IRENE TANUWIDJAJA
Composer
About
Irene Tanuwidjaja (b.1998) is an Indonesian composer currently pursuing master's of music degree in Music Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Michael Beil. She is awarded DAAD scholarship in 2023. Prior to this, she has completed her bachelor’s degree at UPH Conservatory of Music, Indonesia with Antonius Priyanto and Renardi Effendi. Irene's music explores the concept of gestural motions, and musicality of sounds from her surroundings in day-to-day life. Irene is also a co-artistic director of RadarSuara, a composer collective where she contributes her research and work based on Indonesian traditional music and local cultures.
Her music have been performed at numerious festivals and ensembles such as Pekan Komponis Indonesia 2019 held by Jakarta Arts Council, virtual concert Either/Or Spring's Festival: Streamworks Volume II held by Either/Or ensemble, Young Composers Meeting 2022 organized by orkest de ereprijs, Soundwalk Schokland organized by Museum Schokland and Ensemble Black Pencil, IntAct Festival organized by Thailand Music and Arts Organization and Tacet(i) Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, ZKM and among others.
