Brass

Dr. Michael Robinson Jr., Trombone

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: A405.04
• Tel: (662) 800-2525-34 #1415
• E-mail: mrobinsonjr@gmail.com

Dr. Michael Robinson, Jr. is originally from Charleston, SC where he attended Burke High School under the direction of Linard McCloud. He has been an active freelance trombonist in Michigan and South Carolina as well as a private low brass instructor in Dorchester District 2, Berkeley, and Charleston Counties.

From 2007-09, he was awarded a 2-year contract as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Fellow where his duties included playing principal and second trombone, along with community outreach services in the Detroit Metro Area. He has held positions such as acting 2 nd trombone with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Bay Symphony, Canton Symphony, and Principal with the West Michigan Symphony. Also, he has subbed with the Grand Rapids Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Lansing Symphony, Charleston Symphony, and the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. Aside from classical music, he has been in several Broadway pit orchestras at the Fisher Theater in Detroit, the Wharton Center in East Lansing, the Strahan Theatre in Toledo, and the Devos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids. He is also a member of the Variance Brass Quintet with members from his undergraduate studies. As an avid chamber music performer, he is a member of the Variance Brass Quintet, which started a summer brass camp in 2015 in Tucson, AZ. Most recently, he is a founding member of an African-American brass quartet named Pitch. He is currently the Lecturer of Trombone at Mahidol University College of Music, as well as Principal Trombone with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

His summer festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Bay View Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival USA. In the summers of 2005 and 2006, he toured Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Margarita Island, England, France, Italy, Belgium, and Germany with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas under the baton of Carlos Prieto, the music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic, and Gustavo Dudamel, music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is the two-time winner of the Tuesday Musical Solo Competition in Akron, Ohio, and he won the concerto competition as a student at Shenandoah University and Michigan State University. In 1998, he was a member of the National Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall under the direction of H. Robert Reynolds, Former Music Director at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Dr. Robinson received his Bachelor of Music Degree from Shenandoah University, Master of Music along with an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University where was he was a University Distinguished Fellow. His teachers include Ken Thompkins, Randy Hawes, Steve Witser, Rick Stout, Per Brevig, Chris Matten, and Ava Ordman.

Kraisit Suwanlao, Percussion

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: PC405.06
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #5401
• Email: kraisitwin@hotmail.com

Kraisit Suwanlao is a full time lecturer at the College of Music, Mahidol University where he teaches applied percussion and percussion chamber music in the Young Artist Music Program. He is also a full time member of the percussion section of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009. He was born in 1990 in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008, he passed the audition and he was admitted to the college of Music, Mahidol University in Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music performance he is studying percussion performance with Ms.Wannapha Yannavut and Mr. Kyle Acuncius. While studying at Mahidol University, he has many opportunities to play as a concert percussionist. He was percussionist in the Mahidol University Orchestra (2008), Mahidol Wind Symphony (2008- 2009), Southeast Asian Youth Wind Ensemble (SAYOWE- 2008), the Integrated Percussion.

Sompop Puengpreeda, Trumpet

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: A405.07
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1401
• Email: mootrumpet@hotmail.com

Sompop Puengpreeda is Lecturer of Trumpet at Mahidol University College of Music, where he has taught since 1996. He teaches applied trumpet, studio class and small ensemble. Puengpreeda was a member of the trumpet section of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra from 2005-2015. Prior to joining the TPO in 2005, he was a member of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra from 1987-2003

Equally comfortable performing jazz and commercial music, he has performed with well-known groups such as Chalermraj Big Band, Kasikorn Band, Charoenkrung Brass Ensemble, Maitai Chamber Orchestra, and the Siam Kolkarn Big Band. He is also in demand as a jazz pianist, and performs regularly for a variety of functions and events.

Since 2008, Sompop became conductor of the Bangkok Milal Missionary Choir, whom he has conducted and performed with in many provinces in Thailand and many countries around the world. Highlight performance have included a concert in 2003 at New York’s famous Carnegie Hall.

Puengpreeda received a Bachelor Degree in Music Education from Chulalongkorn University, and Master of Arts Degree in Solo Performance from the College of Music, Mahidol University. His major trumpet teachers include Dr. Joseph Bowman, Wisit Jitrangsan, Yuth Punsa-ard, Manu Hothai and Henry Nowak.

