Prach Boondiskulchok

Prach Boondiskulchok was born in Bangkok and moved to the UK to study piano and composition at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and subsequently the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied composition with Steve Goss and Malcolm Singer. He has also benefited from the guidance of musicians such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Richard Goode, András Schiff, Ferenc Rados, Eberhardt Feltz, Thomas Adès, Brett Dean and Julian Anderson. As a pianist, Boondiskulchok’s solo and chamber music performances have taken place on many international stages. Highlights from recent seasons include a duo recital with Steven Isserlis. His ensemble Linos Piano Trio is the winner of First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2015 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and recipients of the 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Frost Prize. His compositions include Night Suite (2014) for Piano Trio, praised by George Benjamin for its “ingenuity and imagination”, and the semi-operatic chamber song cycle written in collaboration with T. S. Elliott-Prize-Winner Sarah Howe, Goose Daughter commissioned and premiered by the Birdfoot Festival in 2016. Goose Daughter has received subsequent performances in New York, London’s Kings Place, and in Wisconsin. Prach Boondiskulchok was one of the four commissioned composers for the Endellion String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary Concert in 2019, alongside Sally Beamish, Jonathan Dove, and Giles Swayne. His Ritus: Four Portraits for String Quartet was praised as “a work of great charm” in the The Guardian after its performance at the Wigmore Hall in London. A keen educator and committed scholar, Prach Boondiskulchok served as a faculty member at the Yehudi Menuhin School from 2010-2016, and is currently a Doctoral Researcher in Tom Beghin's research cluster at the Orpheus Institute, and a faculty member at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Since 2017, he has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire with the Linos Piano Trio.