Opening concert at the Janáček May festival 2009

Dang Thai Son, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire, took the music world by storm in 1980 when he won 1st prize and the Gold Medal at the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Since that time he has had a glittering career performing at leading concert venues all over the world. He has performed with some of the world's most distinguished orchestras, such as the Leningrad Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle in Berlin, NHK Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, and the Viennese and Zurich chamber orchestras. He has performed under such celebrated conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Pinchas Zukerman, Mariss Jansons, Iván Fischer, Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitri Kitayenko, Jiří Bělohlávek, Pavel Kogan, Jerzy Maksymiuk and Sakari Oramo. At a New Year concert in 1995 he teamed up with Yo Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Kathleen Battle and Mstislav Rostropovich in a project put together by the Japanese broadcasting company NHK. In January 1999 he was the only foreign artist to be invited to Warsaw to appear at the opening gala concert celebrating the Year of Chopin. He has been an external professor at the Kunitachi Music College in Tokyo since 1987 and he recently also began teaching at Montreal University.