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I first encountered T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat in 1990 during the course of my University and Higher Education studies at the CNSM in Paris. It was the start of a musical adventure that has never ceased to fascinate me. His music was to be the subject of my musicology dissertation at the University of Tours in 1992. This was followed by the publication of my first book by Jobert in 1998 then another by Cig\u2019art in 2010. There were several papers for concert programs and CD booklets, and the creation of two documentary films in 2020 and 2021. Then there were commissioned works, new compositions and recordings of works for harp. I hope to make this site into a place of reference for musiciens, instrumentalists, musicologists and music lovers \u2013 indeed for whoever wishes to discover T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat\u2019s universe. I shall include those documents which have helped to shape my work as a biographer: exchanges with the composer, letters, papers and analyses I have written about his works, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What a privilege it has been, in my life as a musician and indeed my life as a whole, to know a man like T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat, infinitively modest, a composer of magical sounds and colour. His music is full of feeling and finesse, a perfect blend of two cultures, both Vietnamese and European. Throughout these years of friendship and concerts I have come to know the musician as well as the highly cultivated man of culture open to others and the world. From 1978 to the present day and for all time, he embodies the life of the spirit, and life itself, in a difficult world. A miracle of friendship. <\/em>
Charles Frey, violonist

We can\u2019t fail to agree with T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat that music can express feelings and thoughts more powerfully than words! If you feel like this, I encourage you to play his music, thus sharing the \u00ab common vibration \u00bb, the \u00ab fellow-feeling \u00bb that helps us on our spiritual quest.\u00a0<\/em>
Sylvie Beltrando, harpist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am acutely aware of the \u00ab inhabited \u00bb silences in T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat\u2019s music, his painstaking attention to timbre, his long sound meditations and the way in which \u00ab I become one with him \u00bb when he goes to the heart of what it is to be human. This last is consistent with his knowledge and practice of the leading oriental philosophies. Listening to T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat\u2019s music is not only a pleasure but also an initiation to life itself.<\/em>
Mich\u00e8le Reverdy, composer---------------- \n\nTranslation : Lilian and Jean Rossi<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J\u2019ai rencontr\u00e9 T\u00f4n-Th\u00e2t Ti\u00eat en 1990 dans le cadre de mon travail universitaire et de mes \u00e9tudes au CNSM de Paris. Ce sera le point de d\u00e9part d\u2019une aventure musicale qui n\u2019a cess\u00e9 de me passionner jusqu\u2019\u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui. Sa musique sera le sujet de mon m\u00e9moire de Ma\u00eetrise de Musicologie en 1992 \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurencebancaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}