{"id":14822,"date":"2021-12-03T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\/people\/dr-duangruthai-pokaratsiri\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:14:58","slug":"dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\/th\/people\/dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rattanai Bampenyou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Career Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1980, Rattanai Bampenyou started his first guitar lesson at the age of seventeen. In 1998, he attended College of Music, Mahidol University, where he studied guitar with Nalin Komentrakarn, Suvich Klinsmith, and Phillip Villa. When he was a Bachelor guitar student, he won Gold Medal prizes from National Youth Music Competition, the former name of SET Youth Music Competition, in 2000 and 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having received his B.A. (music) in 2002, he became a guitar and music theory instructor at the College. Two years later, he was awarded a full-scholarship from Office of the Higher Education Commission to study both Master\u2019s and Doctoral degrees in music in the U.S. In 2005, he attended University of Miami, Frost School of Music and majored in instrumental performance (classical guitar). At the Frost School, he studied guitar with Dr. Rene Gonzalez, Rafael Padron, and Manuel Barrueco, who was the School\u2019s visiting artist. In 2008, he also studied with Douglas Niedt, a three-time performer in Carnegie Hall, at University of Missouri-Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rattanai obtained both Master\u2019s and Doctoral degrees in instrumental performance (guitar) from University of Miami, Frost School of Music in 2007 and 2012. His doctoral essay \u201cA Performance Guide to the Multi-Movement Guitar Sonatas of Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani\u201d offers many new theoretical perspectives on Sor\u2019s sonatas op. 22, 25 and Giuliani\u2019s op. 15. Currently, Rattanai is a full-time guitar instructor and Chair of Classical Guitar Department at College of Music, Mahidol University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2003 \u2013 Mahidol University (Thailand) \u2013 Bachelor of Arts (Music)
2007 \u2013 University of Miami (USA) \u2013 Master of Music
2012 \u2013 University of Miami (USA) \u2013 Doctor of Musical Arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6994,"template":"","degree":[],"major":[],"people_category":[62],"class_list":["post-14822","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-administrative-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDr. Rattanai Bampenyou - Mahidol Music<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\/th\/people\/dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"th_TH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Rattanai Bampenyou - Mahidol Music\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Career Highlights Bo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\/th\/people\/dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mahidol Music\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T09:14:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rattanai-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 \u0e19\u0e32\u0e17\u0e35\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\\\/th\\\/people\\\/dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.music.mahidol.ac.th\\\/th\\\/people\\\/dr-rattanai-bampenyou-2\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dr. Rattanai Bampenyou - 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