Nov. 1997.
me at 6 months old in my dad's painting "The Solar Eclipse"
Hello everyone! My name is
Nguyen Dinh Dong.
I was born in 1987 in Hanoi to my dad
Nguyen Dinh Dang
and my mom Dinh Thi Thuy Mai.
We came to Japan in 1994 and have been
living here since then.
As many of my classmates, I love to watch
Japanese cartoons, play computer games, listen to J-pop.
I
practice piano and aikido. From time to time I also draw or paint.
With my aikido teacher at Kita-Urawa aikido club (June 1998).
With my mom
(April 1998)
With my dad (Athens, July 1999)
Still-lifes in water-color in 2000 (left) and oil in 2002 (right)
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I made these paintings when I joined the art club
in my junior-high school.
I started to
take private piano lessons at the age of six from a piano professor of
Hanoi Concervatory.
After we arrived in Japan, I continued my piano
lessons under the guidance of my father for six years.
When I entered the
junior high-school, I enrolled in a piano class of Yamaha, where I'm
currently taking piano lessons once per week.
The picture above was taken at the 2001 annual concert given by
piano students and teachers of Yamaha piano classes in our neighbourhood.
The concert was held at the Ima
Hall in Hikarigaoka city (August 2001). In the picture I play Beethoven's
Pathetique Sonata.
I was 17 when I got the black belt (1st dan) in aikido
in my last year of
high school (June, 2005).
Piano rehearsal at RIKEN Suzuki Umetaro Hall (27 July 2005).
I played Chopin's ballade Op. 23 in the next day (28 July 2005) at the
annual concert in Tokyo Ima Hall.
With my mom before the concert at Tokyo Ima Hall (left
photo), and my piano teacher, Seki sensei, on the stage after the concert
(right photo).
(28 July 2005)
At the opening party of
my dad's painting exhibition "The Joy of Imagination"
at
BiCE Tokyo (October 8, 2005)
High-school graduation's day 8/3/2006
With my piano teacher (center) and my dad after the annual
concert at Ima Hall on 23/7/2006.
I played Rachmaninov's Musical
moment Op. 16 No. 4 at the concert.
With my dad attending the wedding party of my piano teacher (10 March 2007).
My last piano performance in Japan before I went to the USA.
My dad (primo piano) and I play Andante from Mozart's piano concert No. 21.
I also played the last movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at the same
concert
(Ima Hall, 31 July 2007)
Departure to the US: My flight takes off from Narita airport (11 August 2007).
Nippon banzai!
One of my architecture homeworks in the spring semester (1/2008).
Below are some of my architecture homeworks of the fall semester 2008 and spring semester 2009
All's well that ends well.
My dad with Prof. Taiji on my right, and my mom on my left
attending my commencement (May 7, 2011) at the Washington State University.
I got my BS in architecture with honor (cum Laude).
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After WSU, I enrolled in the master course at the University of Washington in Seattle (2011 - 2013).
This is my design of the North Seattle Recycling and Community Center,
a project during my first year of master course at UW.
(Click on the picture to see the project in PDF)
With teachers and friends in my class visiting a building under constructions (May, 2011).