Prach Boondiskulchok | |
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Born | Bangkok, Thailand |
Occupation(s) | Composer |
Instrument(s) | fortepiano |
Prach Boondiskulchok is a Thai-British composer and fortepianist.
Boondiskulchok was born in Bangkok, and moved to the United Kingdom to study at Yehudi Menhuin School, and later Guildhall School of Music and Drama. [1]
Whilst studying at Guildhall, Boondiskulchok founded the piano trio Linos Piano Trio with violinist Konrad Elias-Trostman and cellist Vladimir Waltham in 2007. [2] The trio won the RPS Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize in 2014, [3] and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2015. [4] They released an album of all Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's piano trios in 2020. [5]
In 2018, Boondiskulchok, along with Jonathan Dove, Sally Beamish, and Giles Swayne, was commissioned to compose a piece for Endellion Quartet's 40th anniversary concert. The works were premiered in 2019. [6]
Name of work | Instrumentation | Year of composition |
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Night Suite | Piano trio | 2014 |
The Devil of Symmetry | Piano | 2017 |
A Bao A Qu’s Stairs | Piano | 2018 |
The Remora | Piano | 2018 |
Ritus | String quartet | 2018 |
Squonk Diptych | Portative organ | 2019 |
Träumerei | Piano trio, clarinet | 2019 |
The Work | SATB choir | 2020 |
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