Biography

Violinist Chuong Vu, praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner for his “exquisite playing,” has performed as a soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, and concertmaster throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, with repertoire ranging from early baroque to modern music. The Saigon Times writes that “Chuong Vu is an instrumentalist to treasure. Not only does he play with exquisite tone and superb technical virtuosity, but he also clearly loves the music and loves playing it.”

Chuong is a regular soloist with all major Vietnamese orchestras and has appeared as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Taiwan, performing a wide range of concerto repertoire and popular works for violin and orchestra. Chuong, a dedicated chamber musician, has performed at numerous music festivals, including the Festival Internacional de Musica do Pará, Euro Music Festival and Academy, Yeosu Concert World Chamber Music International Festival, Massa Symphonic Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and Vietnam Connection Music Festival. Among the notable collaborators in concerto and chamber music performances are Shlomo Mintz, Stephanie Chase, Nai-Yuan Hu, Kyung Sun Lee, Cynthia Roberts, Vilmos Szabadi, Chen Xi, Bui Cong Duy, Susan Dubois, Eugene Osadchy, Jeff Bradetich, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Max Levinson, Christoph Hammer, and Paul Leenhouts. His solo and chamber music performances have been live broadcast on Ho Chi Minh City Television, Vietnamese National Television, and Brazilian TV Cultura Canal 2. A prolific orchestral musician, Chuong has served as concertmaster of the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and the VASCAM Ensemble. He has performed as a guest concertmaster with a number of symphony orchestras in the United States and abroad.

Chuong’s interest in new music has led him to collaborate with many contemporary composers, including Yehudi Wyner, Robert Nelson, William Coble, and Jonathan Leshnoff. Composers PQ Phan, Dang Hong Anh, and Vu Viet Anh have all written and dedicated works to him.

Chuong Vu holds a doctorate from the University of North Texas. Dr. Vu is currently a violin professor at the Euro Arts Academy and has previously held teaching positions at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught masterclasses in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. In 2019, he was the Deputy Chair of the Organizing Committee and a jury member at the Vietnam International Music Competition for Violin and Chamber Music. In 2020, he was invited to join the pre-selection jury for the George Enescu International Competition (Romania). In 2023, he was a member of the jury for the X International Violin Competition “Astana-Violin” ‘In Memory of David Oistrakh’ in Kazakhstan. In 2025, he was invited to serve on the jury for the Stefanie Hohl Competition of the Fritz Kreisler Institute at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria) and the 20th International Beethoven Violin Competition in Saint Pölten (Austria).

Dr. Vu is the artistic director of the Vietnam Connection Music Festival and the artistic advisor to the Vietnam International Music Competition. He is actively involved in the process of finding new sponsorship for the organizations, creating music programs to be performed at the festival, inviting international artists to the festival, and judging the competition.