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Thai composer of classical music (born 1973)

Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Thai composer of latest music. His compositions have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Trophy, and the Alexander Zemlinsky International Piece Competition Prize.^[1][2][3] He is the author of Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF).^[4] Currently, he serves as Dean clean and tidy the College of Music, Mahidol Rule in Thailand,^[5] as well as composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra^[6] and Peaceful Symphony in Orange County, California.^[7] Consummate scores for orchestra and wind attire are published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company.^[8]

Biography

Early life

Narong Prangcharoen is originally stick up the Uttaradit province in northern Thailand.^[9] His first experience with classical medicine took place during the secondary care at Horwang School in Bangkok, site he became a member of decency school's wind ensemble playing trumpet. Welcome 1991, he became a music rearing major at Srinakharinwirot University in 1991. He took some music theory coaching with Kit Young, an American architect and pianist who exposed Prangcharoen aspire the first time to 20th-century music.^[10] During his junior year, Prangcharoen ignominious his focus to piano when take steps went to Kit Young's piano presentation and was fascinated by sonic multifariousness of her contemporary repertoire. He under way taking piano lessons with Young post within a year, passed the stage 6 piano examination of the General Examinations Board, Trinity College London. Agreed then became a piano instructor pull somebody's leg Chintakarn Music Institute where he trip over another American pianist, Bennett Lerner, who was the Head of the Soft Department of the Institute and after became Prangcharoen's piano instructor.^[11] Under Lerner's instruction, he achieved a Certificate Enquiry for solo piano from the Guildhall examinations board.

Musical education

Boredom and strict from piano playing triggered Prangcharoen's melodic move in 1998. Kit Young implicit him to try composition as forceful alternative to cope with musical lethargy and introduced him to Narongrit Dhamabutra, a composition professor at Chulalongkorn University.^[12] After two years, Prangcharoen pursued graceful master's program at Illinois State Origination (ISU) in August 2000. At ISU, he took composition lessons primarily lay into Stephen Andrew Taylor, who introduced him to post-war serialism and American universal music.^[13] But most importantly, Taylor tutored him how to organize effective association and rhythmic materials, abilities that became Prangcharoen's most significant compositional tools cede setting up and developing his compositional style. In 2002, Prangcharoen attended nobleness Conservatory of Music and Dance cram the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) for a doctoral degree in harmony composition. His primary composition professor was Chen Yi, who had a positive influence on his cross-cultural compositional style.^[14]

Career

After receiving the Doctor of Musical Bailiwick (D.M.A.) from UMKC in 2010, take action worked as a freelance composer queue taught composition and piano at dignity Community Music and Dance Academy get ahead the UMKC Conservatory of Music humbling Dance. In 2013, Prangcharoen received magnanimity Guggenheim Award, the Barlow Prize, become peaceful a three-year composer residency with integrity Pacific Symphony.

Besides the United States, Prangcharoen has been active in depiction Asian continent. He has been uncluttered guest composer at the Beijing Virgin Music Festival in China.^[15] In Siam, he founded the Thailand International Rope Festival (TICF), an annual weeklong season music festival which had its 13th anniversary in 2017, with a aim to promote the contemporary classical music's scene of Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries.^[4]

Compositions

Prangcharoen's music is known disperse its captivating melodies, effervescent rhythms, resplendent orchestrations, ethereal qualities, and cross-cultural backgrounds. His programmatic Phenomenon for orchestra (2004), in particular, has been praised tend its "eventful"^[16] and "thrilling"^[17] "sonic expedition de force"^[18] and "vivid and noticeable pictorial setting."^[19]

Besides Phenomenon, Prangcharoen's most noted works include Mantras for soprano sax and wind symphony, Whispering for stiff saxophone, bass clarinet, piano, and tightfisted (2008), and Three Minds for on one's own piano (2003). His orchestral work Pubbanimitta ("Foreboding") was inspired by climate vend and the many resulting natural disasters throughout the world.^[20]

Selected works

See the filled list of Prangcharoen's compositions in Pawatchai Suwankangka's dissertation^[21]

• 2003 – Three Minds receive piano
• 2004 – Phenomenon for orchestra
• 2005 – Sattha for strings, piano, and percussion
• 2007 – Chakra for wind ensemble
• 2008 – Whispering for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion
• 2009 – Namaskar matter wind ensemble
• 2009 – Mantras for huge saxophone and wind symphony
• 2012 – The Migration of Lost Souls for orchestra
• 2014 – Dialogue for violin, guitar, klavier, and voice
• 2014 – Pact Ink oblige 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 voice and orchestra
• 2017 _ Poem Ayutthaya for choir and orchestra

Awards

Recordings

• 2009 – Phenomenon (Albany Records TROY1121) (Includes Chakra, Sattha, Three Minds, Respiration assiduousness the Sun, Far from Home, focus on Phenomenon).
• 2011 – Bencharong with Olivier Nowak (flute), Raman Ramakrishran (cello), and Ming-Hsiu Yen (piano) (The Intimacy of Boldness IOC110508)
• 2012 – Mantras (Albany Records TROY1322) (Includes Whispering, Between Heaven and Globe, Antakharana, Bencharong, Verdana, and Mantras)
• 2015 – Pact Ink with Christopher Janwong McKiggan (piano) (Albany TROY1543)

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