Wasin Prasertlap

Award-winning pianist Wasin Prasertlap has performed as a soloist and collaborative musician in Southeast Asia, the US and Eastern Europe. Among his many prizes, he was awarded First Prize at Thailand’s 1st National Piano Concerto Competition and won the Crescendo Summer Institute Chamber Music Competition in Sárospatak, Hungary in 2012. 

A recipient of the Peabody Scholarship and the Yong Siew Toh Scholarship, Wasin earned a Graduate Performance Diploma and Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, where he was awarded the Pauline Favin Memorial Award upon graduation. Prior to that, he received the Bachelor of Music in degree in Piano Performance from the National University of Singapore. His former teachers included Benjamin Pasternack, Thomas Hecht, Artas Balakauskas and Indhuon Srikaranonda-Balakauskas. He has additionally been coached by diverse international artists, including Leon Fleisher, Yefim Bronfman, Angela Hewitt, Boris Berman, Martin Helmchen, Peter Frankl, Michael Kannen and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher.

In March 2016, Wasin was invited to perform in the concert "Pray for Japan Vol. 8", and in August, he performed Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody with the Thai Youth Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Akkrawat Srinarong.

Wasin has been teaching at SOONER The Classical Music School since January 2015, which his students have won several prizes in various competitions. Wasin also teaches major piano, chamber music, and piano collaborative at The Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music.