Siam Sinfonietta - Thai Festival 2015 Bad Homburg

Siam Sinfonietta is a

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founded in 2010 by Thai-American composer

Somtow Sucharitkul S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; ; ; born December 30, 1952) is a Thai-American musical composer and conductor, and a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English as both Somtow Sucha ...

, Thai conductor

Trisdee na Patalung Trisdee na Patalung (; ; born 9 March 1986) is a Thai composer and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble and the Resident Conductor of the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok. Na Patalung began studying music at the age of 13. ...

, and the

Bangkok Opera Opera Siam, formerly Bangkok Opera, is an opera company in Bangkok, Thailand. It presents an international opera repertoire, together with home-grown favorites.Fodor's Bangkok 25 Best', p. 90 (2015). The company was founded in 2001, as a produc ...

Foundation. It was created in order to provide intensive training for young Thai musicians intending to have a serious career in classical music. The orchestra operates out of the offices of the Bangkok Opera Foundation. The orchestra came into existence at the first "Bach to the Future: Science through Music" camp and immediately embarked on a series of concerts in Bangkok, particularly concerts for young audiences and concerts that served to introduce classical music to new audiences. It has toured extensively in Thailand and in its second year plans more international touring as well. Some high-profile events the Siam Sinfonietta has participated in include the "Together We Can" concert to raise awareness of the governor of Bangkok's initiative for reconciliation after the 2010 unrest in downtown Bangkok, and the "Introducing the Symphony" series at Bangkok's Art and Culture Center, populist concert-lectures about music. The orchestra holds annual auditions for young musicians aged 16–24. A number of its members are also members of full-fledged professional orchestras such as the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra and the

Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populatio ...

. It has twice performed in conjunction with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra: in the Thailand premiere of Mahler's Third Symphony, and at a gala concert in front of

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, Bangkok, the site of the 2010 troubles, as part of an event to promote "Healing through Harmony." The sinfonietta is funded largely by private and corporate sponsorships. On 8 July 2012, the two-year-old orchestra won first place at the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in the symphony orchestra category. The next year, the orchestra toured in California and performed at

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in Berlin, Germany; this was followed in 2014 by performances in Carnegie Hall and another trip to Berlin, Prague and Abu Dhabi under the auspices of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In August 2015 the orchestra performed at the Festival junger Künstler in

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and at the Thai Festival in

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, Germany. The orchestra has also appeared on film, first in 2021's ''The Maestro'', a Thai horror film starring Somtow as a murderous conductor, and in the surprising denouement of 2022's

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(cited as a Filipino orchestra in the screenplay).

References

External links

Siam Sinfonietta

Artistic Director's blog

Bangkok Opera Foundation's website including performance schedule of Sinfonietta
{{authority control Thai orchestras Sinfoniettas (orchestras) Musical groups established in 2010 Youth orchestras 2010 establishments in Thailand

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