Piyawat Louilarpprasert and Charles Peck have both received a 2018 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from The ASCAP Foundation. This prize, which carries a financial award, is offered to talented young composers of concert music ranging in age from 12 to 30.
Charles Peck currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
Piyawat Louilarpprasert, in addition to his Morton Gould Young Composer Award, has also been named a finalist in the International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition. The final round of the competition will take place in St. Petersburg on May 23.