Bangkok--19 Jun--tamnakprathom Seven young, international concert artists, together with the Tamnak Prathom Harp Ensemble, will be presented in the second Young Artists in Concert series to be held on Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 8 p.m. at the Thailand Cultural Centre, Small Auditorium. The concert, entitled "Strings and Things", is part of the year-long concert series held this year by the Tamnak prathom Harp Centre to mark the Seventh Cycle Birth anniversary of HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana, Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajnagarindra. Playing for the first time as a family in the Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor will be Thaweewet Srinarong, violin, his two sisters, Uthaisri (cello) and Pintusorn (violin) with father Sutin Srinarong on the viola. Uthaisri and Pintusorn will also be playing the beautiful Glinka's Romance for harp, violin and cello in a trio with Japanese harpist, Ema Mitarai of the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre. Currently Thailand's virtuoso young violinist modst-in-demand, Thaweewet is working for his doctoral degree in Stonybrook University, and has just been appointed the very first concert master of the Asian Artists & Concerts Orchestra, founded in New York.He has played as soloist and chamber musician in major venues in Asia, Europe and the Untied States, and is a member of the Sybarite Chamber Players, which have just completed their first residency at the Aspen Music Festival. Thaweewet will also be bringing along two of his musician cronies, the young Franco-American cellist, Yves Dharamraj from Juilliard School of Music, and Thailand's own, pianist Pornphan Banternghansa from the Eastman School of Music In the upcoming concert, Thaweewet will be playing the Saint-Saens Fantasie for Harp and Violin together with another young virtuoso, harpist Jie Zhou of the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre.Shanghai-born, Jie Zhou, is winner of a string of international harp competitions, and is currently taking time off from her Meisterklasse studies at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts to gain teaching experience at the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre. With the firebrand cellist, Yves, Thaweewet will be playing Handel's Passacaglia for violin and cello guaranteed to raise the roof. Yves will then play with Pornphan, the teasing virtuoso piece "Tambourin Chinois" by Fritz Kreisler, and the three friends will play together one movement of Brahms' Piano Trio in b major. Nor will the harpists be outdone. Complementing the programme will be a harp duo piece of Carlos Salzedo's Chanson de la Nuit, plus an open duel between harp and piano of the famous jazz piece Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' . Tickets will be at 800 baht and 500 baht with all proceeds going towards the Princess' Birthday Charities Funds.Furhter information is available by calling the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre, 02 261 4777-8 or The Harp Shop, tel. 02 261 6769 Click for photo release at www.thaipr.net