Biography

Anak Baiharn is a Thai composer current based in Ithaca, NY. He enjoys composing music that engages with and transforms pre-existing, more mainstream musical works. Anak has collaborated with a range of ensembles, festivals, and organizations, and has participated in several music programs and 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; 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 and the 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 2024 (with the Arditti Quartet), Score Follower (2024 and 2026), Florida State University Festival of New Music 2024 (with the University Symphony Orchestra), the Young Thai Artist Award 2023 (winner, with TACETi Ensemble), Int-Act Festival 2020 (with the Thailand Techno Orchestra).

Anak has a BM from the College of Music, Mahidol University, an MA from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently pursuing a DMA at the Cornell University Department of Music.