Overview
Anak Baiharn is a composer interested in time, repetition, and audience perception. He also enjoys composing music that engages with and transforms pre-existing musical works. Anak has collaborated with a range of ensembles, festivals, and organizations, and has participated in various music competitions. These include participation in the 81st Composers Conference at Avaloch Farm Music Institute (supported by the Fromm Foundation); the Emerging Composers Completion Grant from ARTZenter in conjunction with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (world premeiere and grant recipient); the 31st Young Composers Meeting (recipient of the Orkest De Ereprijs Commission Prize); finalist selection in the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; and finalist selection (2024/25) and honorable mention (2025/26) in the Red Note Music Composition Competition (Chamber Category). He is also the recipient of the 2025 Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize, the winner of the OSSIA International Call for Works (2023/24), a selected participant in the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble's New Music Festival (2025), and the winner of the Horizon Ensemble Call for Scores (2026).
Other performances and collaborations include the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 2024 (supported by ASCAP and commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting), June in Buffalo 2024 (with the Arditti Quartet), Score Follower (Spring 2024), Florida State University Festival of New Music (with the University Symphony Orchestra), the Young Thai Artist Award 2023 (winner, with TACETi Ensemble), Int-Act Festival 2020 (with the Thailand Techno Orchestra), Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Borneo Ensemble, Triphens (---) Ensemble, Gusto Saxophone Quartet, Wind Band Association of Singapore Composition Competition (finalist, 2019), Manila Composers Lab, New Opera Singapore, and the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music International Symposium.
Anak received his BM from the College of Music at Mahidol University, where he studied composition with Narong Prangcharoen and electronic music composition with Jason Thorpe Buchanan. He earned his MA from the Eastman School of Music, where he served as an assistant at the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE). While at Eastman, he was awarded a full scholarship and received the Samuel Adler and Warren Benson Scholarships. His teachers included Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Elizabeth Ogonek, Mikel Kuehn, Evis Sammoutis, and Daniel Pesca.
Anak is also the founder of Triphens (---) Ensemble, a Thailand-based student-run ensemble established in 2023.