Dolhathai Intawong

Dolhathai Kloy Intawong, originally from Thailand, is a doctoral candidate in Choral Conducting at the University of Northern Colorado. She won the Southwest American Choral Director Association Graduate Conducting Competition 2020 and was selected as the conducting fellow at National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference 2022. She has been active as a choral director and educator since 2012; previously directed the award-winning Rangsit University Concert Singers in Thailand and served as a teaching assistant at the University of Northern Colorado. She is currently the artistic director of Denver's Sine Nomine Chorus and choral faculty at Front Range Community College in Colorado.

Dolhathai has cultivated her passion for choral music since joining the choir as a high school exchange student in Florida. She received a BA in vocal performance from Mahidol University, Thailand, and her master’s degree in choral conducting from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. She is a doctoral choral conducting candidate at the University of Northern Colorado under the guidance of Dr. Jill Burgett and Dr. Galen Darrough. Dolhathai also receives the National Research Council of Thailand’s research funds to build choral music from the Thai classical singing tradition for school choirs in Thailand. At the same time, her dissertation also focuses on contributing resources of Thai choral music to global communities. Drawing from and experiencing diversity in her musical journey, Dolhathai seeks ways for choral music not only to represent its tradition, but also to serve as a cultural bridge to promote multiculturalism to a contemporary audience.