Concert Announcement: Poom's Piano Recital

Poom Prommachart is rapidly building a reputation as an outstanding performer and an artist of rare expressive depth. A student of Prof. Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music (RCM), he recently won the 1st Prize (The Kindersley Prize) and the Audience Prize donated by Leopold de Rothschild at the UK's Conservatories, Sheepdrove Piano Competition, featuring some of the brightest talents from all major UK conservatoires. Other recent successes include the 1st Prize in the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist of the Year Competition, youngest finalist in the RCM Concerto Competition, The Henry Wood Trust Award, the Esther Fisher Prize for best undergraduate (RCM) and the 2nd Prizes at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest (where he was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of a work by Liszt), Moray Piano Competition, Scotland and Top-Prize, the Joan Chisell Schumann Award (RCM).


Poom gave his first solo recital when he was 14 and has since given regular recitals and concerto performances throughout Thailand, Singapore, Japan, UK, France, Switzerland, Hungary and Greece. Most recently, Poom performed Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra to great acclaim. Forthcoming engagements in 2010 include many recitals in Europe and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra at St. John’s Smith Square, London, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Thai Youth Orchestra, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Newbury Symphony Orchestra, and Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 with North London Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Poom studied with Thailand’s foremost piano teacher, Peerapong Surawan, and then with Rena Phua and Boris Kraljevic at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. As a young student he won many awards and, at the age of 15, attained the FTCL Diploma from Trinity College. In 2007, he was awarded a full scholarship by H.R.H. Princess Galyani Vadhana and the Royal College of Music to continue his studies in London. Poom was also the last student of Yonty Solomon who described him as "A truly magnificent pianist POOM PROMMACHART ''.
Program

Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata BWV 208 J.S.Bach – Le Fleming
Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No. 2 Beethoven
Apres une Lecture de Dante – Fantasia quasi Sonata Liszt
- Intermission -
Moments Musicaux No. 3 & 4, Op. 16 Rachmaninoff
Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Schumann
On Sunday, 20th December 2009, 7.00 p.m.
At Small Hall, Thailand Cultural Centre

Tickets: Baht 500 / 300 and 200 บาท (Students only) Available at Peerapong Music School