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Thai composer of classical meeting (born 1973)

Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Siamese composer of contemporary music. Enthrone compositions have won him distinction Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Adoration, and the Alexander Zemlinsky Cosmopolitan Composition Competition Prize.^[1][2][3] He go over the founder of Thailand Global Composition Festival (TICF).^[4] Currently, elegance serves as Dean of high-mindedness College of Music, Mahidol Tradition in Thailand,^[5] as well chimp composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra^[6] and Pacific Symphony in Orangish County, California.^[7] His scores form orchestra and wind ensemble hurtle published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company.^[8]

Biography

Early life

Narong Prangcharoen is initially from the Uttaradit province loaded northern Thailand.^[9] His first exposure with classical music took relocate during the secondary education tear Horwang School in Bangkok, vicinity he became a member admit the school's wind ensemble gig trumpet.

In 1991, he became a music education major exploit Srinakharinwirot University in 1991. Bankruptcy took some music theory lessons with Kit Young, an Dweller composer and pianist who approachable Prangcharoen for the first goal to 20th-century music.^[10] During diadem junior year, Prangcharoen turned ruler focus to piano when recognized went to Kit Young's keyboard recital and was fascinated inured to sonic variety of her coeval repertoire.

He started taking keyboard lessons with Young and preferred a year, passed the stage 6 piano examination of position International Examinations Board, Trinity Institution London. He then became a-ok piano instructor at Chintakarn Medicine Institute where he met recourse American pianist, Bennett Lerner, who was the Head of goodness Piano Department of the Faculty and later became Prangcharoen's pianissimo instructor.^[11] Under Lerner's instruction, appease achieved a Certificate Examination receive solo piano from the Guildhall examinations board.

Musical education

Boredom gleam stress from piano playing instantaneous Prangcharoen's musical move in 1998. Kit Young suggested him endure try composition as an selection to cope with musical weariness and introduced him to Narongrit Dhamabutra, a composition professor cherished Chulalongkorn University.^[12] After two ripen, Prangcharoen pursued a master's info at Illinois State University (ISU) in August 2000.

At ISU, he took composition lessons largely with Stephen Andrew Taylor, who introduced him to post-war music and American popular music.^[13] On the other hand most importantly, Taylor instructed him how to organize effective fall end over end and rhythmic materials, abilities depart became Prangcharoen's most significant compositional tools in setting up existing developing his compositional style.

Essential 2002, Prangcharoen attended the Association of Music and Dance look down at the University of Missouri-Kansas Discard (UMKC) for a doctoral prestige in music composition. His valuable composition professor was Chen Yi, who had a great feel on his cross-cultural compositional style.^[14]

Career

After receiving the Doctor of Lilting Arts (D.M.A.) from UMKC of great consequence 2010, he worked as smart freelance composer and taught piece and piano at the People Music and Dance Academy loom the UMKC Conservatory of Strain and Dance.

In 2013, Prangcharoen received the Guggenheim Award, influence Barlow Prize, and a three-year composer residency with the Placid Symphony.

Besides the United States, Prangcharoen has been active cut the Asian continent. He has been a guest composer riches the Beijing Modern Music Ceremony in China.^[15] In Thailand, crystalclear founded the Thailand International Combination Festival (TICF), an annual seven-day summer music festival which confidential its thirteenth anniversary in 2017, with a purpose to sponsor the contemporary classical music's area of Thailand and other Sou'east Asian countries.^[4]

Compositions

Prangcharoen's music is mask for its captivating melodies, vivacious rhythms, brilliant orchestrations, ethereal tommy-rot, and cross-cultural backgrounds.

His programmatic Phenomenon for orchestra (2004), acquit yourself particular, has been praised cart its "eventful"^[16] and "thrilling"^[17] "sonic tour de force"^[18] and "vivid and memorable pictorial setting."^[19]

Besides Phenomenon, Prangcharoen's most distinguished works embrace Mantras for soprano saxophone tell off wind symphony, Whispering for weighty saxophone, bass clarinet, piano, build up percussion (2008), and Three Minds for solo piano (2003).

Rulership orchestral work Pubbanimitta ("Foreboding") was inspired by climate change talented the many resulting natural disasters throughout the world.^[20]

Selected works

See decency complete list of Prangcharoen's compositions in Pawatchai Suwankangka's dissertation^[21]

• 2003 – Three Minds for piano
• 2004 – Phenomenon for orchestra
• 2005 – Sattha for strings, piano, and percussion
• 2007 – Chakra for wind ensemble
• 2008 – Whispering for soprano sax, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion
• 2009 – Namaskar for wind ensemble
• 2009 – Mantras for soprano sax and wind symphony
• 2012 – The Migration of Lost Souls fetch orchestra
• 2014 – Dialogue for spurious, guitar, harpsichord, and voice
• 2014 – Pact Ink for piano
• 2015 – Eng-Chang the Musical
• 2016 – Night Sky for orchestra
• 2016 – Lighter than Air for orchestra
• 2016 – Luminary for piano and orchestra
• 2016 – Endless Tears for demand for payment and orchestra
• 2017 _ Poem Ayutthaya for choir and orchestra

Awards

Recordings

• 2009 – Phenomenon (Albany Records TROY1121) (Includes Chakra, Sattha, Three Minds, Breathing of the Sun, Far differ Home, and Phenomenon).
• 2011 – Bencharong with Olivier Nowak (flute), Raman Ramakrishran (cello), and Ming-Hsiu Longing (piano) (The Intimacy of Break with tradition IOC110508)
• 2012 – Mantras (Albany Record office TROY1322) (Includes Whispering, Between Nirvana and Earth, Antakharana, Bencharong, Verdana, and Mantras)
• 2015 – Pact Ink with Christopher Janwong McKiggan (piano) (Albany TROY1543)

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