“Memoirs of Peru” Concert

On Sunday, May 12, 2019, the concert “Memoirs of Peru” took place in the Sala Sudasiri Sobha in Bangkok, by Thai musicians Usa Napawan (piano) and Chaiphat Tripipitsiriwat (clarinet), who performed pieces by various Latin American and International masters, two of them accompanied by young Thai oboe and clarinet interpreters.

The Thai artists dedicated the concert to the musical experience acquired at the 4th Latin American Clarinets Congress “MUSICA DEL MUNDO” which took place in Lima, in February 2019, organized by the School of Music of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

The highlight of this concert is “Carnaval Arequipeño” as well as other pieces written by the Italian composer Michele Mangani, whom they met in Lima. At the end of the concert, the Ambassador of Peru, as the guest of honor, presented acknowledgments to Thai musicians. Afterward, the organizers offered a cocktail with Peruvian cuisine.

This concert materializes the “people to people” contacts between musicians and cultures of Peru and Thailand, in which the Peruvian clarinetist Marco Antonio Mazzini, professor of music of PUCP, will visit Thailand next October for the third consecutive year, to engage as Music Professor at the “Thailand International Clarinet Academy” and the “Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music.”