Phu Koanantakool

Phu Koanantakool was born in 1985. He was a speed metal drummer before he began to study piano at 17

with Ajarn Komkam Chaleypoj.

He was admitted to Silpakorn University in 2003 and studied under Jun Komatsu and Jamorn Supapol

respectively. Phu passed the entrance examination at the prestigious Mozarteum in 2005 and studied under

Prof. Gereon Kleiner.

Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, his devotion to the instrument has become one of the most

sought-after pianists in both Thailand and abroad.

He has taken master classes receiving the valuable influence of many great artists, such as L. Grychtołowna,

K. Popowa- Zydroń, R. Levin, A. Schiff, K.H. Kämmerling, A.Jasinski, H. Leygraf, D. Bashkirov, G. Steinschaden,

G. Romero, O. Łazarska, S. Kutrzeba, S. Dorenski, M. Szczepanski, R. Plagge, M. Mollova and J.F. Antonioli. He

has also taken private classes with many artists, such as D. Parakhina, V.Krainev, P. Zereu, S. Koch, M.

Ivanova, B. Lerner, Eri Nakagawa, W. Schmitt-Leonardy, C. Keller and S. Bhanomyong. He was also one of the

last pupils of the late Thailand National Artist Piyabhand Sanitwongse na Ayutthaya.

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from HEMU Haute Ecole de Musique (University of

Music Lausanne) and studied with J.F. Antonioli and R. Castro. He also received chamber music lessons from

Vincent Coq. He went on to study his Master’s degree at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music under the

tutelage of P. Paleczny and chamber music under the guidance of K. Jankowska.

Phu has performed in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hungary and Russia and

made his native debut in Bangkok back in 2010, performing the whole 24 Chopin’s études and is still the only

Thai pianist who has achieved this feat. In 2022 He became the first Thai pianist who performed the complete

set of Liszt’s 12 Études d'exécution transcendante.

In 2023 season Phu just made his Belgium and Hungary debut by performing solo recitals in Ghent and at

the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest.