For the last 5 years composer / pianist Ananda Sukarlan and choreographer / dancer Chendra Panatan have closely collaborated in producing artistic works that have been produced & performed in England, Spain and Indonesia. Some of those works will be performed at the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta on the 24th and 25th of June as the Grand Closing of the Jakarta Anniversary Festival 2010.

They have also worked with European artists, among others in producing the first performance of the collosal Kecak Dance in Spain in 2008 with 40 Spanish dancers trained for 2 weeks by Chendra, during the Sueca Festival, Valencia. This immensely succesful performance has since then influenced Spanish composers to use elements from Kecak in their musical works, among others the National Music Award 2005 Jesus Rueda who wrote his Kecak Sonata no. 2 which has been performed by Ananda Sukarlan in many countries and recorded with NAXOS label.

In this performance which will mix 4 different artistic world (music, dance, literature and photography/lighting) Ananda & Chendra will perform choreographic works on music by David del Puerto, Santiago Lanchares and Ananda Sukarlan himself. A special bonus will be given by Ananda playing duo piano with young talented pianist Elwin Hendrijanto performing Leonard Bernstein's WestSide Story Symphonic Dances in a new 2-piano arrangement. This duo will also play Ananda's great 2-piano work "The Humiliation of Drupadi" as the grand finale. This work was the highlight of Jakarta New Year Concert last year (2009).

There will also be slides by Dian Rosita. Other participating musicians will be flutist Marini Widyastari, the 14-year-old violin prodigy Inez Raharjo as well as dancers from Jakarta Ballet under the direction of Chendra Panatan.

Jakarta Anniversary Festival
Gedung Kesenian Jakarta
Thur, Fri - 24, 25 June 2010 - 8pm

Tickets and further info: tel 021.26718621 and 021.34110621 (Muslih, 9 a.m-8 p.m) or Ananda Sukarlan Center at ananda.sukarlan@musik-sastra.com

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ANANDA SUKARLAN AWARD 2010 : July 20 - 25, 2010

Indonesia's most talented young pianists will be in this prestigious event. Now, Ananda Sukarlan Award will be added with a new category, the JUNIOR category for pianists born after August 4, 1996, so not only you will witness the virtuosos, but the young prodigies as well ! All data, conditions and infos can be found at http://asaward.blogspot.com

New publication of Ananda Sukarlan's music :

There are 2 scores available of music by Ananda Sukarlan :
1. "Alicia's First Piano Book" contains 37 pieces for piano solo and duets by Ananda Sukarlan for beginners and young pianists. Some of them written originally for his daughter Alicia, these pieces are suitable for teaching purposes as well as for performance.

2. "Ananda Sukarlan's Vocal Works" contains 25 songs for all voices, including duets from his Cantata no. 1 "Ars Amatoria"

Those 2 books can be acquired through Chendra Panatan at ycep@yahoo.com or (+62)818 891038.


NEW VIDEOS IN YOUTUBE !
We just uploaded some videos (done amateurly from the Java New Year Concerts in Magelang and Jogja) :

- Rescuing Ariadne, for flute & piano (Elizabeth Ashford, flute & Alfred Young Sugiri, piano) :
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XgXw6Dcvk

- Schumann's Psychosis, for 6 pianos (6 Indonesian best young pianists, winners of "Ananda Sukarlan Award) :
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ubhOq_uRY

- "Kasih" for baritone & piano (Joseph Kristanto, bar & the composer at the piano)
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=AqTULkD835A

Ananda's a Blogger now ! And he has a group at facebook !

Yeah, we have created a group for Ananda Sukarlan in facebook ! Join us at "Ananda Sukarlan's friends" group, and you can get our regular newsletters to be updated.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41769011619

And Ananda keeps writing his personal blog at : http://andystarblogger.blogspot.com .

NEW CHORAL WORKS

World Premiere of "Jokpiniana no.1"

On July 29th Ananda Sukarlan's work for choir, orchestra & angklung "Stanza Suara" will be premiered by its commissioner, the Bandung Institute of Technology Choir (ITB Choir) and ITB Orchestra and its director Indra Listiyanto. It takes place at Sabuga, Bandung, for the opening of their International Choir Competition & Festival.

A HYMN FOR THE OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN broadcast in 200 TV stations in Asia

On June the 27th, Ananda's new choral work "A Hymn to the Olympic Sportsmen" to celebrate the Beijing Olympic Games will be premiered by its commissioner, Jakarta Children and Youth Choir and its director Rizal Tandrio. It is based on a poem by Pindar, a Greek poet lived hundreds of years before Christ. After the premiere at the Goethe Institute, Jakarta, they will bring the piece on tour to Bandung the next day, ESPLANADE (Singapore) on the 9th of July and then the Hongkong Choir Festival on the 16th of July. On the 18th it will be performed for Phoenix TV in Hongkong, which will be broadcast throughout Asia through 200 TV channels. In those concerts they will also perform Ananda Sukarlan older choir piece, now already very much popular, "Hei! Jangan Kaupatahkan" (based on a poem by Sapardi Djoko Damono). More info : www.jcyc.indonesianchoral.net

The CDs released recently.

Ananda Sukarlan has long been a huge fan of the great Australian contemporary composer Peter Sculthorpe, and Peter has also loved Ananda's interpretations of his works and dedicated his exquisite "Little Passacaglia" especially to Ananda. Now, Ananda has recorded his piano works as well as his "From Saibai" for violin and piano and two short trios (with Ema Alexeeva, violin & David Apellaniz, cello) . The CD has been released by Verso in Christmas 2006, entitled "Peter Sculthorpe : Spirits of Place" , which includes the world premiere recordings of Little Passacaglia and Sometimes when I am dreaming. A special & curious bonus in this CD is Ananda Sukarlan playing with himself through a multi-track recording in Sculthorpe's "Four Little Pieces" for piano duet !

Ananda Sukarlan's CD with the works by Jesus Rueda (National Music Award 2004) received high acclaim from critics. The double CD "Complete String Quartets and works for strings & piano", played by Ananda Sukarlan and the Arditti Quartet, has been chosen as the best CD of the month of July 2006 by the music magazine "Scherzo" in Spain. This CD is released by Fundacion Autor.

The premiere of David del Puerto's great Symphony no. 2 "Nusantara" for piano and orchestra by Ananda Sukarlan and the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid conducted by Jose Ramon Encinar in May 2006 proved to be not only highly successful, but also a historical event. The four most important Spanish newspapers (ABC, El Pais, El Mundo & La Razon) as well as an enthralled audience hailed it a masterpiece. It was also broadcasted live by the Radio Nacional de España . The piece now has been demanded by other orchestras and festivals around the world. Venice Bienale has programmed it for the inauguration evening on the 1st of October at the Teatro La Fenice with the same players, and the event was broadcast live by RAI -3, Italy. Ananda Sukarlan and Jose Ramon Encinar have recorded it for the Stradivarius recording company, who was so enthusiastic after its premiere to release it together with an earlier orchestral piece by David del Puerto, the Violin Concerto of 1999 . This long-awaited CD has been released .
All of these CDs can be obtained through Ananda Sukarlan's management office at ycep@yahoo.com .