Composition

Dr. Jason Thorpe Buchanan

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: D405.05
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34
• Email: jasontbuchanan@gmail.com
• Website: www.jasonthorpebuchanan.com

Jason Thorpe Buchanan is an American composer, Artistic Director of the [Switch~ Ensemble], Curator for the San Francisco Center for New Music, and Full-Time Lecturer in Composition, Music Theory, and Electronic Music Composition at Mahidol University’s College of Music in Thailand. Commissions and international performances include work with Alarm Will Sound (USA), Talea Ensemble (USA), Gaudeamus (NL), Interface (DE), Nikel (Israel), Linea (FR), Insomnio (NL), EXAUDI (UK), Slagwerk Den Haag (NL), Eklekto Percussion (CH), Mivos Quartet (USA), NY Virtuoso Singers (USA), Royaumont (FR), Iktus (USA), Blue Water Chamber Orchestra (USA), The Industry (USA), wild Up (USA), Mizzou (USA), Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), International Horn Society (USA), and the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble (USA), among others. Scenes from his multimedia opera Hunger have received performances at Darmstadt (DE), The Industry’s FIRST TAKE in L.A., and MATA in NYC with the [Switch~ Ensemble].

Additional Honors and awards include a Fulbright Fellowship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre, Hamburg (DE), nomination for the Gaudeamus Prize (NL), fellowships and commissions from Royaumont Académie Voix Nouvelles (FR, 2016 & 2017), Artist-in-Residence USF Verftet Bergen, Norway, American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant, ASCAP Morton Gould Award (2014 & 2015), Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize, winner of Iron Composer (USA), and 2018 Artist-In-Residence at the Embassy of Foreign Artists in Geneva, Switzerland. He served for three years as Executive Director of the VIPA Festival (Spain), and as course instructor in electronic music and composition, as well as assistant conductor for the Musica Nova Ensemble with Brad Lubman, as a Ph.D. candidate at the Eastman School of Music.

As a guest composer, curator, and educator, he has taught and presented internationally at Chamber Music Campania (Italy), the VIPA Festival (Spain), the University of Virginia, Stanford University, San Jose State University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Queens New Music Festival, MATA, Portland State University, University of Richmond, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Michigan State University, the Bergen Center for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK) in Norway, and at the University of Chicago. (2017).

Pinchanan Jaiprasong

MCGP Project (Siam Paragon)

• Room Number: –
• Phone: 02-1294542-6
• Email: prin1412@hotmail.com

Pinchanan Jaiprasong has taught music theory at the Music Campus for the General Public, Siam Paragon, under the College of Music, Mahidol University since 2012. She graduated in 2007 from the College of Music with a Bachelors in Music Composition where she studied with composition with Aphipipat Deipaisarn and music theory with Valarie Rizeav.  She then received her master degree in jazz piano, also at the College of Music.

An active performer, lecturer, and composer Pinchanan’s career has spanned a wide variety of styles and genres, which she embraces.  She serves on the academic committee for the Thailand Higher Education Examination (TIME) and also teaches aural skills at the Young Artist Music Program.

Bordin Rattanasiri

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: PC405.11
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #5411
• Email: bordin.rattanasiri@gmail.com

Bordin Rattanasiri began his musical experiences as a classical guitarist. He studied guitar with Dr.Rattanai Bampenyou and Suvich Klinsmith in pre-college program, college of music, Mahidol university. By that time he found his interest in music composition therefore he attended composition major in bachelor’s degree at the college. He studied composition with Atibhop Pataradetpisan and was instructed in music subjects by Dr.Jiradej Setapandhu and Valeriy Rizayev. After graduated in first class honor, Bordin Rattanasiri continued his master’s degree at conservatory of music, Rangsit University in music composition and theory. Along the program he had a chance to be instructed by many great composers and theorists namely Dr.Jiradej Setapandhu, Dr.Narong Prangcharoen, Boonrut Sirirattanapan, and Dr.Wiboon Trakulhun. Beside the composition and theory, Bordin Rattanasiri is interested in developing ear training practice as he wrote many ear training exercises to be used in his teaching. He began his teaching career in 2011 at music campus for general public, college of music, Mahidol university as a music theory part time teacher. And in the present time he works as a full time teacher in music composition and theory department at college of music, Mahidol university.

