Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) is under the patronage of the Royal Thai Government, and College of Music, Mahidol University. Its mission is to perform and to entertain the mass public with the intention to educate music as an art form by developing outreach programs.

One of Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra’s primary goals is to gather the highest caliber musicians in Thailand and to nurture the orchestra and strive for national and international status. Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra is further dedicated to promote the arts, music and culture of Thailand. The TPO performs and embraces every form of symphonic orchestral music including ethnic and non-western music.

Gudni A. Emilsson, Conductor

Emilsson has won numerous national and international prizes including 1 st Prize in Biel / Bienne Switzerland 1992, 2 nd Prize by “Masterplayers” - Competition Lugano 1994.

In this year he received the special Award from the Foundation "LIND" in Iceland . At the same time he was awarded by the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation Salzburg .

The Masaryk University of Prague awarded him the “Artist Prize” 2002.

He gave guest performances all over Europe with great acclaim, with Orchestras such as Stuttgart Philharmonic, Goettinger Symphony Orchestra, N?rnberg Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Prague, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bankja Chamber Orchestra of Sofia, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Bulgaria , State Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki, Arctic Chamber Orchestra USA , Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Prague and North West Germany Philharmonic.