Kitti Sawetkittikul, Euphonium and Tuba

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: PC403.02
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #5465
• Email: boongy123@yahoo.com

Kitti Sawetkittikul has been on the faculty of the College of Music at Mahidol University since 2006 where he teaches applied tuba and euphonium and brass chamber music. He has served as principal tuba of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005. Kitti and Mahidol University had the honor to host the Tuba Mania International Festival 2013 (TMIF). He is member of International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA). Kitti has a Master Degree in Performance from the College of Music, Mahidol University, and a Bachelor Degree at Chulalongkorn University.  His major teachers include J.D. Salas, Christof Kiene, and Surapol Thanyawibul.

Dr. Wannapha Yannavut, Percussion

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: A401.1
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1426
• Email: wyannavut@gmail.com

Dr. Wannapha Yannavut started her professional percussion education in 1989 at Regina Coeli College School in Chiangmai, studying with Mr. Chumpol Channarong and Ms. Nanhathai Vitayanantapornkul. Later she went on to study with Mr. Pinai Preechaporn at Montfort College High School. From 1997-2000, she veered away from music, studying Thai language and literature at Prince of Songkhla University, Pattani Campus. During that time, she was a member of the music club. After finishing her bachelor’s degree, she returned to music, earning the Master of Art (Music) Degree in Percussion Performance with Mrs. Kae Reed and Mr. Shane Constant at Mahidol University, College of Music. In 2016, she received the Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa, studying with Dr. Dan Moore. Additionally, she studied with Dr. John Parks for one month at the Florida State University in 2008.

Since 2006, she is an artist/instructor of percussion at Mahidol University and director of the Integrated Percussion Ensemble. She was also principal percussionist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006-2012 and was promoted to timpanist in 2009-2012. In 2007, she was invited to play as a soloist with the Mahidol Wind Symphony.

Currently, she is an artist/lecturer of percussion at Mahidol University College of Music, directing the Integrated Percussion Ensemble, and also Principal Timpanist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Joseph Bowman, Trumpet

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: A405.03
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1414
• Email: joseph.bow@mahidol.ac.th
• Website: https://www.facebook.com/MUTrumpetStudio

One of Southeast Asia’s most prominent trumpet artists and educators, Joseph Bowman has been Professor of Trumpet at Mahidol University College of Music in Bangkok, Thailand since 2003, where he teaches applied trumpet, performs with the faculty ensemble BrassArts Bangkok, and teaches trumpet literature, pedagogy and orchestral repertoire. Prior to his appointment, he served on the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Martin, USA and as a graduate teaching assistant at Arizona State University.

A member of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra since 2008, Bowman has previously performed with the Memphis Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, and many regional orchestras.  He has given solo performances and master classes across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Recently, he performed as a soloist with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, appeared in recital and in presentations at the International Trumpet Guild Conferences, and given master classes at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the National University of Singapore, and the Hanoi Conservatory in Vietnam.  As a performer, Bowman has recorded for Summit, D’Note, and Naxos American.

Bowman has been a member of the Board of Directors for the International Trumpet Guild since 2009, and is also Vice President of the Thailand Trumpet Guild.  In 2005, Bowman and Mahidol University had the honor to host the 2005 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Bangkok, which was a tremendous success and drew critical acclaim. He has served ITG in many capacities over the past decade, including as youth web editor from 2001-2008. An avid writer, he has over one hundred publications in the International Trumpet Guild Journal, The Instrumentalist, Mahidol Music Journal and the NACWPI Journal.

Dr. Bowman received a DMA and MM from Arizona State University, and a BM from the University of Cincinnati. His teachers have included David Hickman, Samuel Pilafian, Alan Siebert, Marie Speziale, Vince DiMartino, and Pat Harbison.  He lives in Bangkok with his wife Lisa, and his son Alex.

Joseph Bowman is an endorsing artist for Bach trumpets.

