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      Veronique Ngo-Sach-Hien was born in Paris and started piano lessons with Jacqueline Pouillard at the age of  seven. In 1985, Veronique was admitted to ‘Le Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris’ where she studied  with Christian Manen, Yvonne Loriod, and Michel Beroff for piano and Anne Grapotte for Chamber music. Ultimately she obtained  a ‘Premier Medaille’ for advanced Solfege and first prizes for Piano, Chamber Music and Vocal accompaniment.
   Between 1998 and 2000, Veronique pursued  post graduate studies for Chamber music and, simultaneously, advanced piano with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music in London where she obtained the First prize for the Kathleen Long Chamber Music award as well as the Norris Price award, Second prize for the Kendal Taylor award, and the RCM advenced post graduate diploma with honours.

    Veronique has also performed in master classes given by Paul Bradura- Skoda, Nikita Magaloff and Murray Perahia. As a participant of the course for piano accompaniment directed by Ruben Lifschitz at Royaumont Abbey, Veronique had occasion to accompany the Mezzo Soprano Monique Simon. A further intensive course for accompaniment and Lieder studies was undertaken at the Frankfort Music Hochschule, directed by Rainer Hoffman and Charles Spencer during which she encountered such eminent figures such as Christa Ludwig , Tabea Zimmerman, Noel Lee and Gerard Sousay. 
   Veronique was a semi-finalist in the International Chopin competition in Darmstadt and now appears  as Soloist  and in Chamber music recitals  throughout France and abroad. Among her most memorable concerts were such venues as ‘Salle Olivier Messiaen’, ‘Radio France’, Salles Cortot and Chopin-Pleyel and the Abbeys of Royaumont and Fontmorigny.  Concert performances in the Royaume Uni have included Birmingham town hall, St Martin’s in the Fields, Blackheath Concert Hall, Saint James Piccadilly, The University of Warwick Music Centre and the Edinburgh Festival.

      In Germany and Switzerland, Veronique has appeared in Basler Münster, the Ticino Musica festival and the Stuttgart Music Hochschule. Performances in Italy and Spain have included the’ Theatre della Music in Ancona’, the ‘ Centro Tempo Real in Florence and the ‘Livia’ music festival. Engagements further afield have included concerts in Korea and China in such venues as the Teague Quekory concert hall, the Masan MBC Concert Hall and the universities of Hefei and Anguing.
      Veronique has performed several concertos with the ‘Youth Philharmonic of Seine St Denis’, the ‘London schools symphony orchestra’ and the ‘State Orchestra of Lithuania’. Since year 2000 she has been invited to accompany recitals given by violinist Francesco Parrino, and flautists Susan Milan, Mihi Kim and Odinn Baldvinsson.
       In collaboration with the oboist Christian Schmitt and recently the clarinetist Christian Georgy, Veronique is the co-dedicatee for the ‘Sonata for Oboe and Piano'  and the ' Three Nocturnes for clarinet and piano' by the composer Laurent Riou. She has performed also for several 'world premiers for other composers.
      Veronique is professor of accompaniment, and principal accompanist at the ’Conservatoire de Music’ of Montbeliard, France and also a member of the ‘Interactive Music ensemble,’ a contemporary music workshop directed by the composer Jacopo Baboni-Schilling.