Aree Kunapongkul
On Thursday, August 30 from 7.30 p.m. onwards, Hard Rock
Hotel Pattaya together with New Frontier Music Academy, Acorn Distribution
and Pattaya Mail Media Group present an evening of classical music
composed by Franz Schubert in supports of Young Women’s Christian
Association (YWCA) of Bangkok - Pattaya Center.
Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828) was an Austrian
composer. In a short lifespan of just nearly 32 years, Schubert was a
prolific composer, writing some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the
famous “Unfinished Symphony”), liturgical music, operas, some incidental
music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Today, Schubert is
seen as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and
he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.
Mathias Boegner
To honor his music, this one-day concert is specially
brought to you and performed by the gifted Aree Kunapongkul (Pianist) and
the talented Mathias Boegner (Violinist).
Aree Kunapongkul began her piano studies in Thailand and
in 1991, she entered the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn
University by participating in a competitive examination organized
especially for gifted students. She received her Master of Music degree from
Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut, majoring in
Piano performance.
She was bestowed the exclusive Evelyn Bonar Storrs
Scholarship Award from the Musical Club at Hartford as well as scholarship
by Pepsi (Thailand) to participate in the 7th Annual Music Festival at
Walnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
In 2011, Aree was invited by the Chopin Society to sit on
the jury panel of the pre-selection committee set up to pre-audition
applicants of the 9th Bangkok Chopin Piano Competition.
Aree is a full time faculty member at the Conservatory of
Music - Rangsit University and con-currently, she is also the head of piano
studies at the New Frontier Music Academy, Bangkok.
Mathias Boegner is a German/Swiss violinist who has
studied with the famous Professors Gerhart Hetzel, Wolfgang Schneiderhan,
Dorothy DeLay and Aida Stucki in Munich, Vienna and Cincinnati.
He was concertmaster of Stadtorchester Winterthur,
Shanghai Broadcast Symphony and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Geneva. As a
soloist, he performed in Tokyo, Paris, Osaka, New York (Carnegie) and
recorded Ysaye’s solo sonatas and Paganini’s Caprices, recently also on live
DVD with 24 Italian Master instruments at an exhibition of Franke violins
Ltd.
He is also recipient from the German National Youth
Competition for String Quartet, Flersheim Foundation Lucerne, Cincinnati
Concerto Competition, Bangkok International Fine Arts Conferences
2009/10/11, Jordan Academy of Music, Satya Wacana University Indonesia and
Ministry of Education Cambodia.
His research about Alban Berg’s violin concerto is filed
at Harvard University Library. He was also an Associate Professor at
National University of the Arts Taiwan and professor at Hochschule Zuerich.
Since 2008, he has been with the China Conservatory Beijing with the same
position and head of the Chamber Music Department.
Tickets are available at THB 1,300 net per person
including a 3-course western set menu and concert. For more information and
reservations, kindly call 038 - 428 755 - 9 at extension 8301 or email
fb.pattaya@ hardrockhotels.net.
