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Guest Artists for the 2024-2025 Festival
Dr. Narong Prangcharoen
Dr. Narong Prangcharoen, Composer-in-residence
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.
Khemia Ensemble
Khemia Ensemble, Ensemble-in-residence
Hailed by the Columbia Daily Tribune as adding a “fresh dimension” to the concert experience, Khemia Ensemble is dedicated to reflecting broader perspectives in contemporary classical chamber music. With its dynamic instrumen
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The classical symphonic canon includes a number of pieces inspired by geographical areas. Mendelssohn’s “The Hebrides” Overture comes immediately to mind, as does Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome” and Richard Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony.” As far as we know, though, no one has ever tried to compose a symphonic work about Orange County as a place or an idea. Until now, that is. A man named Narong Prangcharoen has done it. The piece is called “Beyond Land and Ocean” and the Pacific Symphony will give its premiere as it opens its season the first week of October.
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