Lê Tuấn Hùng
Lê Tuấn Hùng is a composer, performer and author, specialising in Vietnamese music and the experimental music of contemporary Australia. He has written widely on Vietnamese performing arts and is regarded as an international authority in Vietnamese musicology.
He has performed widely across Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and New Zealand. His compositions have been recorded on Move Records, ABC Music and NMA Records.
He holds academic qualifications in several disciplines, including a PhD in Musicology from Monash University.
Lê Tuấn Hùng is featured on the following titles
Scent of Time
Six Australian composers take Asian instruments and voices beyond their own traditions. From dan tranh and sheng to shakuhachi and erhu, the programme is cross-cultural concert music at its most exploratory.
Echoes of Ancestral Voices
Le Tuan Hung and Dang Kim Hien present traditional Vietnamese classical and folk music on Echoes of Ancestral Voices, following their earlier Move disc Landscapes of Time.
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Landscapes of Time
Contemporary sound art of Vietnam: evocative images and haunting effects that stay with the listener. New directions in sound art with Vietnamese colour, drawn from poems, ideas and spirituality.
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Musical Transfiguration
An acoustic journey across Vietnamese soundscapes, from majestic court music and the subtle flow of lullabies to chanted poetry, classical chamber music and lively village festival songs.
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Performing as Back to Back Zithers
Back to Back Zithers are four distinguished solo composer-performers who enjoy sharing each other's traditions and skills in the process of making a new Australian music. Since 1988 they have combines their original ideas with musical thoughts from Vietnam, West Java, mediaeval France and Italy in new compositions which transcend the boundaries of East and West.
Quivering String
Four composer-performers of Back to Back Zithers weave Vietnamese, Sundanese and mediaeval European strands into new Australian chamber music for zithers, flutes, voice and found sound.
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Compositions by Lê Tuấn Hùng also appear on
On the Wings of a Butterfly
Cross-cultural music by Australian composers. This 2005 collection from Lê Tuấn Hùng gathers works by Ros Bandt, Brigid Burke, Warren Burt, Deborah Kayser and others, and was nominated for an ARIA Award.
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Lê Tuấn Hùng also appears on
Footsteps
The sound of feet on the earth’s surface is a reminder of how location shapes our lives. Ros Bandt’s journey of place, from Western Australia and Florida to suburban Melbourne, is unlike anything else on record.
Lê Tuấn Hùng is a member of
Back to Back Zithers
Back to Back Zithers are four distinguished solo composer-performers who enjoy sharing each other's traditions and skills in the process of making a new Australian music. Since 1988 they have combines their original ideas with musical thoughts from Vietnam, West Java, mediaeval France and Italy in new compositions which transcend the boundaries of East and West.