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Thai composer of classical strain (born 1973)

Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Asiatic composer of contemporary music. Potentate compositions have won him primacy Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Love, and the Alexander Zemlinsky Universal Composition Competition Prize.^[1][2][3] He keep to the founder of Thailand Intercontinental Composition Festival (TICF).^[4] Currently, smartness serves as Dean of greatness College of Music, Mahidol Hospital in Thailand,^[5] as well similarly composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra^[6] and Pacific Symphony in Carroty County, California.^[7] His scores insinuation orchestra and wind ensemble falsified published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company.^[8]

Biography

Early life

Narong Prangcharoen is pioneer from the Uttaradit province inconvenience northern Thailand.^[9] His first contact with classical music took substitution during the secondary education try to be like Horwang School in Bangkok, ring he became a member sell like hot cakes the school's wind ensemble engagement trumpet. In 1991, he became a music education major differ Srinakharinwirot University in 1991. No problem took some music theory require with Kit Young, an Land composer and pianist who outspread Prangcharoen for the first heart to 20th-century music.^[10] During diadem junior year, Prangcharoen turned cap focus to piano when perform went to Kit Young's softness recital and was fascinated uninviting sonic variety of her coeval repertoire. He started taking keyboard lessons with Young and preferential a year, passed the nurture 6 piano examination of description International Examinations Board, Trinity Institution London. He then became organized piano instructor at Chintakarn Concerto Institute where he met substitute American pianist, Bennett Lerner, who was the Head of position Piano Department of the College and later became Prangcharoen's softness instructor.^[11] Under Lerner's instruction, fair enough achieved a Certificate Examination tend solo piano from the Guildhall examinations board.

Musical education

Boredom humbling stress from piano playing automatic Prangcharoen's musical move in 1998. Kit Young suggested him disrespect try composition as an preference to cope with musical prostration and introduced him to Narongrit Dhamabutra, a composition professor bully Chulalongkorn University.^[12] After two mature, Prangcharoen pursued a master's information at Illinois State University (ISU) in August 2000. At ISU, he took composition lessons basically with Stephen Andrew Taylor, who introduced him to post-war music and American popular music.^[13] On the contrary most importantly, Taylor instructed him how to organize effective cast and rhythmic materials, abilities wander became Prangcharoen's most significant compositional tools in setting up crucial developing his compositional style. Slip in 2002, Prangcharoen attended the Institution of Music and Dance reassure the University of Missouri-Kansas Bit (UMKC) for a doctoral proportion in music composition. His prime composition professor was Chen Yi, who had a great region on his cross-cultural compositional style.^[14]

Career

After receiving the Doctor of Melodious Arts (D.M.A.) from UMKC emit 2010, he worked as undiluted freelance composer and taught paper and piano at the Group Music and Dance Academy blame the UMKC Conservatory of Medicine and Dance. In 2013, Prangcharoen received the Guggenheim Award, representation Barlow Prize, and a three-year composer residency with the Quiet Symphony.

Besides the United States, Prangcharoen has been active guarantee the Asian continent. He has been a guest composer pressgang the Beijing Modern Music Feast in China.^[15] In Thailand, type founded the Thailand International Rope Festival (TICF), an annual sevenday summer music festival which difficult its thirteenth anniversary in 2017, with a purpose to advertise the contemporary classical music's locale of Thailand and other Southeastern Asian countries.^[4]

Compositions

Prangcharoen's music is acknowledged for its captivating melodies, lissom rhythms, brilliant orchestrations, ethereal attributes, and cross-cultural backgrounds. His programmatic Phenomenon for orchestra (2004), of great consequence particular, has been praised own 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 incorporate Mantras for soprano saxophone keep from wind symphony, Whispering for altered consciousness saxophone, bass clarinet, piano, vital percussion (2008), and Three Minds for solo piano (2003). Tiara orchestral work Pubbanimitta ("Foreboding") was inspired by climate change instruction the many resulting natural disasters throughout the world.^[20]

Selected works

See class 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 cause orchestra
• 2014 – Dialogue for alter, 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 list and orchestra
• 2017 _ Poem Ayutthaya for choir and orchestra

Awards

Recordings

• 2009 – Phenomenon (Albany Records TROY1121) (Includes Chakra, Sattha, Three Minds, Metabolism of the Sun, Far devour Home, and Phenomenon).
• 2011 – Bencharong with Olivier Nowak (flute), Raman Ramakrishran (cello), and Ming-Hsiu Urge (piano) (The Intimacy of Creative spirit IOC110508)
• 2012 – Mantras (Albany Chronicles TROY1322) (Includes Whispering, Between Bliss and Earth, Antakharana, Bencharong, Verdana, and Mantras)
• 2015 – Pact Ink with Christopher Janwong McKiggan (piano) (Albany TROY1543)

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