Biography

Anak Baiharn is a composer with a fascination for a diverse array of musical styles. He 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 several music programs and competitions. These include the 81st Composers Conference at Avaloch Farm Music Institute (supported by the Fromm Foundation), the 31st Young Composers Meeting (recipient of the Orkest De Ereprijs Commission Prize), and finalist selections in the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the 2024/25 Red Note Music Composition Competition (Chamber Category). He is also the recipient of the 2025 Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize and winner of the Ossia International Call for Works 2023/24. 

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 (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.

As a recipient of the Samuel Adler Scholarship, Anak is pursuing a Master of Arts in Composition at Eastman School of Music with a full scholarship. He is currently studying in Dr. Evis Sammoutis' studio. Alongside his studies, Anak holds an assistant position at the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE) under the direction of Dr. Mikel Kuehn. Anak earned a Bachelor of Music in composition from the College of Music, Mahidol University, where he studied with Dr. Narong Prangcharoen and Dr. Jason Thorpe Buchanan. 

Anak is the founder of Triphens (---) Ensemble, a Thai-based student-run ensemble established in 2023.