Attakorn Sookjaeng

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: D405.07
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #4425
• Email: attakorn.composer@gmail.com

Attakorn Sookjaeng began his composition lessons with Dr. Daniel Eichenbaum and Dr. Brian Mills when he was a pre-college student at the College of Music, Mahidol University. During his undergraduate studies at Mahidol University, he had both composition and orchestration lessons with Atibhop Pataradetpisan and Valeriy Rizayev as well as Dr. Julia Lake Bozone during his graduate studies. He also had his private music theory lessons with Dr. Jiradej Setabundhu.

In addition to the academic courses, Attakorn was also a member of Mahidol University Pop Orchestra (2008 – 2009) as a pianist and participated in the musicals The Tale of Anazia (2009), In-Chan (2010) as a pianist and Cleopatra (2011) as a composer and arranger. He participated in the World Saxophone Congress XV (2009) in Thailand and Gala Concert of Yamaha Australian National Band Championships (2010) in Hobart, Australia as a clarinet player of Mahidol Wind Symphony. He also performed ‘The Art of Improvisation’ coached by Ken Ueno in Thailand International Composition Festival 2014 as a clarinetist.

He was commissioned to compose Chai Mon-kon Kaa-Taa for choir and chamber orchestra for the project “Lan Bodhi: Temple in the Cloud” at Siam Paragon in 2012. He arranged music for the album Plum Blossom Vol. 2 (Plum Village songs for the practice of mindfulness) in 2013. The piece Remoteness was selected and performed in Fürth, Germany as a part of the Thai Vision Ambassador Competition by Stefanie Waegner, cello and Pavarati Mani, piano. Most recently, he received the Grand Prize from Young Thai Artist Award Competition 2014 by SCG Foundation for the piece Bubbles of Time and had an opportunity to have a reading session for the same piece by Ensemble Mosaik (Germany) in 2015. Currently, he is a faculty of Composition and Theory Department at Mahidol University.

Valeriy Rizayev

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: A305.01
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1309
• Email: Valeriy_rizaev@mail.ru

Valeriy Rizayev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He received both Bachelor and Master degrees in Music Composition from Tashkent State Conservatoire (Uzbekistan) where he studied in the class of Professor Felix Yanov-Yanovsky. Among the other teachers he studied with at the conservatoire were Svetlana Ushnurtseva (piano), Irma Malmberg (music theory and history), Tulkun Kurbanov (polyphony), Vladimir Nechayev (orchestration) and others. Valeriy participated in various competitions and festivals including “Ilkhom-XX” (Uzbekistan), Gaudeamus (The Netherlands), Jihlava festival (Czech Republic). His compositions were performed in Uzbekistan, Israel, Russia, Czech Republic, USA and Thailand. At present time, Valeriy is a member of the Theory and Composition Faculty at the College of Music, Mahidol University. Valeriy wrote a number of works in various genres including the operas Agkon and his Mother, Dali and the Woman, opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, 2 Pieces in Old Style for 14 string instruments and harpsichord, works for choir both a cappella and with various forces and other pieces. Some of his composition, such as Sleep in Heavenly Peace for symphonic band, Tango for 2 pianos (12 hands), Prelude, Interludes, Concerto(-ino) and Postlude for piano tuner, Responses for 2 woodwind quintets, Fanfares for 12 trumpets, Haiku by Matsuo Basho for mixed choir, Our Troops Cross the Bridge for wind ensemble, were performed at the college.

Dr. Thomas Hyuk Cha

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: D402.10
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #4410
• Email: thomascha77@hotmail.com
• Website: www.thomascha.com

Dr. Narong Prangcharoen

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: A209.03, D302.12
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #1209, #1204, #4312
• Email: narongcompo@gmail.com

Thai Composer Narong Prangcharoen’s success as a composer was confirmed by his receiving the prestigious 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Barlow Prize. Other awards include the Music Alive, the 20th Annual American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Commission, the American Composers Orchestra Audience Choice Award, the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, the Alexander Zemlinsky International Composition Competition Prize, the 18th ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Composition Award, the Pacific Symphony’s American Composers Competition Prize, and the Annapolis Charter 300 International Composers Competition Prize. In his native country, Mr. Prangcharoen was recipient of the Silapathorn Award, naming him a “Thailand Contemporary National Artist”. He recently received Sugree Charoensook Award from The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) annual “Social Recognition Project” 2015.

