尊室安

Tôn Thất An is a Vietnamese composer born in Paris and based in Taipei since 2010. His work is centred in Asia, where he composes for the stage and works with numerous artists, singers and visual artists. A film buff from an early age, he has in recent years supported with his music, the emergence of a new wave in Vietnamese cinema, with films such as Ash Mayfair's ‘The Third Wife’ (2018) and ‘Skin of Youth’ (2025), Leon Lê's ‘Song Lang’ (2018) and ‘Ky Nam Inn’ (2025), Trần Thanh Huy's ‘Ròm’ (2019) and Bùi Thạc Chuyên's ‘Glorious Ashes’ (2022). Film projects soon would come to him from all over Asia, including Naomi Kawase's ‘True Mothers’ (2020), Edmund Yeo's adaptation of Banana Yoshimoto's short story ‘Moonlight Shadow’ (2022), Chu Chun Teng's ‘Eel’ (2025) in Taiwan, Lee Yong Chao's ‘Rain in 2020’ in Myanmar, or Rein Maychaelson's ‘Sammi, who can detach his Body Parts’ (2025) in Indonesia. Also passionate about dance, he has significantly collaborated with Jo Kanamori and his company Noism, but also with Chinese choreographer Gang Peng, Nguyễn Tấn Lộc in Vietnam, and with Sheu Fang-Yi and Huang Yi in Taiwan. In 2013, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra commissioned him a symphonic tale, ‘The Legend of Thánh Gióng’, which was premiered at the Berlin Philharmonie Hall. In 2015, he launched and directed the first edition of ‘[FEEL] in/out’ in Saigon, an immersive art experience that gives a voice to independent Vietnamese artists, mixing performing arts, film, photography, installations, music, dance and fine arts. He co-wrote and produced half of Sam Liao’s album ‘Forgotten West’, which earned him a Golden Melody in 2019 in Taiwan. A singer-songwriter himself, his first studio album was ‘Circlesong’ (2005), followed by ‘Hyperbody’ (2010).