Joe Mathawaphan is a London-based Thai composer, currently composer-in-residence with the CoMA London Ensemble. His recent projects include a chamber orchestral work for the Riot Ensemble Side-by-Side, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, and a collaboration with Pallant House Gallery on a work inspired by their collection. He featured twice at the Thai Wind Composers Festival as a Call for Scores winner, once for the Million Wind Philharmonic in 2025 and again for the TIME SOUL Percussion Group in 2026. In the summer of 2024, he was one of eight composers selected for Britten Sinfonia’s composer scheme, OPUS 1, mentored by Raymond Yiu and Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Meanwhile, three of his works were premiered by the King’s College London Symphony Orchestra after he won their composition competition in 2023, one of which was later performed during the orchestra’s tour of southern France. In 2021, he won second prize in the BETA Quartet’s Call for Scores. Future commissions include a new work for Wigmore Hall and the Nash Ensemble Side-by-Side.

 

Joe is pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Edmund Finnis. He previously graduated from King's College London with first-class honours, where he received compositional advice from Thomas Hyde and Edward Nesbit. During that time, he also received private tuition from Thai composers including Narongrit Dhamabutra and Kitti Kuremanee.