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If you’ve seen one of our orchestras in full force, heard our choirs sing in harmony, or watched one of our musical or dramatical productions fueled by passion, creativity, quick wit and powerful performances, you’ll understand why Performing Arts at BIS HCMC is something special. These experiences rival professional productions on the global stage.

We are proud to announce the achievements of ten BIS HCMC students who have been recognised with the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards and Oxford AQA Go Further Awards 2024. These prestigious awards celebrate the highest performers in Cambridge and Oxford IGCSE exams across a wide range of subjects. This year, BIS HCMC students have excelled in Mathematics, English Language and Literature, Art and Design, Mandarin Chinese, Biology, Music, and Foreign Languages, showcasing the diversity of talent within our school.

On Friday 8th June, 50 of our Key Stage 2 and 3 students were involved in the 2nd Ho Chi Minh City FOBISIA music event.

Ms Astley joined other Nord Anglia Education teachers from around the world to learn more about the Juilliard Drama Curriculum coming to the British International School, Ho Chi Minh City from August 2018.

This week we have been lucky enough to have been visited by Paul Murphy, our Juilliard Curriculum Mentor. This is now Paul’s fifth visit to BIS HCMC where he has met many of our staff and students.

Our Year 11 and 13 IGCSE and IB musicians are practising hard in preparation for their final coursework performances. As a celebration of their hard work, we would like to invite you to the annual IB IGCSE Music recital, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday 7th and 8th February at 18.00 in the theatre.

The Patterson/Sutton Duo came to perform at all three of our campuses on Thursday 23rd November 2017. They played to the whole school and as well as hearing their fantastic cello and guitar playing they also answered some of the questions our Primary school children had thought of in their music lessons as well providing masterclasses for our Secondary students.

After almost 3 months of rehearsals and preparation we are approaching the performance of this year’s KS3 production; Antigone.

On Sunday the 5th of November, 6 international schools in Ho Chi Minh City, including 70 musicians from BIS HCMC came together to perform at the annual charity fundraising event; Saimuse.

We are excited to announce that on Thursday 23rd November our students will be visited by Juilliard Alumni Guitar and Cello Duo Dr. Kimberley Patterson and Dr. Patrick Sutton! The duo will be performing for both our Primary and Secondary school students before holding a live question and answer session.

Music teachers from BIS HCMC recently attended the 2017 FOBISIA Music Teachers’ Conference as part of their ongoing professional development.

This week we were able to celebrate the perseverance and the commitment of all of our LAMDA and ABRSM students in assembly.

We are very excited to announce that on Friday, 21st April we will welcome an accomplished violinist, and Alumna of The Juilliard School, to perform at BIS HCMC.

On Monday 28th November we were treated to a recital by the concert pianist Quang Hong Luu. It was a great privilege for BIS HCMC to host Mr Luu who is normally based in Sydney, Australia.

The top scoring 35 Students from the ABRSM Examinations in June were invited to perform their favourite piece at the High Scorers’ Concert, which BIS was proud to host on Saturday 19th September.

Our students are always up for a challenge and this week they showed how well they rise to them by performing the school’s first Shakespeare production in the original text, ‘Romeo and Juliet’. This is the third collaboration between the English and drama department, aiming to bring to life the plays the students study in English. The production explored the themes of the conflict between the generations, and the oppression of women. The cast, from Years 10 and 12, were outstanding with dazzling performances in both year groups