Trisdee na Patalung

{{Short description|Thai composer and conductor}}

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Trisdee na Patalung ({{langx|th|ทฤษฎี ณ พัทลุง}}; {{RTGS|Thritsadi Na Phatthalung}}; born 9 March 1986) is a Thai composer and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble and the Resident Conductor of the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok.{{cite web |url=http://www.bangkokopera.com/contact.html |title=Contacts |work=Bangkok Opera website |accessdate=August 20, 2011}}

Na Patalung began studying music at the age of 13.{{cite news |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/09/04/opinion/It-takes-three-for-talent-to-tango-30137259.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915000603/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/09/04/opinion/It-takes-three-for-talent-to-tango-30137259.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 15, 2010 |title=It takes three for talent to tango |newspaper=The Nation |first=Veena |last=Thoopkrajae |date=September 4, 2010 |accessdate=August 20, 2011}} At the age of 15, he stopped his formal education when he met Somtow Sucharitkul, who became his teacher and mentor. At the same time, he began working for the Bangkok Opera as a repetiteur and an assistant conductor.

Na Patalung made his operatic conducting debut in 2006 in a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.{{cite web |url=http://www.operastudio.nl/engpages/3018patalung.html |title=Trisdee na Patalung |work=Opera Studio Nederland |accessdate=August 21, 2011}}

He has written two symphonies that he also conducted with the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked regularly with the Opera Studio Nederland since 2005 and became a permanent member in 2006.

In 2008, his composition Eternity was performed during the funeral of Princess Galyani Vadhana. In 2009, he made his Italian debut conducting Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro.{{cite news |url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/arts-and-culture/film/17216/ |title=Orchestration of Talents with the Same Tune |newspaper=Bangkok Post |date=May 23, 2009 |accessdate=August 20, 2011}}{{cite news |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/12/29/life/-Genius-with-a-baton-30145401.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230054/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/12/29/life/-Genius-with-a-baton-30145401.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |title=Careful of conductor Trisdee na Patalung - his hero is the hilariously wicked Blackadder |newspaper=The Nation |first=Manote |last=Tripathi |date=December 29, 2010 |accessdate=August 20, 2011}}

In July 2011, na Patalung conducted the second revival performance of Sucharitkul's opera Mae Naak based on the Thai ghost story of the same name at the Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre in Bangkok.{{cite web |url=http://www.eladelantado.com/noticia/internacional/130863/terror_para_cantar_al_amor |title=Terror para cantar al amor |work=El Adelanto.com |date=August 15, 2011 |accessdate=August 21, 2011 |language=Spanish}} He also conducted the London premiere of this work at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, in September 2011.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1593|title = Bloomsbury Theatre & Studio Events|date = 4 November 2019}}

On July 27, 2011, na Patalung conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai at the Organalia music festival in Turin, Italy.{{cite web |url=http://www.localport.it/eventi/notizie/notizie_espansa.asp?N=77587 |title=Si chiude con successo Organalia |work=LOcalport |date=August 2, 2011 |accessdate=August 21, 2011 |language=Italian |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929090208/http://www.localport.it/eventi/notizie/notizie_espansa.asp?N=77587 |archivedate=September 29, 2011 }}