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He is helping me start my Chinese lessons, I am learning at distance as there is no Chinese teacher at the Lycee Descartes. I am still doing well at school this quarter, my friends say "I am a robot" and it makes me laugh. Actually, it is easy to get good notes, you just need to work a lot and know well your lessons. With the internet, I also try to find more information about the topics we are discussing. I understand why my Dad decided that I would go to the French school and learn English at a young age. If I knew only Khmer, I would not have access to books, to knowledge on the internet and other things.

I put the article of F Magazine in the photo gallery. I look older than I am! The thing I liked most was the photo session, because everybody was so relaxed (especially Franco and Mao, they are always clowning around), the weather was cool and we enjoyed the garden. We had sandwich-pate et soft drinks, miamm... so good. In the photo gallery, there are also some photos that Dad took of us when preparing for the photo shots.]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#44 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#43
They train children but also adults in musical instruments and in choir. Louise and Patrick are musicians themselves and have three daughters who are musicians. Many years ago, they started a musical school in Benin. I think great ideas come up from meeting so many people at the Atelier des Trois Tambours. So two years ago, Louise and Patrick came to Phnom Penh to meet with friends here, and we were introduced to each other. Now they would love to start a school here as well.

To see if it is possible to start such school, we are helping them put up a training workshop and invite children (from 8 to 15 years old) and music teachers to come for training from February 20th to March 2nd, 2010. Teachers attend the full day training and children come in the afternoon.

If you are a musician or a teacher, contact my dad at bosbapanh@online.com.kh or 855-12 634 811 to get more information. You have to apply before February 12th (but if you apply late but you are really motivated, I am sure Dad will find a way for you).

Join and we will play / learn together, lots of fun and hard work. This will be a great start to have a music school for children in Cambodia.]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#43 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#42 http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#42 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#41
Neak Mê
Over the mountains, Across the rivers
Through the thunder - Neak Mê
The wind brings back our words
Our screams - Neak Mê
At sunset the junk leaves the port
The grand river
Kompong Tonle whimpers
Neak Mê
Now the temple is beyond repair
No roof left, all swallowed by fire.
To meditate too much
On the passing seasons
We store up years
Since this early morning of April
When they arrived
Yelling, singing, aiming
Writing on walls
They shot and they wrote
Words that made us tremble.
Neak Mê
The vines of roses grow from these stains

And on these walls, blood-red petals
Break out every April
The roses climb among the bruises
And turn so red that they pierce us.
Neak Mê
The well is dry and empty - Neak Mê
Rice fields are burnt by the sun
During the parched season of April
Counting the rythm of the seasons
Dozens of years pile up
Since these early hours of April
When they arrived
Their chests covered with roses
Like deaf-mutes
Barefoot, with tense bodies
In their fiery eyes
Begins the strange smile
of the powerful - Neak Mê
One can guess the trails of blood
So violently red on these wall
But these are only roses.
Neak Mê, my love.]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#41 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#40




I liked the stage, it was as if we were in a garden, with fifty freshly cut banana trees bearing their fruits, palm leaves, coconut branches, more than one thousand lotus flowers. I did not had the feeling we were in Chaktomuk. On the sides, there were projections of old postcards from the early 20th century.



It took us a lot of work to prepare this one, so many rehearsals and I sung 22 songs. That’s almost the double of what I did in 2007.





We have been rehearsing for six months three times a week with one big gathering every Sunday. Dad assembled 5 orchestras for this concert: khru Yon Theara mohori traditional group, khru Soy Saret pinpeat traditional orchestra, Mao Moni Brass Band, Put Thea folklore group and our semi-classical band. Em Theay and her family oversaw the dance scene of Sibxy, my elder brother.



I like working with the khru (it means “masters”), they taught me what they know with a lot of affection. They also provided a lot of attention for Panhlauv, my younger brother, who is the younger among us.



We were lucky that a big hotel let us use their ballroom for our Sunday rehearsal. We were about 100 every time.



