Chanyapong Thongsawang, Thai pianist and musicologist, received his PhD in musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2015. Parallel to his PhD studies, he was a postgraduate piano student and took part in a fortepiano class at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. Currently he is a full time lecturer at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. His research focuses on the piano museum in Bangkok and Thai art song arrangements.

Chanyapong was a piano student of Nat Yontararak in Bangkok from 1995 to 2004. Further study followed at Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland, where he took lessons on piano, harpsichord and pianoforte. He obtained master’s degrees both in Music Performance (2008) and Music Pedagogy (2010) there.

Apart from his musical talent, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Chulalongkorn University.