Pete Thanapat

Bass-baritone Pete Thanapat is the second prize winner at the Debut Competition 2024 in Germany. Upcoming performances this season include the role of Roucher in André Chénier at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris. He will also perform the bass solo in Verdi's Requiem alongside renowned soprano Krassimira Stoyanova at the March Music Days Ruse, in Bulgaria and will return to the Bregenz Festival to portray Marchese d'Obigny in La Traviata on the Seebühne in 2026.
Pete was a finalist at the 6th Eva Marton Competition in 2024. In 2022, he participated in the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. The same year, he was in the final round of Neue Stimmen and a finalist of the 40th International Belvedere Singing Competition,  and secured second prize at the 26th International Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition. He notably won the Perry Nelson Prize at the 11th International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition in 2019. He was also a participant in SWR Junge Opernstars 2023 in Kaiserslautern and Landau.

Pete completed his master's degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under the guidance of KS Krassimira Stoyanova and KS Angelika Kirchschlager for Lieder. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the singing class of Prof. Mario Diaz and the Lieder class of Prof. Pauliina Tukiainen. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1995, Pete speaks Thai, English, German, and has basic knowledge of Italian, currently studying French and Russian.

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