Sponsors provided lunch but once, we also used the hotel staff canteen and it was so fun. I will miss these Sundays with all the artists. We were relaxed and had really a good time. Sibxy has been for once able to join us. We chose the date of the concert to match his holidays (Chinese National Day). In this photo, he is dancing "Krong Reap adbucting Neang Seida". Khru Soy Saret and Khru Tiara mohori orchestras did marvels, especially ta Pruong playing drums.



We have launched during the concert the third CD “La Vie en Rose”, it has a nice song booklet that Jojo and Dino from Phibious designed for me.So many friends helped us during this concert.

But what I like most is still the end of the concert”¦ because now we can go on a week end at the seaside with all the musicians.



For me the only thing that went wrong during the concert is that our maid stole my laptop on the day of the performance when we were too busy. All my school lessons are on there and I use it to compose music. Two years ago when we were preparing for the concert, Dad has his video camera stolen but has been able to recover at the pawn shop against $400. I don’t understand why they do like this. These are people who are so close to us, see us work so hard”¦ but still have the cold heart to steal.

What I am preparing now is a trip to Singapore for this December. I am one of the two Cambodian athletes selected to join the Singapore 2010 Friendship Camp which is part of the Youth Olympic Games. More than 170 countries will send their representatives. As for my next big concert, I think maybe in two years. For now, I think it would be nice if we could play “Our Mothers” in some ASEAN cities.

]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#40 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#39 2-HOUR LIVE PERFORMANCE OF SOPRANO BOSBAPANH
“OUR MOTHERS”
AND LAUNCH OF 3RD CD ALBUM

CHAKTOMUK HALL
FRIDAY 9TH OCTOBER 2009 — 7:00 — 9:00 PM

Contact
Panh Meng Heang
La Companie bosbaPANH
bosbapanh@online.com.kh — www.bosbapanh.com

Phnom Penh, 27 August 2009 - bosbaPANH, Khmer coloratura soprano age 12, will give a unique two-hour performance at Chaktomuk Hall, Phnom Penh, on Friday 9th October 2009. She will launch her third CD Album “La Vie en Rose”.

This is the third concert of bosbaPANH, after the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in 2006 to launch her first album “ Phnom Penh” at the age of 9 and Chaktomuk Hall in 2007 for her second album “SrorMay” when she was 10 years old.

The Concert “Our Mothers” is celebrating the love and dedication of mothers. As bosbaPANH enters adulthood she remembers her grand mother’s role in her family, is called to observe the life and responsibilities of Cambodian women.

Set in the mid 20th century, the story starts with an exploratory journey of a family of teachers from their province to the capital city of the Kingdom. The French are debating about their civilizing mission in Indochina and this family will need to relocate. This is the first time the Mother has traveled, and her discoveries in Phnom Penh are relived in a number scenes through pictures, music, dance and song that recreate what the Mother experienced in traveling up the slow moving Mekong to Kampuchea Achariya, the Kingdom of Wonder. At the end of the journey, the Mother will need to decide if the family will start a new life in Phnom Penh.

bosbaPANH interprets a repertoire songs, images and dance to describe the mother’s first journey. The scenes evolve from the hopelessness of war, to the slow moving river and stately sugar palm trees, to happy children singing on their way to rural school. As the boat moves upstream, she is charmed by the tranquility of lush, green rice fields. On arriving in Phnom Penh, she glances at the beautiful women dancing the ramvong in a park, on a Sunday afternoon. She sees how love can transform women and also shatter them when it fails. Through these different portraits, the concert is finally a tribute to mothers, the foundation of our families and our society.

The concert will include a range of classical pieces such as Concierto Di Aranjuez, Ave Maria; the elegant songs of King Father Sihanouk; traditional mohori Khmer lullabies, and other eternal songs from an international repertoire such as la La Vie en Rose.

The highlight of the concert is a piece of Ramayana dance where her brother Sibxy Na Panh dances the Yeak, the evil giant, while bosbaPANH sings. The act tells the story of Krong Reap, aducting Princess Sita to be his wife. Sibxy Na Panh expresses the violence of the Powerful when they want a woman or gain more power.

