Biography: Piyawat Louilarpprasert (b.1993)

“His Compositions suggest a post humanist approach to sound production, where performer, instrument and objects become new agents”
(Described by The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri)
A young generation Thai composer based in New York, the recipients of 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Piyawat Louilarpprasert has been awarded several grants and composition prizes such as Sage Fellowship (Cornell University, NY), The Charles Stewart Richardson Scholar Award (Royal College of Music, UK), Fund for Classical Promotion Under the Patronage HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana (TH), The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award 2018 (USA), Sergei Slonimsky Composition Award 2018 (Russia), Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute 2018 (USA, honorable mention), Lucern Festival Academy Young Composer Seminar 2016 (Switzerland), Rapee Sagarik Award 2018 (TH), Royal concerto orchestral composition prize 2017 (UK), Gabriel Prokofiev Nonclassical Music Competition (UK), Winner of Léon Goossens Prize 2016 (UK), Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra Award 2015 (TH), Asia-Pacific Saxophone Composition Award 2015 (TH), SEADOM Composition Award 2015 (Philippines), Young Thai Artists Awards, Asian Composer League Electroacoustic music call for score 2014 (Japan) and Young Composers in Southeast Asia Competition 2013 (Germany). In 2017, he was a composer in residence at KulturKontakt 2017 (AIR), Vienna, offered by the Austrian Federal Chancellery and Music Austria. Recently, he won the prestige Concerto Prize with his piece, To nowhere am I straying for Orchestra and received a £4,000 commission for 95th the Charles's Celebration (2020).

Piyawat's music explore possibilities of creating the amalgamation of sonic and visual arts; including integrating multimedia and music, deconstructing instruments' s mechanism and physicality with sound production method, and involving Thai traditional music elements in new compositions. Louilarpprasert's compositions have been performed more than 10 countries in Asia, Europe and United States. His music has drawn attention in numerous music festivals such as MUSIIKIN AIKA - Time of Music 2018 (Finland), Saint Petersburg New Music Festival 2018 (Russia), Kulturkontakt Vienna 2017, Lucerne Festival 2016, Orkest Ereprijs Young Composer Meeting 2017, Gaudeamus Musikweek 2016 (Netherlands), China – ASEAN Music Week 2016, Work in Progress Korean New Music Festival 2015, Darmstadt New Music Festival 2014 (Germany), London National Portrait 2015, Mozart of Tomorrow 2015 (UK), Musica y Arte: Correspondencias Sonoras 2016, Asian Composer League 2014 and many more He collaborated with several established ensembles and orchestras such as Arditti Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Lucerne Alumni Ensemble, Orkest Ereprijs, Oerknal!, Berlin Philharmonic Horn Section and Horn Pure, Ensemble Platypus, Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble Surplus, Ensemble Mozaik, ASEAN Contemporary Ensemble, University Cincinnati Chamber Players, Mahidol University Orchestras, Vienna Improvisor Orchestra, University of Philippines Symphonic Band, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Stockport Youth Orchestra, RCM Philharmonic Orchestra, and Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Some of his music were broadcasted in Radio New Zealand and BBC radio 3. He also worked with renowned composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Olga Neuwirth, Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Zygmount Krauze, Ken Ueno and many others.

Piyawat is currently studying doctorate degree in composition at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York with Kevin Ernste and Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri. He has obtained his Bachelor’s degree in composition with Valeriy Rizayev and conducting with Pamornpan Komolpamorn at College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand in 2011-15, Master’s degree in Composition and Conducting at Royal College of Music, London with Dai Fujikura, Jonathan Cole and Gilbert Nuono in 2017. Website: http://www.piyawatmusic.com