Lê Tuấn Hùng (born 1960 in Vietnam) is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist. Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia National Web Archive Pandora. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled performer of the đàn tranh, a Vietnamese zither,World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific : the Rough Guide, edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, volume 2, new edition (2000) . p. 268. he plays traditional Vietnamese music as well as cross-cultural and experimental music. His compositions have been created for a wide range of instruments, ensembles and media. Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. A number of his compositions combine Vietnamese instruments with Indonesian and European Renaissance and Medieval instruments.AAF Projects Composer: Le Tuan Hung. Performer: Australian Chinese Music Ensemble. Song Ngoc Water Puppetry Troupe and Canberra Youth Wind Ensemble, directed by Roland Manderson, puppetry director Nhu Van Hng, composer Le Tuan Hung.
He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in Music from Monash University.Dan Tranh Music of Vietnam : Traditions and Innovations. Melbourne, Tokyo : Australia Asia Foundation, 1998. Back cover, and dust jacket. (hard back); (paperback) He is married to Dang Kim Hien (Ðặng Kim Hiền).
Bibliography Le, Tuan Hung. "Mindfulness of hearing : hearing places from a non-western perspective" in Hearing Places : Sound, Place, Time and Culture. Edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Le, Tuan Hung. Dan Tranh Music of Vietnam : Traditions and Innovations. Melbourne, Tokyo : Australia Asia Foundation, 1998. (hard back); (paperback) Le, Tuan Hung. "Vietnamese Traditions" in Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. General editors: John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell. Sydney: Currency House in association with Currency Press, 2003. Le, Tuan Hung. "Vietnamese Music" in Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Edited by Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. Le, Tuan Hung. "Popular music of Vietnam" in Music and Popular Culture: Asia and Australia : Unit Study Guide. Clayton, Vic.: Monash Open Learning, 1995. Le, Tuan Hung. "The Dynamics of Change in Hue and Tai Tu Music between 1890 and 1990" in Music-cultures in Contact : Convergences and Collisions. Edited by Margaret J. Kartomi and Stephen Blum. Sydney : Currency Press, 1994. Le, Tuan Hung."Composition and Performing Process in Hue and Southern Chamber Music" in Nhac Viet Journal of Vietnamese Music, 1992, 1(2):43-60. Le, Tuan Hung."Music and Politics: A Socio-Political Interpretation of Significant Aspects of Compositions for the Zither Dan Tranh in South Vietnam since 1975" in New Perspectives on Vietnamese Music. Edited by Phong T. Nguyen. [New Haven, Ct.] : Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1992.
Discography Albums + List of albums Title Details Best Seats in the House! Released: 1992 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: NMA Formats: CD Quivering String Released: 1992 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: Move Record Formats: CD Musical Transfiguration : a Journey across Vietnamese Soundscapes Released: 1993 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: Move Record Formats: CD Landscapes of Time: Contemporary Sound Art of Vietnam Released: 1996 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: Move Record Formats: CD Echoes of Ancestral Voices : Traditional Music of Vietnam Released: 1997 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: Move Record Formats: CD Scent of time : Australian Compositions for Asian Instruments and Voices Released: 2002 Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora. Label: Move Record Formats: CD On the Wings of a Butterfly Released: 2005 ARIA Music Awards of 2005 nomination for Best World Music Album, Fine Arts Award Label: Move Record Formats: CD
Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
! |- | 2005 | On the Wings of a Butterfly | Best World Music Album | | ARIA Award previous winners.
References
External links Le Tuan Hung official site
Le Tuan Hung's archived official site at Australia's National Web Archive Pandora
Listening Audio of compositions by Le Tuan Hung, from Le Tuan Hung official site List of nominees - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au 14 Sep 2005 Le Tuan Hung et al - On The Wings Of A Butterfly (Move Records).