Poom Prommachart

Steinway Artist, Poom Prommachart is currently a Creative Music Director of Tutan Entertainment, the Artistic Director of the Steinway Youth Piano Competition in Thailand and an Elite Fellow of University Malaya’s Music Faculty.

Just recently in May 2023, he was awarded the Best Solo Performance Instrumental - Music by the BOH Cameronian 18th Arts Awards.

In 2022, Poom received the ‘Rector’s List of Honour for the Most Exceptional Graduates’ from the University of Montreal’s Doctor of Music programme. He received his Bachelor of Music degree, Master of Music degree, and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London (RCM) in 2014 on a full scholarship sponsored by H.R.H Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand and the RCM and obtained the most coveted Tagore Gold Medal during his time in London, which was handed to him by King Chalres III of United Kingdom. Subsequently, he has also studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia.

After his performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor with the London Musician Symphony Orchestra in 2010, he was applauded by critics who referred to him as “a youthful Ashkenazy” in "Seen and Heard UK Concert Review". Furthermore,in 2023, the Pianomania praised his performance of Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28, “No performance of the Chopin Preludes has captivated as much as this since the late-lamented Fou Tsong’s in the same hall in 1993, some thirty years ago..(Poom) made the audience listen to Chopin with new pairs of ears”

Poom’s international performing career began in 2010, when he won the gold medal in Serbia’s Fifth Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition. Since then, he has won many prizes and performed with notable orchestras he has recently worked with include Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra, London Musician Symphony Orchestra, Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra of România, National Symphony Orchestra of Serbia, Worthing Symphony Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, and Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. His recent major concert engagements included piano recitals at Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, Belgrade Kolarac Hall in Serbia, Seoul Arts Center in Seoul and Busan, South Korea, Esplanade Hall in Singapore, South Bank and Royal Albert Hall in the U.K., Music Festival Perugia in Italy and Suntory Hall in Japan. In 2020, Poom won first the grand prize at the Orford Music Award, Canada and a coming concert tour with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

His mentors have included distinguished pianists such as Dang Thai Son, Dina Parakhina, Vladimir Tropp, Eliso Virsalaze, Peerapong Surawan, Rena Phua and Ian Jones.