The concert features also happy scenes with songs from the legendary Khmer musicians Sin Sisamouth, Pen Ron, Ros Sereysothea. Among the eternal Khmer pop songs are: Mlop Po Bakheing (Under the Banyan Tree of Bakeng), Vea Cha Chab Meas (Golden Bird), Apsara (King Father Norodom Sihanouk).

bosbaPANH surprises with her dramatic rendition of foreign songs interpreted in Khmer. Among these: La Vie En Rose, a 1946 love song by French singer Edith Piaf which has been interpreted by famous artists worldwide from Louis Armstrong to Luciano Pavarotti and Grace Jones. Piaf’s life symbolizes both resilience in the face of adversity and the triumph of talent and love; and Summertime, an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The song soon became a popular jazz standard. bosbaPANH uses this languid jazz melody for a daughter crying over her mother who left to be a bar girl.

The two-hour performance is organized by La Compagnie bosbaPANH with the support of Cambodia Mekong Bank Public Limited (MekongBank) and American Express Company.

Our thanks also go to: Almond Hotel, Feeling Home, DYSCOPE design; InnoAds, Magazine la Reine Fashion and Lifestyle, International Institute of Cambodia, Canadia Bank, T&C restaurants, Somarita Restaurant, Naga World, PPMl outdoor advertising, Kambuja Fashion, Societe Concessionnaire des Aeroports, Phibious Advertising Company.

Tickets for the concert are available at Monument Books, T&C outlets, BB World, Pizza World. Exclusive seating 15$; Premium Seating: 10$ and general seating $5.

More about our partners:

MekongBank
MekongBank has been an important member of the Cambodian financial community since 1994. With branches and offices in Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, and Siem Reap, we provide a full range of banking services to businesses and individuals throughout the country. MekongBank was the first financial institution in Cambodia to issue credit cards in its own name and remains a leader in that fast growing sector of the banking business. MekongBank is the exclusive issuer of the American Express Card in Cambodia and the only commercial bank in the country to offer all four major international cards. MekongBank is also a founding member of the Easy Cash domestic ATM network, which provides convenient access to banking services for a large number of Cambodian banking customers.


American Express
American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company, founded in 1850. It is a world leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Checks, travel and business services. Since 1996, American Express has been pursuing a strategy of opening its merchant network and card product portfolio to third party issuers around the world. By leveraging its global infrastructure and the powerful appeal of the brand, American Express has gained even broader reach for its network worldwide. American Express has now established 129 partnerships in 129 markets across the world.]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#39 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#38



It was two months that we were rehearsing and the songs that we selected were quite different from what we did before. All the songs were about love and we had only a few musicians from our band: Thach and Samnang (Violin), Kiry (guitar), Vatana (Flute), Sreang (Clarinet).



It is a recital after all, not a big band performance. Laurent, a French classical pianist and Dimple, a Nepalese musician, joined us for this adventure.


Laurent helped shape the recital, it was a very classical style interpretation of songs from the Khmer popular repertoire. There were many first times in the recital: Dad adapted the lyrics of La Vie en Rose in Khmer for me to sing; Chab Meas, a favorite song from Sin Sisamout, was adapted in English by my mom and we have performed for the first time Concierto de Aranjuez with five Khmer guitarists. My mom’s friend Rosanna, who is of Spanish culture, said she particularly liked this part of our performance, so I am happy we did well.




Panhlauv was a hit with his drumming and his red "bretelles".


I sang for the first time also a Nepalese song, Phool Kho Angkhana, a prayer song composed and interpreted by a Ani Choying Dolman, a Nepalese nun. I can imagine the infinite landscape of the Everest.

The money we collect will go to grand mother Em Theay and her family. There is Preap, who is Sibxy’s master; Grand mother Em Theay; Naroath, my voice teacher, Narim and Dona, my dance teachers and Naren, my mohori teacher.



We said to them that with the money, they must buy a new flute for Vatana, who has just married Naroath, and is our band leader. He is a flutist and teach flute. Without a flute, he can not be a musician and make money ! I hope also that soon I can go and sleep in their new house. Their old house was burnt down three months ago. Some neighbors burnt some incense sticks in the night and pfuffffff”¦ 16 houses in the neighborhood disappeared. I still can remember the nights I spent there. That’s sad. She is also our “Sombat Cheat” our national treasure. That's why we did this recital.

