May Pitchayapa Lueangtawikit

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Currently studies violin at the University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK) under Prof. Marianne Boettcher and at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar in Prof. Andreas Hartmann’s class. May receive chamber music lessons by the renowned Artemis Quartett. 

May regularly performs as a soloist, chamber music musician and orchestral musician.

As a chamber music musician, May formed Mixis Quartett at the UdK Berlin and performs numerous concerts in Berlin. As a orchestral musician May is an academist member at the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt radio Symphony) in Frankfurt. May is a scholarship holder of the Paul-Hindemith-Society in Berlin and the Ad Infinitum Foundation, DAAD and the Lucia Loeser Foundation. 

 

May graduated the Pre-College program from College of Music, Mahidol University under Paris Parachoudis and received private lessons by Leo Phillips.

May has collaborated as a violin soloist with several orchestras. 

In the year 2012 marked May’s first ever professional debut concert with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra performing Max Bruch Violin Concerto no.1 conducted by Italian conductor Alfonso Scarano. Consecutively in 2013, May got invited to perform  Saint-Saens Violin Concerto no.3 with Jeffrey Meyer and in 2014, May played Symphonie Espaganole Lalo with the orchestra under the baton of Claude Villaret. The Pro Musica offered May a chance to play Bach Concerto for 2 violins with Leo Phillips. 

In 2016, May performed Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with an orchestra at Obergurgl in Austria. 

And the following year, May had a chance to perform as the world premiere of René Mense Violin Concerto with the Waldsbeker Symphony Orchestra at Hamburg in Germany. 

 

May attended various masterclasses by many violinists such as   Eduard Schmieider, Vadim Gluzman, Christoph Poppen, Rudolf Koelman, Boris Belkin, Christian Altenburger, Tanja Becker-Bender and chamber music masterclasses by Wolfgang Boettcher and Lukas Hagen.

 

She has been awarded several prizes at national and international competitions such as: 

In 2009, she received the first prize of Anzca Modern Violin Competition, which was her first national competition. 

In the same year, she received the gold medal prize of The Settrade Young Musician Competition.
 

In 2011, she received the gold medal prize of The 14th Settrade Young Musician Competition.
 

In 2012, she received the second prize of The Sixth Conrad Young Musician of Thailand 2012

In 2013, she won the first prize of Mahidol University Concerto Competition, she received the third gold medal prize of The 16th Settrade Young Musician Competition.
 

In 2014, May won two first prizes of Princess Galyani Vadhana International Ensemble Competition for piano trio category and string ensemble category, May received the first gold medal prize of The 17th Set Young Musician competition, May received the first prize from the 8th Beethoven String Competition in Thailand.