Chanyapong Thongsawang

Chanyapong Thongsawang, Thai pianist and musicologist, received his PhD in musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2015. Parallel to his PhD studies, he was a postgraduate piano student of Prof. Dr. Margit Haider-Dechant and took part in a fortepiano class of Wolfgang Brunner at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. Currently, he is a full-time lecturer at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music.

Chanyapong was a piano student of Nat Yontararak in Bangkok from 1995 to 2004. Further study followed at Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland with Tomasz Herbut. He also took harpsichord lessons with Dirk Börner and fortepiano lessons with Edoardo Torbianelli. Moreover, he attended a conducting class with Dominique Roggen and Ludwig Wicki. He obtained master’s degrees both in Music Performance (2008) and Music Pedagogy (2010) there.

Chanyapong won the first prize from the 5th Nat-Studio Piano Competition in Bangkok in 1997. He received the excellent prize from the First International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia held in Japan in 2000. Two years later he won the first prize from the 6th Chopin Piano Competition in Bangkok. In 2010, he received the third prize from the 18th International Music Competition Citta di Cortemilia in Italy.

Apart from his musical talent, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Chulalongkorn University.