Trisdee na Patalung
Trisdee na Patalung (b. 1986) began his musical education at the age of 13 before being ‘discovered’ at 15 by composer and conductor Somtow Sucharitkul and soon afterwards became Bangkok Opera’s resident repetiteur. He has appeared as solo singer, concert pianist, harpsichordist, accompanist, orchestra member, composer and conductor, as well as behind-the-scenes work as repetiteur and chorus master, and is currently Bangkok Opera’s resident conductor.
As a composer, he has written several chamber works and two symphonies, which have both been performed under the composer's baton. His most recent composition Eternity, written in memory of the late Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand was performed at the Thai royal cremation ground in 2008.
His operatic conducting debut in 2006 in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte brought him to the attention of a wider musical world. He works extensively in Amsterdam for the Netherlands Opera Studio as conductor and resident coach. He was music director of a staged performance of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar directed by Harry Kupfer, as well as a performance of Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Concertgebouw, and has just completed a highly acclaimed engagement as conductor at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy with Il viaggio a Reims.
His most recent performances as an opera conductor include Britten's Rape of Lucretia at the Hanoi Opera House, Charpentier's La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers at the Concertgebouw, the Steyr festival's production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and Bangkok Opera's productions of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor and Salieri's Prima la musica poi le parole.
Of Trisdee’s conducting of Die Zauberflöte, UK’s OPERA magazine said, “If the word ‘genius’ still has any meaning in this age of rampant hyperbole, Trisdee is truly a living example.”
2002
Requiem: In Memoriam 9/11 by Somtow Sucharitkul (World Premiere)
Rehearsal pianist
Symphony No. 1 (1st version) by Trisdee na Patalung (World Premiere)
Conducted by Somtow Sucharitkul
Formed a youth chamber ensemble, I Musicini
Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 - I Musicini (Thailand Premiere)
Direction - Harpsichord, Recorder
Dido & Aeneas
Repetiteur, Continuo, Mercury
2003
Mae Naak, an opera by Somtow Sucharitkul (World Premiere)
Repetiteur
Die Zauberflöte
Repetiteur, Dritte Knabe
Mozart Piano Concerto, K. 488
Concerto Debut
Come, ye sons of art, away - Henry Purcell
Countertenor soloist
Brahms Requiem (Ein Deutsche Requiem)
Assistant conductor
The Turn of the Screw
Repetiteur
2004
Hansel and Gretel (Singapore Lyric Opera)
Repetiteur
Symphony No. 1 (full version) by Trisdee na Patalung
MIFA Sinfonietta
Conductor (conducting debut)
Mozart Piano Concerto, K. 595
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra (Somtow Sucharitkul, conductor)
Soloist
Turandot
Repetiteur
Dixit Dominus (Händel)
Continuo (harpsichord)
Magnificat (J.S. Bach)
Continuo (organ)
Complete Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Thailand Premiere)
Piano
Mozart 'Great' Mass in C minor
Assistant conductor
Vivaldi Recorder Concertos with I Musicini and Horacio Franco (recorder)
Harpsichord continuo
Don Giovanni (Bangkok Opera)
Repetiteur, Banda conductor
Mozart Requiem
Alto soloist
2005
Der Schauspieldirektor (Opera Studio Nederland)
Comprimario role
Master class with Ann Murray (at the Conservatory of Amsterdam)
Accompanist
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor with Austria's Haydn Quartett
Piano
Aida (Bangkok Opera)
Repetiteur, Offstage chorus conductor
Symphony No. 2 by Trisdee na Patalung (World Premiere)
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Orfeo Intermezzi by Opera O.T. (part of the Opera Dagen Rotterdam)
Repetiteur, Pianist
Mae Naak (revival) by Somtow Sucharitkul
Repetiteur
Founded the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble, Thailand's first baroque ensemble
Baroque Pearls concert, premiere concert of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble
Harpsichord, Direction
Die Zauberflöte (abridged) with Opera Studio Nederland, in Amsterdam (Jeppe Moulijn, conductor)
Assistant Conductor
2006
Das Rheingold (Bangkok Opera)
Repetiteur, Assistant conductor, Anvils conductor
Die Zauberflöte (Bangkok Opera)
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Cosi fan Tutte (Bangkok Opera)
Repetiteur
Handel's Belshazzar (Harry Kupfer, director) Opera Studio Nederland, Amsterdam
Music director
Moved by Marais A recital of music by Marin Marais, with Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks on the viola da gamba.
Harpsichord
Bangkok Opera's Fifth Birthday Gala
Bangkok Baroque Ensemble performs music by Monteverdi and Vivaldi
Harpsichord, Direction
Monteverdi Avond An all-monteverdi concert at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, kleine zaal. (Opera Studio Nederland)
Conductor, Harpsichord, Organ
2007
Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Hans Nieuwenhuis, director)
Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi, Vietnam (Bangkok Opera)
Conductor
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
Steyr Festival, Austria
Assistant Conductor, Conductor
Mahler Symphony No. 3
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, Kazushi Ono, conductor
Assistant Conductor
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Opera Studio Nederland)
Conductor, Harpichord
2008
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23, K 488
with the Siam Philharmonic (Somtow Sucharitkul, conductor)
Pianist
Bach, Goldberg Variations
Goethe Institut, Bangkok
Pianist
Haydn, Te Deum
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orpheus Choir of Bangkok
Conductor
Mozart, Jupiter Symphony
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Beethoven, Choral Fantasy
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orpheus Choir of Bangkok
Conductor
Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Second Conductor
ETERNITY in memoriam HRH Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra (Somnuek Saeng-arun: Pi Java)
Composer, Conductor
Haydn Farewell Symphony
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Mozart Der Schauspieldirektor
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Bangkok Opera
Conductor
Salieri Prima la musica e poi le parole
Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Bangkok Opera
Conductor
2009
Rossini, Il viaggio a Reims
Rossini Opera Festival, Edizione XXX
Conductor
Beethoven, Mozart, and Elgar
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor
Händel, Messiah
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Coro Haydn
Conductor