Lecturers
Anant Nakkong, Silpathorn Artist
Composer, Ethnomusicologist, Writer and Traveler
Composer, Ethnomusicologist, Writer and Traveler
Born in 1965, grew up in several places before settled down in a quiet Bangyikun district along Chaopraya river where he enjoyed art and music environment there. After earning his B.F.A. in Thai Music from Chulalongkorn University in 1989, Anant went to SOAS, the University of London for his M.Phil study in Ethnomusicology. His comprehensive journeys in Southeast Asia countries, both mainland and islands made his acquaintance into Musical Cultures of this area. Since 1983, he founded a fusion music group Korphai (means a bunch of Bamboo) which is internationally renowned for its excellent rendition of Thai Classical Music as well as Thai Contemporary Music. Throughout the past 30 years, Korphai group has released a number of CD albums and has performed in numerous public concerts in Thailand and abroad. The group is also extensively involved in making a background for Thai films, documentaries, theatres, plays and festival presentations. In 2004, his group has worked on original music for a successful Thai film “Homrong (the Overture)“, inspired by his socio-music historical book - life story of the greatest Thai xylophonist and composer Luang Pradithphairoh. The film and its music received highly acclaimed by international media critics and the general public.
Other of his interests in music are Improvisation performance, Soundscape, Fieldwork recordings, sound installations and theatre works. He usually collaborates with Theatre and Dance companies. Recently he plays the role of Music Director at Pattravadi Theatre at Vic HuaHin and has been produced many challenging contemporary theatre projects such as PraLor (2008-11), Wiwah Prasamut (2012) and Rocking Rama (2013). He hosts 3 weekly radio programs in Thai music and World music at the Parliament Radio Broadcasting Station as well as Khonmuang Radio online. Anant writes and publishes a large number of articles in Musicology - Cultural Anthropology area for newspaper and monthly magazines. Since 2008 until now, Anant represents a specialist in Thai music for the Ministry of Culture Thailand and hold a status of working committee member of Asia Traditional Orchestra, ATO and Asia Traditional Ensemble, ATE which produced a number of new ASEAN-Korea compositions and concerts every year. Also, since 2015 he established the uniquely C-ASEAN Consonant youth ensemble under the initiative supported by Thai Beverage Company Ltd and serves as the Music Director of the project.
At present, he works at the Faculty of Music, Silpakorn University as a full-time lecturer in Ethnomusicology, World Music, and Composition subjects.
Prof Dieter Mack
Composer and Ethnomusicologist
Composer and Ethnomusicologist
Dieter Mack was born in 1954 in Speyer. He studied composition, piano and music theory. After various lectureships he became professor for music theory in Freiburg in 1986. From 2003 until 2021 when he retired he was professor for composition at the MHS Lübeck. Various study and research trips led him mainly to Indonesia where he studied Balinese gamelan music. In 1982 he founded his own gamelan ensemble. Since 1988 he has also worked in Indonesia’s music education system as a guest lecturer, and from 1992 to 1995 as a long term DAAD-guest lecturer at UPI Bandung. From 1996 to 2007 he was a consultant in an ethnomusicological-educational research project at UPI Bandung that was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. From 2007 to 2019 he was head of the DAAD music selection committee and from 2009 to 2015 head of Goethe Institute’s music advisory board. He continues to give regular masterclasses in composition mostly in East and Southeast Asia but also Canada and New Zealand. From 2008 to 2011 and 2015 to 2019 he was vice-president of the University of Music Lübeck. He composes mostly chamber music with a focus on percussion and wind instruments. As an author he writes mainly about intercultural issues. See www.dieter-mack.de for further information.
Asst Prof Dr Suppabhorn Suwanpakdee
Violist, Music Activist, Lecturer
Violist, Music Activist, Lecturer
Suppabhorn currently works as a full-time lecturer at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (PGVIM) and full-time lecturer where he also is the project director of the PYO (Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music Youth Orchestra). Suppabhorn has explored other musical paths such as experimental music and film music. He is a pioneer of Ensemble Music Makers, a collective proposing novel approaches to performance, experimenting with the interpretation of many musical styles, from classical music to new contemporary compositions.