I think the dinner for the guests went well. The father of Maylis who helped us prepare the event, everybody calls him Papa Alain, created a dish with my name. He asked me what kind of food I liked. I mentioned French cheese, the lobster from Kompong Som, small ricefield shrimps and also salmon and chocolate. He created "Duo de Saumon Bosbapanh" with ginger sauce. The dinner was composed of: Consomme Verdi, Salmon Duo Bosbapanh; Lamb chops with moussaka and desert was a mango and passion mousse with music instruments in chocolate. I am not sure if this dish will ever become as famous as the steak with Kampot pepper but that's just nice to have a dish created for me for this evening.


So what's next ? I still have a month of school. For the summer holidays, we did plan to go to the Nepalese side of the Everest, but it is a mess there, their prime minister resigned and everybody wants to be a chief, we may not be safe in going there. So, we will just stay in Phnom Penh, we have to prepare for my next concert which will be on October 9, 2009. We are not sure if we will do it in Chaktomuk yet, it is too small but we can’t really do elsewhere as there are no concert hall in Phnom Penh.

]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#38 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#37 FRIDAY 5TH JUNE 2009 — 7:00 PM

The arts have an amazing capacity to bring people together for altruistic purposes. French restaurant, Topaz, and bosbaPANH, Khmer Coloratura Soprano, age 12, are collaborating to raise funds for Cambodian arts and artists on Friday June 5, 2009 at 7 pm.

The fundraising recital was initiated when bosbaPANH heard about the difficulties facing a family of Cambodian classical artists whose house burned down when fire swept their neighborhood.

To help these artists and promote Cambodian culture, Topaz Restaurant is enthusiastically embracing this project with bosbaPANH. Using the launch of her 2007 Concert VCD, bosbaPANH will give a recital to raise fund to be donated to the Cambodian Foundation for the Arts.

The Cambodian Foundation for the Arts aims at promoting all the arts in Cambodia as well as providing mutual assistance to artists in need. This year, the Foundation will support the family of Em Theay, her daughter Thong Kim An and her grand-daugther Noam Naroath. In late March, these three generations of Ramayana dancers and singers lost everything they had in the fire, including photos of performances and valuable costumes, musical instruments, recordings and sheet music.

Em Theay, 72, has been featured in numerous Cambodian dance books and TV documentaries, and is one of only 10 percent of Royal Court dancers to survive the Khmer Rouge. Between 1975 and 1979, she lost her husband, her three sisters and five of her children. The fire is one more tragedy in her life.

“What’s even sadder,” says bosbapanh, who has been studying Khmer dance with Em Theay and singing with her grand-daugther, Naroath, “is they do not even have the right to rebuild. They don’t have any paper saying they lived on the second floor. They lived there for 20 years. The owners of the flat below are creating all kinds of difficulties to them. This should not happen to people who should be considered as our “National Treasures”.

To help Em Theay and her daughters and launch the Cambodian Foundation for the Arts, bosbapanh. will give a recital of popular Cambodian and international classics. Topaz Restaurant’s Executive Chef Alain Darc will compose an innovative dinner with signature dishes in harmony with the recital.

Accompanying bosbaPANH will be Topaz’s in-house pianist, bosbapanh”˜s group of classical musicians and her accomplished younger brother, flutist Panhlauv, age 8.

The concert, which is titled La Vie en Rose is designed to invoke the elegant and tranquil world of Phnom Penh in the 1960’s when it was hailed as the Paris of the East. La Vie en Rose is a 1946 love song by French singer Edith Piaf which has been interpreted by famous artists worldwide from Louis Armstrong to Luciano Pavarotti and Grace Jones. Piaf’s life symbolizes both resilience in the face of adversity and the triumph of talent and love. This is the message of hope that bosbapanh and Topaz management wish to convey in these times of crisis.

