Levenson.
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