Mr. Prangcharoen has, thus, established an international reputation and is recognized as one of Asia’s leading composers. He has received encouragement and praise from a number of important contemporary composers, such as Paul Chihara, Zhou Long, Augusta Read Thomas, and Yehudi Wyner. John Corigliano has called Prangcharoen’s music “contemporary and accessible,” and Chen Yi has written that it is “colorful and powerful.”

The press has also recognized Mr. Prangcharoen’s uniqueness as a composer. The Chicago Sun Times called his music “absolutely captivating”, and, of the October 2012 Carnegie Hall debut by the American Composers Orchestra of “Migrations of Lost Souls”, New York Times critic, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim wrote, it is “an atmospheric work that weaves some of the spiritual and vernacular sounds of Mr. Prangcharoen’s native Thailand into a skillfully orchestrated tapestry [with] moments of ethereal beauty.”

Mr. Prangcharoen’s music has been performed in Asia, America, Australia, and Europe by many renowned ensembles such as the American Composers Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the China NCPA Orchestra, the German National Theater Orchestra, the Grant Park Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, under many well-known conductors, such Carl St. Clair, Steven D. Davis, Carlos Kalmer, Jose-Luis Novo, Mikhail Pletnev, and Osmo Vänskä. His music has also been presented at many important music festivals and venues, such as the Grant Park Music Festival, the Asia: the 21st Century Orchestra Project, the MoMA Music Festival, the Maverick Concerts: “Music in the Wood”, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Le Poisson Rouge, and the Carnegie Hall by distinguished performers such as, among others, The New York New Music Ensemble, the Imani Winds, saxophonist John Sampen, and pianist Bennett Lerner

Mr. Prangcharoen received his DMA from University of Missouri-Kansas City, where his primary teacher was Chen Yi. Narong is now a Dean of a College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand. He is also a composer-in-Residence of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Thailand,

an Artistic Director of Thailand International Composition Festival, an Artistic Committee of Beijing Modern Music Festival, an Artistic Advisor of Asia/America New Music Institute, and a Vice President of China-ASEAN Musicians Union. His works are published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company.

Dr. Tyler Capp

Music Composition & Theory Department

• Room Number: D202.09
• Phone: (662) 800-2525-34 #4438
• Email: tylercapp@gmail.com

Tyler Capp (b. 1983) writes relentless, tonally charged, trans-stylistic works in an attempt to reconcile his diverse influences with the curious predicament of being a concert music composer in the 21st century. Of his work, Lee Passarella (Audiophile Audition) writes: “Capp’s music suggests an attractive, viable rapprochement between . . . styles that are often seen as disparate (and that sound even more so when a less sensitive musician tries to yoke them together).”

Tyler’s music has been performed throughout the world, with works featured at the highSCORE Music Festival (Italy), June in Buffalo, and the Thailand International Composition Festival, among others. He has also received fellowships from CULTIVATE to compose for the Music From Copland House Ensemble, and the UC Davis Composition Workshop. In 2010, Tyler’s piece Stranger Variations for violin was released on Stony Brook Soundings, Vol. II (Bridge Records 9319), and his work Cryptogram for wind ensemble was the recipient of a 2013 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation.

Tyler has been awarded numerous residencies throughout the United States, including a coveted Copland House Residency Award, allowing him to live and work in Aaron Copland’s home studio for two months. Most recently he was the winner of the National Association of Composers, USA Young Composers Competition, and received a grant for a new piece from the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association.

Tyler holds degrees from the University of Delaware, Stony Brook University, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow. His composition teachers have included Jennifer Margaret Barker, Chen Yi, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Sheila Silver, Peter Winkler, and Zhou Long. In 2015, Tyler accepted a position as full-time lecturer in Music Composition and Theory at the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand. He serves as Chair for the Music Composition and Theory Department.

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.