Biography

Internationally acclaimed Dan Bau player, Pham Duc Than was born in Ninh Binh, North Vietnam in 1956. Displaying a remarkable musical aptitude as a child, Duc Thanh was already playing the Dan Bau (the monochord) as well as the Dan Tranh (16-string zither) and the Dan Nhi (two-string fiddle) at the age of six. In 1974, Duc Thanh moved to Hanoi where he studied at a popular traditional theatre school and joined the leading Hat Cheo theatre group as a Dan Bau player. After attending Saigon's Research Centre for Music, he went on to become one of the country's top Dan Bau players of traditional and contemporary music.
In August 1990, Duc Thanh and his wife, singer Lieu Nguyet Lan, left Vietnam and went to live in Germany for several years before emigrating to Canada in 1996.
Today, the Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist is recognised as of the world's leading exponents of traditional Vietnamese music.

Concerts & Festivals:

Rythm of the world -Concert-Musiques et Traditions du monde...

• Festival:Rythm of the world
• Festival: musiques et traditions du monde
• Musique classique...
• Radio NPR at Seattle (USA)
• Radio Canada (FM 100.7& FM 95.10)montreal
• Televion TV5 Canada &ZDF(Germany)
• CBC Toronto
• Concert in Univesity- Mc Gill 
• Show at Canada in (London, Sherbrook, Toronto, Shawinigan, Chicoutimi, Hull, Ottawa...)
• Festival - RYTHMES D’ASIA
• MUSICAL HERITGE OF LA FRANCOPHONIE
• FRANCOPHONE DE MONTRÉAL
• ASIA MUSIC FESTIVAL
• TELETHON
• MUSIC ET TRADITIONS DU MONDE
• FESTIVAL FOLKORIQUE
• Concert for Vietnamese in: Seattle, Texas Houston, California, Florida, Philadelphia, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Dalat, Berlin, Paris, Munchen, stugart, Ben, Oslo, Franfurt, Achen, Hanover, Amsterdam...