Saran received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music before continuing further studies at the Royal College of Music in London where he was a Chevening Scholar in the Advanced Postgraduate Course in Opera Studies. He was also a recipient of the 'Young Thai Musicians Scholarship Fund' awarded by HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana. He sang the roles of Papageno, Donner and Gugliemo with the Bangkok Opera, Plutone with Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Fiorello and Baron Duphol with the Singapore Lyric Opera. Additionally, Saran sang the lead role in a staged production of Bach's Der Streit Zwischen Phoebus und Pan with the New York Baroque Soloists and made his European debut in Pénélope (Fauré) and Susannah (Floyd) at Wexford Festival Opera in 2005. In 2007, he founded an opera/performing arts company, NUNi Productions, with an aim to create international standard performances in Thailand and to also provide professional performing platforms for young Thai artists. With NUNi Productions, Saran sang the roles of Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Gugliemo (Così fan tutte), Enrico (Il campanello, MacHeath (Threepenny Opera), Aeneas (Dido & Aeneas) and Le mari (Les mamelles des Tirésias (co-production with La fête). Recently, he was invited to sing the lead in the World Premiere of The Lunch Box with IHOS Opera at the Ten Days On The Island Festival in Tasmania and sang the role of Achilla in Giulio Cesare in Zezere Music Festival. Also highly demanded as a concert singer, Saran has appeared frequently in concerts including Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Paukenmesse and Tippett's Child of Our Time with the Bangkok Opera, Manoa in Samson with Bangkok Music Society, Chapentier's Te Deum and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Louveciennes Chamber Choir. Moreover, he was the baritone soloist in the performances of Carmina Burana with Shrewsbury International Choir and Chulalongkorn University. Currently, he is the lecturer of voice at the Faculty of Music at Silpakorn University while also pursuing a Master of Art Degree in Sanskrit Studies at the same institution. Future projects include Escamillo (Carmen) in Ho Chi Minh, Papageno (Magic Flute) for the Mozart at Angkor project and commencing the PhD course in Sanskrit at Cambridge University.
Most agreed the outstanding Asian contribution was a vivid performance by the Thai baritone Saran Suebsantiwongse, an intelligent, expressive and flexible singer
With an incredibly rich voice and sharp cominc timing, Saran Suebsantiwongse, in the role of Papageno, stole every scene he was in