About Me
Recipient of the Silpathorn Award 2009, Denny Euprasert earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Jazz Piano Performance from Cornish College of the Arts, a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from University of North Texas, and a Doctor of Arts degree in Music Theory and Composition with a secondary emphasis in Jazz Pedagogy from University of Northern Colorado, USA. Having performed with David Liebman, Nicholas Payton, Maria Schneider, Bob Brookmeyer, Deborah Brown, Kenny Wheeler, Mike Stern, Chris Minh Doky, Joris Teepe, and Benny Golson, he is also featured regularly as a piano soloist with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. Recent festival appearances as a leader include headlining at the Bangkok Jazz Festival, the Hua Hin Jazz Festival, and the Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan. Other festival appearances include the Bellevue Jazz Festival, the San Diego City College Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Wichita Jazz Festival, and Greeley Jazz Festival. Denny's CD "Masterpiece" received the Kom Chad Luek Award for Best Instrumental Album 2008; the album features unique jazz arrangements of Asanee-Wason's music. His latest CD "S' Wonderful: A Jazz Standard Project" is released under the GMM Grammy Record Label. He has composed numerous works for piano solo, piano and orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, jazz ensemble, jazz orchestra, voice and piano, and contemporary media. Denny Euprasert is currently the Dean of Rangsit University Conservatory of Music and is the conductor of Rangsit Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a Yamaha Artist endorsing Yamaha acoustic pianos and Yamaha keyboards.        
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Favorite Music
Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, North Texas Wind Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Phiharmoniker, ...
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Favorite Movies
Immortal Beloved, Round Midnight, Bird, Amadeus, Copying Beethoven, August Rush, ...
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Seinfeld, Friends, the Simpsons, Planet Earth, Explorer, Nodame Cantabile, ...
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Favorite Books
Thinking in Jazz, Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, Craft of Musical Composition, To Boulez and Beyond, Philosophy in a New Key, ...
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Favorite Quote
“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.” - Herbie Hancock
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Friday, July 10, 2009, 10:30PM Dave Camwell (Saxophone) Denny Euprasert (Piano) Napat Piriyakijsarun (Drums) Siraphop Sitson (Bass) Changton Kunjara (Guitar)
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