A composer and visual artist, Nhat Nguyen has won the 2019 Manhattan Prize String Quartet competition. His works have been performed by Longleash, the Unheard-Of//Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Manhattan School of Music Orchestra, Hanoi New Music Ensemble, Ripieno Ensemble, Ajax Quartet, confluss duo, members of the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music and conducted by Jeff von der Schmidt, Kee Yong Chong and Joseph Carlomagno. His next projects include collaborations with Apply Triangle, James Alexander and Yarn/Wire. In 2016, he was nominated by composer Kim Ngoc Tran to represent Vietnam in the Goethe-Institut Manila Composers Lab for young Southeast Asian composers. Nhat has participated in many musical events, including The Loretto Project (2020-21), the online Collaborative Composition Initiative (2020), Etchings Festival (2019), Hanoi New Music Festival (2018), Fresh Inc Music Festival (2018), the Asia-Europe New Music Festival (2014) held in Hanoi. Nhat earned his Bachelor of Music degree in composition at Manhattan School of Music in 2019, under the tutelage of Dr. Reiko Fueting and Professor Susan Botti. He also previously took lessons with Ton-That Tiet, Prof. P. Q. Phan and Prof. Bernd Asmus.