Founder and Director: Chulayuth Lochotinan

Chulayuth Lochotinan enjoys a multi-faceted career as a management consulting professional as well as a conductor. Formally a consultant in Financial Services at Accenture, PwC and EY, he is currently a Partner at Capco.

Chulayuth has often been invited as a guest lecturer and speaker at various institutions such as Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Thailand International Education Expo, TEDxChulalongkornU and ThailandSPIN. He is a member of The Rotary Club of Bangkok, an executive committee member of the Old England Students Association and recognised as an Artist for Amnesty for Amnesty International.

As a conductor, he has worked with numerous orchestras. At University of Oxford, he was a conductor of Trinity Orchestra and actively performed in concerts, which included the Oxford Charity Concert fund raising in aid of the Sudan Crisis through Oxfam. While working as a consultant for Accenture in London, he continued to give public performances which included conducting the UBS Orchestra in a fundraising concert for The Bridge Academy, Prince Charles' 'The Prince's Trust' and the UK Premiere of Alvin Curran's 'Maritime Rites' at the Millennium Bridge in London.

In 2010, Chulayuth founded the Bangkok Charity Orchestra (BCO), the first orchestra in Thailand to be committed to perform to raise funds to support Thai charities. The orchestra has since raised substantial fund to support various charity projects and has won the Thomson Reuters Community Champion Award in 2011.

With a keen interest in giving opportunities for young musicians to develop and enhance their performing experiences, Chulayuth organised Thailand's first Steinway Youth Piano Competition in 2012 and was invited to be a judge for the Steinway Competitions in Singapore and Brunei.

Chulayuth began studying the piano at four years of age with Dr. Motoko Funakoshi at Robinson School of Music in Thailand. He was a Music Scholar at Harrow School in England where he received piano tuition from Colin Stone and took up violin as a second instrument under tuition of Dimitar Burov. He regularly performed as a soloist as well as in ensembles and won numerous First Prize of the Annual Piano Competitions. He was granted the Leadership Award by His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan in 1999. He performed in various concerts with the Harrow School Orchestra, including the 'Millennium Churchill Songs' at the Royal Albert Hall in 2000.

Chulayuth graduated with a Master in Engineering Science from Trinity College, University of Oxford.