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4 unusual facts about Ananda Sukarlan


Ananda Sukarlan

Projects in 2010 include his third opera, "PRO PATRIA" (Losing and Winning) based on a novel "Kalah dan Menang" by celebrated Indonesian author Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana commissioned by Bimasena, and a modern ballet based on the legend "Joko Tarub", a collaboration with Chendra Panatan.

No. 2 LIBERTAS (for baritone soloist & mixed choir, accompanied by 8 instrumentalists) based on poems by Chairil Anwar, Ilham Malayu, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Walt Whitman, Luis Cernuda, WS Rendra, Hasan Aspahani 27'

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His works have been performed by soloists the likes of Ernest Rombout, Ananda Sukarlan, Miquel Bernat, Ángel Luis Castaño, Manuel Guillén, Evelyn Glennie and Sarah Leonard, and conducted by the likes of Ed Spanjaard, Sakari Oramo, Diego Masson, Luca Pfaff, José Ramón Encinar, Josep Pons, Pedro Halffter, Fabián Panisello, Tapio Tuomela, Pablo González Bernardo, Pablo Heras, Dmitri Loos, etc.

Sapardi Djoko Damono

Sapardi's poems have also formed the inspiration behind several musical compositions, most notably by Indonesia’s international-acclaimed pianist Ananda Sukarlan.



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