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MANAGEMENT

Saran Deva Suebsantiwongse
[Artistic and Managing Director]

Thailand's foremost baritone , Saran was educated at the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London where he was a Chevening Scholar in the Advanced Postgraduate Course in Opera Studies. He was also a recipient of the 'Young Thai Musicians Scholarship Fund' awarded by HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana.

He sang the roles of Papageno, Donner and Gugliemo with the Bangkok Opera, Plutone with Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Fiorello and Baron Duphol with the Singapore Lyric Opera. Additionally, Saran sang the lead role of Pan in a staged production of Bach's Der Streit Zwischen Phoebus und Pan with the New York Baroque Soloists and made his European debut as Pisandre in Fauré’s Penelope and Second Man in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah at Wexford Festival Opera in 2005.
 
In 2007, he founded an opera/performing arts company, NUNi Productions, with an aim to create international standard performances in Thailand as well as to provide more opportunities for young Thai artists to perform in professional productions. Saran also sang the roles of Count Almaviva, Gugliemo and Enrico (Il campanello) in his company's new productions.

Also highly demand as a concert singer, Saran also appeared frequently in concerts including Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Paukenmesse and Tippett's Child of Our Time with the Bangkok Opera, Chapentier's Te Deum and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Louveciennes Chamber Choir and was the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with Shrewsbury International Choir and sang the role of Manoa in Handel's Samson for the Bangkok Music Society.

Currently, he is the Professor of Voice at the Silpakorn University and Director of Vocal Programming at KPN Music.  Saran also received a full scholarship from The Ministry of Education's Commission of Higher Education and the University of Music and Arts Vienna for the international voice teacher training programme in Vienna, Austria.

saran@nuniproductions.com

Pattarasuda (Bua) Anuman Rajadhon
[Director]

Pattarasuda completed her bachelor ’s degree in Dramatic Arts at Chulalongkorn University and a Master of Arts in Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London before returning to Thailand to pursue an active career in the dramatic arts. The summer of 2006 saw Pattarasuda return to the UK for a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Directing Course.

In demand as an actor, she has appeared in Albee’s American Dream, Tremblay’s Les Belle Soeurs, Wedekind’s Spring’s Awakening, Dietz’s Private Eye and King Rama V’s Nitra Chakrit. She currently teaches drama at Assumption University and MIFA Master Artist Academy. She has also taught at the American School of Bangkok and served as acting coach for Academy Fantasia Season 3. She has also been active in the opera community as assistant director and stage manager for Bangkok Opera’s productions of Die Zauberflöte, Das Rheingold, Così fan tutte and the world-premiere of Ayodhya. Pattarasuda also writes freelance for Thai magazines such as DDT Magazine and CLEO.

bua@nuniproductions.com