sábado, 14 de noviembre de 2009

The power of your lips

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The Jakarta New Year Concert (JNYC) is gonna be in about 45 days from now. Preparations are going well, tickets are selling, and the managem...
domingo, 1 de noviembre de 2009

Alicia's First Piano Book

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Really ? I haven't post the preface to Alicia's First Piano Book here? Ooops, sorry. Here it is, exactly written for the foreword to...
domingo, 25 de octubre de 2009

The ghosts of the Young Dead Soldiers

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Hey, it's Narcissism time!. But I can't help it, I am a composer. We are creatures of continuous self-doubt so we need, once in a wh...
lunes, 19 de octubre de 2009

Choral (too much) Fantasy ?

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I have always admired the musical artistry of Aning Katamsi, as so have I always admired the poems of the recently departed WS Rendra. So wh...
miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2009

Are you commissioning the right composer ?

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This is certainly the most important question one should consider when one wants to commission a certain composer for a piece. I have been c...
sábado, 10 de octubre de 2009

How Indonesian am I?

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The majority of foreign (read : non-Indonesian) public like to ask me whether my music is “Indonesian music”. I guess nobody would’ve dared ...
sábado, 3 de octubre de 2009

Neither English, nor a horn

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You might think that my favorite instrument is the piano, but that's not completely true. I love it, of course, but it's always a dr...
lunes, 21 de septiembre de 2009

Buzzing Rueda, buzzing Rueda, you'll come a-buzzing Rueda with me

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Still warm, my newest CD released by NAXOS with (almost all) piano works of Jesus Rueda is creating a buzz. Honestly, perhaps this IS the CD...