1. Ananda Sukarlan's piano concert on Sunday, April 25th at the World Theatre of the British International School will be held at 7 p.m or 19.00 hrs, not at 4 p.m as announced last month through facebook. With this announcement we would like to rectify it and confirm it. The location is at Bintaro Sektor IX (Pondok Aren)2. There will be several new pieces receiving their world premieres in this concert. They are :
- some piano solo numbers from "Alicia's Second Piano Book" (due to be published next year)
- some numbers written for disabled children (commissioned by Fundacion Musica Abierta in Spain)
- the virtuosic piano work "Rapsodia Nusantara no.4" (obligatory work for "Ananda Sukarlan Award" National Piano Competition 2010)
- a song for tenor and piano "Darkness and my Lover" taken from Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers", sung by Dani Dumadi, who is also going to sing, accompanied by the composer himself, these songs :
- I sit and Look Out (Walt Whitman)
- Dalam Sakit (Sapardi Djoko Damono)
- Berkicaulah Burungku (Eka Budianta)
- Pria yang (pergi) jauh (Sapardi Djoko Damono)
- Meninggalkan kandang (Eka Budianta)
A short biography of Dani Dumadi can be read below.
3. Please reserve the tickets through Chendra by sms (preferable to calling by phone, since we have only one line for reservation and sometimes it is blocked due to the many phone calls) to 0818 891038 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . And more info at www.anandasukarlan.com .
Thank you and see you on the on Sunday the 25th at 7 p.m !
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Dani Dumadi, tenor
Dani is an Indonesian singer who just came back from Washington D.C, United States. In this city, he took voice lessons intensively with the American tenor, Issachah Savage and recently gave a recital titled “East Meets West” with soprano Jennifer Weingartner and pianist Barbara Schelstrate at the Embassy of Indonesia. He played the role of ‘Frederic’ in Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta “the Pirates of Penzance ” and ‘Strephon’ in “Iolanthe” produced in 2008 and 2009 by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
During his stay in Washington D.C. , Dani joined the Master Chorale of Washington , directed by Donald McCullough, where he performed several times with them and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Centre. He was also a member of Sonus Cura (directed by Daniel Ozment), St. Gregory Choir-and-Schola (directed by David Lang), as well as regularly served as a cantor at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Silver Spring , Maryland .