“the rebel Thai composer taking music to unheard heights”  
(CNN News World) 

Originally from Bangkok, Piyawat Louilarpprasert is a composer/artist who works interweave of composition, visual art and technology. Piyawat has been awarded commissions and prizes including Fromm Foundation Commission (USA), International Coproduction Fund (IKF)—Goethe Institut Commission, 1st Prize ISCM/Asian Composer League (New Zealand), Donaueschingen Musiktage Commission (Germany), Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Commission (Dresden) Südwestrundfunk (SWR) Experimental Studio Residency (Freiburg), MATA Festival Commission (New York), Mizzou Resident Composer (Missouri), ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award 2018-20-21 (USA), Fritz Gerber Award, Lucerne Festival Commission (Switzerland), American Composer Orchestra (USA), British Council Award (United Kingdom), 1st Prize Matan Givol Composers Competition (Israel), Northwestern University Conference (Chicago), Call for Scores Winner 40th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival (Ohio), Pro Helvetia Swiss Art Council (Switzerland), Japan Foundation Grants (Japan), the Audrey Kahin Research Fellowship (New York), Sage Fellowship (Cornell University, NY), The Charles Stewart Richardson Scholar Award and Commissions (Royal College of Music, UK), Unheard-of//Ensemble Multimedia Prize, The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award (USA), Sergei Slonimsky Composition Award (Russia), Winner of Léon Goossens Prize (UK), In 2017, he was a composer in residence at KulturKontakt (AIR), Vienna, offered by the Austrian Federal Chancellery Austria. In 2019, his “Smelly Tubes” was featured in CNN News World: “Young and Gifted”. His recent work, “Ohm-Na-Mo” was commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage for 100 years celebration in 2021. 

He has worked with groups: Tacet(i), Arditti, Alarm Will Sound, [Switch~ Ensemble], Berlin Philharmonic Horn Section, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mozaik, Platypus, Meitar, Wet Ink, Lucerne Alumni, Omnibus, Orkest Ereprijs, Vertixe Sonora, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Elblandphilharmonie, Trickster Orchestra, Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, American Composer Orchestra etc. 

As an educator, he was awarded the Don Michael Randel Research Fellowship 2021-22 to conduct his new music course: P.I.Y. (Perform it Yourself) at Cornell University, Ithaca where he obtained his D.M.A. in music composition. He also holds M.M. in composition at Royal College of Music, London, B.M. in composition and conducting at College of Music, Mahidol University. His major teachers are Valeriy Rizayev, Dai Fujikura, Kevin Ernste and Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri. Piyawat is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor in Composition at Bowling Green State University.