Bundit Ungrangsee
Bundit Ungrangsee ( Thai : บัณฑิต อึ้ง รัง ษี , RTGS : Banthit Uengrangsi; * December 7, 1970 ) is a Thai conductor of Chinese origin.
Bundit Ungrangsee graduated from the University of Michigan . The student of Jorma Panula and Lorin Maazel won a Leonard Bernstein conducting scholarship in 1998 and attended a course with Jorma Panula Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood . In 1998 he reached the semifinals of the Besançon competition, and in 1999 he was the winner of the International Competition for Young Conductors in Lisbon. In 2002 he was one of the two winners of the Maazel Vilar Conducting Competition organized by Carnegie Hall in New York with jurors Lorin Maazel, Kyung-wha Chung , Glenn Dicterow and Krzysztof Penderecki .
Since then, Bundit has conducted more than 500 concerts with over forty orchestras, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York, the Utah Symphony , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo, the Auckland Philharmonia , the Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia , the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra , the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and the South Korean Busan Philharmonic Orchestra . Since 2005 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra , with which he toured Thailand in 2007.
The soloists with whom Bundit has worked include a. Maxim Vengerov , Julia Migenes , Joseph Alessi , Katia and Marielle Labèque , Christopher Parkening , Christine Brewer and Elmer Bernstein . In 2004 he recorded an album of Mozart's flute concertos with Paula Robison and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra on Arabesque Records .
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| SURNAME | Bundit Ungrangsee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | บัณฑิต อึ้ง รัง ษี (th) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai conductor of Chinese origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1970 |