The concert will include a range of music from the elegant songs of King Father Sihanouk to traditional mohori Khmer lullabies, eternal songs from an international repertoire and bosbaPANH’s own rendition of La Vie en Rose.

Tickets for the recital and dinner are $100 per person and include a cocktail reception, a gourmet 3-course dinner and wine. All proceeds will be donated to the Cambodian Foundation for the Arts which will help Em Theay and her talented daughters build a new home and hope for a better future ”¦ to see “La vie en rose”.

Concert bookings are essential — seating is limited
Topaz Restaurant
182 Norodom boulevard.
Email:manager@topaz-restaurant.com
Ph: 023 221 622; 012 346 555


MORE INFORMATION
Cambodian Foundation for the Arts. The Association is a not-for-profit, non political, cultural and professional organization which aims to promote Cambodian arts and music and to advance the public’s understanding and appreciation of music and the arts. It also aims at providing mutual assistance to artists in need. Presided by Luu Meng, the Foundation was recently established by a group of benefactors from Cambodia and overseas caring about Khmer artists and wishing to promote both classical works and to encourage new creations.

Topaz Restaurant and Piano Bar is Cambodia’s most renowned French restaurant. Opened in 1997, the restaurant has developed a sterling reputation for fine dining through a decade of excellence. Continuing to strive for excellence and accommodate more of its patrons, Topaz relocated in 2007 to a stunning, spacious property at 182 Norodom Boulevard. This custom-built establishment includes a dining room that seats 116, 4 VIP rooms, a terrace under the stars that accommodates 150, a piano bar with a nightly lounge act, a wine cellar boasting 5,000 bottles and Phnom Penh’s only Cuban cigar room. Continuing more than a decade of innovation, Topaz offers authentic but constantly evolving French food in a sophisticated yet pleasant setting. More about Topaz at: www.topaz-restaurant.com

In collaboration with the Cambodian Foundation for the Arts, Topaz is launching a series of regular musical events that will run throughout the year. The fund-raising event La Vie en Rose will be held annually.]]> http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#37 Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Khmer Coloratura Soprano sings Sin Sisamouth and Norodom Sihanouk - La Compagnie BosbaPANH - News http://bosbapanh.com/news.html#33
At the beginning, he did not want to take dancing lessons, he said to Mom he wants now to be a writer. The first weeks of his stay, he played only piano, hours of the same exercice. Maybe he also wants to become the next Lang Lang, famous Chinese pianist who lives now in the US. Finally, Dad had to threaten him so he went back to his dancing lessons.



Why did he changed his mind ? He has been dancing since the year of 6. That's so beautiful when he dances.

During his holidays in Phnom Penh, there was some contemporary dance training organized an NGO with the visit of a master dancer from Senegal, Germaine Acogny. Sibxy was not part of the trainees, because you have to be adopted by these NGOs to be invited. But they advertised all the sessions so Dad sent him to watch and see what he can learn. It was a one-week training.

Dad asked him what he learnt. I heard that even though he showed up everyday, nobody asked why he was interested or if he was a dancer or if he would like to become one. Who would go like this for a week, just sit in a corner and observe? I think only dancers would be interested. Sibxy said that actually the organizers came once to talk to him and he felt they wanted him to go away. I don't know why they advertise then. Isn't the training organized to help Cambodian dancers ? Why did they scold my brother who just came to learn?



Sibxy finally resumed his dancing lessons. He has do to a section of the 2009 concert with me, where I sing and he dances. It is based on drums only. He practiced alone with the master from Sovanna Phum, for 3-hours. That's hard work, especially his knees still hurt him.

Even with a t-shirt and the pants he used for his kung fu exercice, that's really nice when he dances. Hope he does not change his mind again when he is back. If we can find a bit of money, Sibxy could maybe go and learn from Germaine, the master dancer from Senegal, and learn drums with Oumar Fandy Diop, who were teaching for this NGO. The choregraphy for Sibxy during the concert is not finalized yet but I know that my dad is very much influenced by Maurice Bejart and Germaine was a student of this French master dancer. Germaine and her husband Helmut have a school called "Ecole des Sables" and it looks so great. The school is In the middle of the savannah with baobabs.

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