BIOGRAPHY

OF

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI

                                        BORN ON THURSDAY 14 MAY 1953, IN PHNOM PENH, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

                                        PRINCE  NORODOM SIHAMONI IS THE SON OF HIS MAJESTY NORODOM

                                        SIHANOUK, KING OF CAMBODIA AND OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN NORODOM

                                        MONINEATH SIHANOUK OF CAMBODIA.

1959-1962            :       PRIMARY SCHOOLING AT THE NORODOM SCHOOL AND THEN AT THE

                                        DESCARTES HIGH SCHOOL IN PHNOM PENH (CAMBODIA).

1962-1967            :       PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLING AT  PRAGUE'S HIGH SCHOOL

                                        (CZECHOSLOVAKIA).

1967-1971            :       DANCE, MUSIC AND THEATRE COURSES AT THE NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF

                                        PRAGUE.

1970                       :       HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATE –PRAGUE (WITH "VERY GOOD"  MARKS).

1971                       :       FIRST PRICE COURSE OF CLASSICAL DANCE OF THE   NATIONAL  CONSERVATORY OF

                                        PRAGUE.

1971-1975            :       HIGHER DANCE, MUSIC AND THEATRE COURSES, ACADEMY OF MUSICAL ART OF

                                        PRAGUE.

1975                       :       GRADUATED FROM THE ACADEMY OF MUSICAL ART OF PRAGUE.

1975                       :       AUTHOR OF A THESIS ON THE CONCEPTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF ARTISTIC SCHOOLS IN CAMBODIA.

1975 – 1976         :       HIGHER STUDIES OF CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THE D.P.R. OF KOREA.

SINCE 1981         :       PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL DANCE AND ARTISTIC PEDAGOGY AT THE MARIUS PETIPA CONSERVATORY, THE GABRIEL FAURE

                                        CONSERVATORY AND THE W.A. MOZART CONSERVATORY OF THE CITY OF PARIS.

SINCE 1984         :       PRESIDENT OF THE KHMER DANCE ASSOCIATION IN FRANCE AND DIRECTOR GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE BALLET

                                        GROUP “DEVA”.

SINCE 1990         :       DIRECTOR GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE KHMER  CINEMATOGRAPHIC SOCIETY "KHEMARA PICTURES".

1992                       :       CHOSEN UNANIMOUSLY BY THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME  NATIONAL UNCIL OF CAMBODIA TO BE PERMANENT

                                        REPRESENTATIVE OF  CAMBODIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

30 AUGUST 1993               :       APPOINTED AMBASSADOR OF THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA TO UNESCO.

1ST FEBRUARY 1994       :       ELEVATED BY H.M. THE KING TO THE RANK OF SDECH KROM KHUN (GREAT PRINCE).

LANGUAGES                       :       KHMER, FLUENT IN FRENCH AND CZECH, GOOD ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN.

DECORATIONS                 :       GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF MONISARAPHON (CAMBODIA) .

        GRAND OFFICER OF THE LEGION D’HONNEUR  (FRANCE).

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