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Dr. Chindarat Charoenwongse
ccharoenwongse@ucok.edu
Chindarat Charoenwongse is from Bangkok, Thailand, and teaches piano, piano pedagogy, piano literature, and class piano. She received a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts in Piano Performance with first class honors from Chulalongkorn University, and Performer’s Diplomas from Trinity College of Music. As a Fulbright scholar, she graduated with a Master of Music from Eastman School of Music. She obtained Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from University of Oklahoma.
Her international performances include concertos with the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Orchestra of Chulalongkorn University, Chulalongkorn University Symphony Orchestra for Her Royal Highness Princess Galayani Vaddhana. In June 2006, she performed as a soloist with the Thai National Symphony Orchestra to honor His Majesty the King of Thailand’s 60th Anniversary of His Accession to the Throne. As a chamber musician, she won the second prize from Channing Classics with her piano trio.
She studied piano with Nina Svetlanova, Barry Snyder, Anton Nel, Rebecca Penneys, Malcolm Bilson, and Edward Gates. Her piano pedagogy studies were with Tony Caramia, Jane Magrath, and E.L. Lancaster.
Prior to joining the University of Central Oklahoma faculty, she taught at Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, and Chintakarn Music Institute where she served as the director of piano department. An active piano pedagogy clinician, she presented both in Oklahoma and Thailand workshops, master-classes, and lectures for Alfred and Hal Leonard publications on various university campuses including Mahidol University, Rangsit University, and Srinakharinwirot University.
Currently, she serves as the Piano and Keyboard Studies Division Head at UCO.