03/09/2026
🌸 Chainarai Riverside
in Collaboration with
🎻 Chiangrai Youth Orchestra (CYO)
✨ Proudly Presents ✨
🌊 CONCERT FOR THE RIVERS
🌿 In support of the conservation of the Kok, Sai, Ruak, and Mekong Rivers, and the campaign to stop mining at their sources in Myanmar.
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Vela Quartet
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👥 PERFORMERS
Anapat Vuthithanthaveekij — Violin
Arisa Ruengprateepsang — Violin
Komkrit Suriya — Viola
Vannophat Kaploykeo — Cello
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🎵 PROGRAMME
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “The Joke”
I. Allegro moderato
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde”
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📅 DATE & VENUE
Friday, 18 September 2026
📍 Srijomthong Hall, Chainarai Riverside
🕖 7:00–8:30 PM
☎️ Reservations: 086 732 5292
🗺️ Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/88XLNLDFsQCjwvhB8
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👤 PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES
🎻 ANAPAT VUTHITHANTHAVEEKIJ - Violin
Awarded the 2024 Ernst Mach Grant (OeAD) Scholarship for a nine-month exchange programme at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), studying with Prof. Bettina Schmitt.
Studied chamber music with Prof. Peter Schuhmayer, a member of the Artis Quartett in Vienna.
During his time in Vienna, he performed with the Webern Symphony Orchestra at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn and the Wiener Konzerthaus.
He has served as Concertmaster of the Young Artist Music Orchestra and Mahidol String Chamber Orchestra, and regularly performs with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (RBSO). He has also been a student intern with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) since 2021.
In July 2025, he was selected as a soloist for the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Mahidol Symphony Orchestra.
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🎻 ARISA RUENGPRATEEPSANG - Violin
An exchange student at the Royal College of Music, London during Autumn 2024/25, studying with Prof. Felix Andrievsky.
She served as Assistant Concertmaster of the RCM Opera Orchestra and has been a full-time member of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO), Second Violin, since 2023.
She served as Concertmaster in the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra Side-by-Side Project in 2022 and 2023.
Her solo appearances include Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Mahidol String Chamber Orchestra at MACM in 2019, and Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor with the Chiangrai Youth Orchestra in Phuket in 2022.
She was the 1st Prize and Grand Prize Winner of the VI International Liszt Ferenc Competition 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, and won 1st Place in Category F: Virtuoso at the Thailand String Competition 2023, following a 3rd-place finish in 2022.
She holds a Master of Music in Performance and Pedagogy from Mahidol University.
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🎻 KOMKRIT SURIYA - Viola
Selected for the 2022–2023 Conservatory Exchange Program at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied under Prof. Masumi Per Rostad.
He currently holds on-call positions with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (RBSO) and Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO), and is a full-time member of the Bangkok Metropolitan Orchestra.
He has served as Principal Violist of both Siam Sinfonietta and the Thai Youth Orchestra (TYO).
Selected for the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) 2023, he was one of only three Thai musicians chosen from 12 Asian regions. With AYO, he performed at the Young Euro Classic Festival at the Konzerthaus Berlin and toured internationally.
He has also been invited to perform with the Sun Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi, Vietnam, and was a finalist in the Choochart Pitaksakorn Viola Competition.
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🎻 VANNOPHAT KAPLOYKEO - Cello
First Prize Winner of the University of Victoria Bach Competition 2023, as well as a prizewinner in various international competitions.
He has appeared as a featured soloist with the Salaya Chamber Orchestra, Mahidol Pops Orchestra, Million Wind Philharmonic, and Newcombe Singers in Canada.
He regularly performs with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria, and has served as Guest Assistant Principal Cello of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra and Principal Cello of the Salaya Chamber Orchestra.
He has performed alongside members of the Carmina Quartet, Abegg Trio, and Lafayette Quartet, and has appeared at international festivals including Quartet Fest West in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and the Thailand International Composition Festival.
He received the Ernst Mach Grant (OeAD) for advanced studies in cello and chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
He holds a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance from the University of Victoria, Canada, where he studied under Pamela Highbaugh-Aloni.