Dr. Daren Robbins, Horn

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: A405.11
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1405
• Email: darenrobbins@gmail.com

Daren Robbins has been on the faculty of the College of Music at Mahidol University since 2008 and a member of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra from 2009-2017. At the College he serves as chair of the Brass and Percussion Department as well as professor of horn, brass literature and pedagogy, and chamber music. He is also the Assistant Dean for Professional Services and Orchestra Manager for the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

Robbins is an active member of the International Horn Society where he serves as Regional Coordinator for Thailand, Editor of Online Music Sales library, and has performed at numerous regional and international IHS events. Daren is the creator of hornexcerpts.org which is the most visited horn-related website on the internet, coach of Horn Pure, the award-winning horn ensemble comprised of students from his studio, and founder and host of the Thailand Brass and Percussion Conference. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of North Texas, and the University of Iowa. His primary teachers include Douglas Hill, William Scharnberg, and Kristin Thelander.

Alongkorn Laosaichuea

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: PC403.04
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #5463
• Email: dizzonanz87@gmail.com

Alongkorn Laosaichuea is lecturer of trumpet at the College of Music, Mahidol University in the Young Artist Music program since 2015, where he teaches applied trumpet, trumpet and brass literature, and brass chamber music. A former member of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra from 2007-2017, Laosaichuea began formal studies at the Pre-College Program, followed by Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music Performance from the College of Music, Mahidol University. Laosaichuea’s major trumpet teacher was Joseph Bowman.  He did additional studies with Sompop Puengpreeda, James Sherry, and David Hart.

Alongkorn has participated in master classes with trumpet artists such as Reinhold Friederich, Langston Fitzgerald III, Bill Pfund, Jeff Corner, and Carole Reinhart. He was the finalist of the ITG youth competition 2005 and won the ITG Young Artist scholarship in the same year. Alongkorn has extensive chamber music experience in ensembles such as iBrass, MU-TE, and the TPO Brass Quintet. He was a member of the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble (SAYOWE) from 2005-2007. Alongkorn was invited to perform at the 2007 ITG Conference in Boston, Massachusetts and the 2013 ITG Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan with the Mahidol University Trumpet Ensemble (MU-TE).

He hosts the Mahidol Trumpet Summer Camp and Mahidol Brass and Percussion Camp.

Suparchai Sorathorn, Horn

Brass and Percussion Department

• Room Number: PC403.03
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #5464
• Email: suparchai04@hotmail.com

Suparchai Sorathorn has been on the faculty of the College of Music at Mahidol University since 2013 and a member of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra since 2006. He served as Principal Horn from 2006-2017 and continues as a member of the section today. At Mahidol he serves as a professor of horn and chamber music such as Horn Quartet. He is an active member of the International Horn Society. Suparchai is now coaching for Patumwilai High School Band. Suparchai has been a musician for Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and many chambers in Thailand. He holds degrees from the Sripatum University and is now studying for his Master Degree degree at Bannsomdej University. His primary teachers include Vanich Potavanich, Surapol Thanyaviboon, Nipat Kanchanahud, Vichan Chinnavirojpaisarn and also took course with Hans Pizka, Philip Mayer, Stefan Dohr, and Douglas Hill.

Kalteera Supaniti

General Education Department

• Room Number: A1111.5
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1103
• Email: nunnmusic@gmail.com

After earned a Bachelor degree in Sports Science with 2^nd class honour from Chulalongkorn university, Kalteera pursues her passion in Music Education by continue her study at College of Music, Mahidol university. She has been working at College of Music, Mahidol university, for six years as a teacher assistant of Pre-college program and a student affairs officer for B.A. program respectively. Currently, her position is a full-time faculty of the college. For her career development, Kalteera engaged in a number of trainings to enhance her repertoire of knowledge. She acquired a certificate in Student Volunteer Management for Education and Corporate Social Responsibility from Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand and another certificate in the Therapeutic Uses of Music from the College of Music, Mahidol university. To guarantee her proficiency in English, Kalteera also got a certificate IV in spoken and written English for Upper Intermediate level from Bayside International English College, Melbourne, Australia. Kalteera is specialized in creative lesson planning, curriculum knowledge, classroom management, learner assessment and individual counselling. Her strength is teamworking which require skills such as communication and conflict resolution. She can handle a situation under pressure and does not mind to create something innovative to support her work. She is interested in various topics, include curriculum development, special needs student, CSR projects, musician injury and sport events.