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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. 

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Selections & Commissions

24th January 2025

The Tale of Two Continents (world premiere) - 100 years Sitor Situmorang by Orkest de Ereprijs

23th September 2023 

Resital “Bunyi Puan Nusantara” 2023 - Perempuan Komponis

20th - 25th December 2022

IntAct Festival - International Composition Institute of Thailand 2022 - Thailand Music and Arts Organization and TACETI(i) Ensemble 

10th July & 28th August 2022

Soundwalk in Schokland - Black Pencil Ensemble

19th - 25th February 2022 

28th Young Composer's Meeting 2022 - Orkest de Ereprijs

26th June 2021 

Either/Or's Spring Festival: Streamworks Volume II

3th - 6th November 2019

Pekan Komponis Indonesia 2019 - Jakarta Arts Council 

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