Narong Prangcharoen

Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Thai composer of contemporary music. His compositions have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, and the Alexander Zemlinsky International Composition Competition Prize. He is the founder of Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF). Currently, he serves as Dean of the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand, as well as composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Pacific Symphony in Orange County, California. His scores for orchestra and wind ensemble are published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company. Biography Early life Narong Prangcharoen is originally from the Uttaradit province in northern Thailand. His first experience with classical music took place during the secondary education at Horwang School in Bangkok, where he became a member of the school’s wind ensemble playing trumpet. In 1991, he became a music education major at Srinakharinwirot University in 1991. He took some music theory classes with Kit Young, an American composer and pianist who exposed Prangcharoen for the first time to 20th-century music. During his junior year, Prangcharoen turned his focus to piano when h