After touring across Canada as the winner of the Eckhardt-Gramatte National Competition, with a program of contemporary Canadian music, Bang Lang Do discovered the joy of presenting new works in an engaging way to an audience. A specialist performing the music of Ligeti and Messiaen, she was the winner of the grand prize of “Journée de la Musique Française,” Dr. Bang Lang Do studied in France with Monique Deschaussées. A laureate of the Canadian and the Tremplin International Competitions, she won awards from the Canadian Arts Council and made her debut with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio-Canada. She has performed as a soloist with the Conservatory of Quebec, University of Montreal and Houston Civic Orchestras, and presented concerts and master classes in Canada, Portugal, Thailand and Viet Nam. She earned a diploma from London’s Royal College of Music and her Doctorate from the University of Montreal. She received the “Teacher of the Year” award from the Iowa State Music Teacher Association (IAMTA) in 2016 and was the chair of Theory for that state-wide organization (part of MTNA).
After finishing her music doctorate at the University of Montreal, Bang Lang taught at Brandon University in Canada, the Peabody Preparatory of The John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Mahidol University in Thailand, and was an Associate Professor and coordinator of the music ministry at Divine Word College for ten years. She now teaches piano and music theory at Concordia University-Irvine and at Santa Ana College. In California she received an Artist grant from the city of Santa Ana in 2019 to present inter-generational concerts, bringing talented adolescents from the Orange County School of the Arts to seniors in their centers. She served as the director of the National Institute for Asian Languages in Fullerton from 2016 to 2021 and authored a chapter on the Vietnamese diaspora in Multilingual La La Land: Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities, a book published by Routledge. Dr. Do is researching cognitive functions and “deep practice” and recently published articles in the Iowa Music Teacher Journal and the American Music Teacher.