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Amy Suwannatat is a nineteen-year-old pianist from Port Washington, NY. Most recently, she was awarded the first prize as a winner of the 2020 "Golden Classical Music Awards" International Competition.

In May 2019, she performed for the reception of the King of Thailand's Royal Coronation at the Metropolitan Club in NYC.

"It was a wonderful experience and the highest honor as a student to be able to perform for the Coronation Ceremony of King Rama X", she said.

Amy began to play the piano when she was four years old, at the iSchool of Music and Arts, before she went to study with Pippa Borisy (who has since remained one of her piano teachers) at the Great Neck Music Conservatory.

At the age of thirteen, she continued her music education at the CPSM Pre-College program with Dr. Donald Pirone at Queens College. Amy has played in her school's pit orchestra, concert band, and jazz band, and has also accompanied for her school's choir as well.

Amy has performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital through GNCM High Honor's Concerts multiple times as a soloist and chamber musician since she was 9 years old. She was a Grand Prix Winner of the Concert Festival International Competition and a First Place Winner of the American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music 2017.

She attended Music Fest Perugia in Italy and won the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Alicante Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and returned in 2018 to play the first movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra.

In the fall of 2018, Amy played at the 13th Piano Showcase for

NYSSMA All-State Conference in Rochester, NY and was also a First Place Winner of the American Protégé International Concerto Competition 2019. She is eagerly looking forward to her 10th season at the annual Oyster Bay Music Festival in the summer of 2021.

In addition, Amy likes to draw sketches in her spare time and has an affinity for biology and 70s interior design. Thunderstorms are her favorite kind of weather and she enjoys spending the summertime with her extended family in Thailand.