Ananda Sukarlan cements position in Spanish classical music

The primary leg of the Rapsodia Nusantara live performance tour in Makassar, South Sulawesi, had simply come to an finish early final month when pianist and composer Ananda Sukarlan obtained a telephone name with a request he couldn’t decline.

He needed to return to his second dwelling in Spain to chair a jury panel for the Reina Sofia Award for Music Composition, the most important classical music award in Europe named after the Queen Mom Sofia.

Ananda mentioned he wouldn’t thoughts suspending a tour overlaying Surabaya in East Java, Bali and Jakarta to honor the Queen Mom Sofia, who had supported his music and Spanish classical music basically.

“Her Majesty got here to my live shows earlier than she abdicated. We had some discussions and he or she had nice new concepts of how music might serve the disabled and in addition as a type of diplomacy and communication,” the maestro, who lives with Asperger syndrome, instructed The Jakarta Put up on Tuesday through textual content messages from Spain.

The nice and cozy relationship was not the one purpose for his appointment because the presiding jury member.

Ananda is also referred to as a significant affect in Spanish up to date classical music, directing its path right into a fusion of two musical cultures.

The 2001-2005 work of Jesus Rueda, probably the most distinguished dwelling Spanish composer for the piano, as an illustration, confirmed some Indonesian components, equivalent to his “Sonata No. 2 Ketjak”.

One other composition with a heavy Indonesian sound may be present in David del Puerto’s “Symphony No. 2 Nusantara & Violin Concerto” launched in 2017.

The Reina Sofia Awards’ jury includes Rueda, Ananda’s good friend of 20 years, Spanish composer Juan Cruz-Guevara, Fabian Panisello from Argentina and world-renowned African music ethnomusicologist Polo Vallejo.

Saying the judging outcomes on Sunday, their selection went to Valencia-born Carlos Fontcuberta, 43, who will obtain the Queen Sofia Prize of 35,000 euro (US$39,000).

In line with Spanish information outlet La Vanguardia, the award was sponsored by the Ferrer-Salat Basis, an organization engaged in prescription drugs and philanthropy.

Queen Mom Sofia, whose husband King Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014, will current the prize within the coming months after winners in different fields of artwork are chosen.

The award is held yearly to develop skills in literature, visible arts, movie and classical music.

Throughout judging for the classical music class, which began on Feb. 28, Ananda mentioned the jury had chosen the perfect 4 works and unanimously discovered that Fontcuberta’s composition titled “Trencadis” has a robust id and recent music construction.

“I admired the originality of the music construction, which works effectively; [it’s] not nearly being new and sounding completely different. The opposite members of the jury mentioned, ‘Nicely, clearly, he might apply the trencadis construction brilliantly’. And I used to be so embarrassed as a result of I didn’t know what that phrase meant at the moment.”

Trencadis is a Catalan phrase, the language utilized in northeastern Spain, for damaged tile mosaics — a visible artwork approach utilized by modernist architect Antoni Gaudi.

Ananda’s unfamiliarity with Catalan was not his solely awkward second as he additionally grew to become the receiving finish of jokes amongst jury members concerning a press release made by an Indonesian Baby Safety Fee (KPAI) commissioner who claimed that girls might get pregnant from swimming in the identical pool as males.

“It had gone viral worldwide and would have been a heavy burden for me ought to I’ve picked the incorrect winner,” he quipped.

The Rapsodia Nusantara tour will characteristic Ananda and 17-year-old Michael Anthony, a blind pianist with autism, who was found on the Ananda Sukarlan Award piano competitors a couple of years in the past. In Makassar, South Sulawesi they shared the stage with the province’s 17-year-old musical prodigy, Vivienne Thamrin.

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