Changton Kunjara

Changton Kunjara was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1976. He has begun to play guitar before he’s got Bachelor degree in Economic from Chulalongkorn University and Master degree in Cultural Studies from Mahidol University. In his early musical life, he has mastered all Thai classical instruments and has won many prizes in Thailand. Few years later after he started to play guitar, he got interest in jazz music. In 1999, He received a "world scholarship" from Berklee College of Music and came to the U.S. in 2000. At Berklee, He was focusing on performing and writing in jazz music. Changton studied with many famous artists such as Ted Pease, Bret Willmott, Jim Kelly, Jon Damian, David Feuzynski. Other than jazz, latin music is also the most favorite style that he always loves to plays . He studied with many latin jazz artists such as Victor Mendoza, Oscar Stagnaro, Mark Walker. He led the Band “Contigo” performing Latin jazz and Salsa music in Boston area. Changton is now a Head of Jazz Studies Department of Conservatory of Music Rangsit University (http://www.rsu.ac.th/music/) ,teaching jazz guitar, jazz ensemble, jazz theory and improvisation. He also had the privilege of playing with Rangsit University Jazz Faculty Ensemble led by Dr. Denny Euprasert (also known as “Denny and Friends”) and done many jazz concerts such as Hua Hin Jazz Festival, MAI Brazillian Joy Concert, Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan, Thailand Jazz Conference, Samui Jazz Festival and recently Jud Pra Kai Concert 33 “The Art of Jazz Guitar ”. He also work on his own band “Changton Trio” which is mostly his own original music. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)