Suppabhorn Suwanpakdee

• doctor of fine and applied arts
• Lecturer at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music

The research project “Innovation of Creative Music Process for Community Development: Case Study Bang Yi Khan Community” had two objectives. Firstly, it aimed to design creative music activities and organize music-playing workshops for young, local participants. Secondly, the project aimed to compose collaboratively with the participation of those...

In every culture and time period, music has always been a medium of expression that gathers people together. In Thailand, the Sadhukarn, ceremonial music from the early Rattanakosin era (1782-1851), expressed a bodily and mental salutation to heavenly spirits, reinforcing a unified belief system before the start of an event. In a parallel era in Ce...

Known for its rich cultural and natural heritage, Mae Hong Son province in northern Thailand is a place where a diversity of art forms including fine arts, architecture and sculpture are well-represented. Throughout the history of Mae Hong Son, people have been sharing the idea of social interaction in economic and cultural exchange, especially thr...

Faced with the preventive measures of the COVID-19 pandemic, many orchestras have been unable to organise traditional performances and other activities that require in-person interactions. In this new normal, orchestral organisations and musicians have had to seek alternative methods of running the programme. The Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute...

One of the core courses of the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music’s (PGVIM’s) undergraduate music programme, entitled ‘Music for Society,’ has been running since 2014. The course aims to benefit students by focusing on their learning outcome, developing their skills in leadership, and enhancing their social awareness, organisation, perform...

Pang MaPha Highland, in the Mae Hong Son Province of the northern part of Thailand, was a good starting point for experimenting with cross-cultural process in music through music learning, interpreting, performing and transmitting. The project developed through the idea of performing ethnomusicology based on fieldwork inspired by the pioneering wor...

The study of The Process behind the First Concert Organised by the Thailand Higher Education Music Student Network is a participatory action research. The objectives are to study the process and organisation of the concert entitled “SUMHUA Concert: Roekngan (Auspicious)” which corresponded with the idea of PDCA method in the second phase of study;...

Aksornsilpa Music and Arts Camp has been an ongoing development since 2018 on the field at Mae Ok Hu village, Mae La, Tha Song Yang district, Tak province, Thailand, which constitutes the Karen community. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Foundation provides funding for the volunteer camp and other participating universities. In 2019, the framework focuses o...

The doctoral music composition focuses on the cross-cultural aspects of the music of the hill tribes, Hmong, Black Lahu and Red Lahu found in the Pang Mapha district of the Mae Hong Son province in Thailand. The work combines the reinterpretation of idiomatic materials as well as the transmission of cultural knowledge through educational performanc...

Music culture and education in Western countries are different from those of Thailand in that state-funded music education from the primary to the university level is available in the West, which facilitates the appreciation of music in the community as a whole. Thailand, meanwhile, has no public policy to support classical music education in prima...

In 2015, the Aksornsilpa Committee Board, an academic entity, established a collaboration with four educational institutions, namely Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi and Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. This committee was created in order to raise funds to build a multi-pu...

Aksornsilpa Music and Arts Camp Program II was designed to develop the ideals and skills of university students. Our team and students camped and worked on-site at Mae Ok Hu village, Mae La, Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province, Thailand to conduct a theatre play project between the local school students and the university students. Such initiative...

This work was inspired by my fieldwork conducted in January 2017 at Pang Ma Pha in Mae Hong Son province in the Northern part of Thailand. There, I worked with the musician guru Fu Deua, Lisu who taught me about the folk music. He shared many tunes among which was a song entitled "Pi Sao Ma Douay" (Sister comes with me), performed on the Fulu, a Li...

According to the data surveyed in 2014, there are now more than 100 curriculums in music that are taught in universities and institutes around Thailand, also with an increasing number of music graduates that are finishing every year, what would be the possible solution for their opportunity in the competing market as a musician? This paper explores...

"Performing across dialects: Interpretation of Mayuraphirom‘ on Viola and Piano" concentrate on the idea of performing Thai Traditional piece through combine methods of traditional music and classical music. The performers learn the piece by hearing, memorising and performing the piece in traditional manner. This will lead to the change in performa...

According to the data surveyed in 2014, there are now more than 100 curriculums in music that are taught in universities and institutes around Thailand, also with an increasing number of music graduates that are finishing every year, what would be the possible solution for their opportunity in the competing market as a musician? This paper explore...