What About Us

A crazy bunch of people who does crazy things (in the perspective of the world). Truth is... we study, not because we want to change the world. But because we want to change ourselves, so we shall be a role model for the rest of the world & help our community. Speak less, do more... We learn to develop a good moral, empathy and skills. Our aim is to be of a good influence to the world through the performing arts (music, dance and drama) that we create. We share it to others just because we care.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Cultural Cross Current Workshop

Institut Musik Daya Indonesia proudly presents,


Deviana Trio


Cultural Cross Current Workshop


Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah on Piano and Vocal
Karoline Hoefler on Double Bass
Beatrice Graf on Drums

The ensemble workshop will be held on

Tuesday, March 6th 2012
02:00 pm - 05:00 pm
at Terrace of Institut Musik Daya Indonesia
Jl. Ampera Raya 37a, Jakarta Selatan

Admission Fees :
General Public 150,000 IDR
Student (active student required) 100,000 IDR

Since we only have limited seats, please reserve and confirm your attendance to Institut Musik Daya Indonesia office at 021-97603985 (09:00 am - 05.00 pm)




Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah - Piano and Vocal



Considered as one of the best talents the world currently possesses, Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah has spent a great deal of her life abroad (36 years), particularly in Germany and Switzerland, to embark on the music world as an artist with several record albums, pianist, vocalist, arranger, composer, conductor, professor and music educator. Tjut Nyak Deviana studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg Germany, earns a Bachelor Degree in Classical Piano Performance & Composition, Master Degree in Jazz Vocal and Doctorate Degree in Music Education. Together with the faculty of Jazz & Rockschule Freiburg - Germany, she designed a curriculum for modern Music based on classical discipline and modern vocal study for Music Academy Basel (Jazz Department), validated by German and Swiss Governments and SMPV (Association of Swiss Music Educators).

Between 1990 – 1995 Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah was the Artistic Director and Head of Examination Board for Master Degree of Jazz & Rockschule Freiburg Germany. At the same time active as Professor for Piano, Vocals, Ear Training, Improvisation, Ensemble, Choir and member of Master Degree Examination Board at the Music Academy Basel Switzerland. She was also lending her multi-range skills by being a vocal coach, musical actress, music composer and music director at the Basel National Theatre Swiss, from 1990 to 1998.

Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah returned to Indonesia in early 2000 and founded Institut Musik Daya Indonesia in 2001.

She received the prestigious National Citra Kartini Award in 2005 from Indonesian Minister of Women Empowerment for her contribution in Music Education.

Currently Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah is the Principal of Institut Musik Daya Indonesia, member of National Music Consortium, member of Indonesian Association of Performing Arts Educators & Practitioners (PRASASTI Gelar Seni) and Chair of National Certification Institute for Music Competencies (LSK Musik) in cooperation with Indonesian Ministry of Education.  


Karoline Hoefler - Double Bass

Born 1962 in Tübingen (Germany). 1987-1992 - Studied at the music conservatory Stuttgart (Faculty of Jazz/Thomas Stabenow) and graduated with a Masters degree. 1987 – 2nd price winner at the “Youth Jazzes“ contest (duo with Dieter Fischer – guitar). 1992-1998 - leader of the group Charly Haigl’s Festival Band – 2nd price winner at the “Concours International des Orchesteres“ in Vienne/France and leader of the group “Standard Affairs“. 1995 – recipient of the prestigious Jazz Price of Baden-Württemberg. 1996 – awarded a price at the IBK (trio with Ull Möck – piano and Hans Fickelscher – drums).

Karoline works as a freelance bass player for a wide variety of well known jazz-bands (ranging from small combos to Big Bands) at live events and is also a highly sought after studio musician for jazz album recordings (with an extensive range of styles, incredible feeling and exquisite tone).

She still tours extensively throughout the World with performances at numerous major International Jazz and Art Festivals and lends her talents to a wide variety of film, television and theater projects. In addition to her impressive performance portfolio, Karoline still finds time to teach double bass.
Most notable performances and projects: Modern Dance & Jazz Trio, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Stötter’s Nevertheless (Claus Stötter), Jochen Feucht Trio, Marc Liebeskind Quartett (West-Africa Tour and CD), Timeless Art Orchestra (CD), Bobby Burgess Bigband (CD), Walter Lang Quintett (CD), Four Roses (CH, CD), Orchestra project with Butch Morris (Dirigat 107), Film music with Fred Frith (Rivers & Tides), Theatermusic e.g. Theater Rampe in Stuttgart, duo performance with Riccardo Del Fra, as well as several stays in Jakarta/Indonesia for concert tours and teaching engagements at Institut Musik Daya Indonesia.

Notable collaborations: Hans Koller, Bernd Konrad, Gabriele Hasler, Wolfgang Haffner, Irene Schweizer, Don Menza, Bobby Shew, Adrian Mears, Carla Cook, Allan
Praskin, Andi Scherrer, Denis Badeault, François Laizeaux, Deviana Daudsjah, Indra Lesmana, Lauren Newton, Fred Frith, Peter Madson and many more.


Beatrice Graf - Drums

Béatrice is an accomplished Swiss artist and highly regarded drummer (very versatile in a wide range of musical styles and percussive configurations) and also a truly gifted composer.
Since 1996, she has been developing her own projects, often involving atypical instrumentation. An early success was her 1997 Pro Helvetia composition, commissioned by Beat & Lip.

Solo to sextet, improvisation to composition, swing to hardcore, acoustic to electronic, she makes fun of any creative limitations, thus freeing herself from stylistic conventions or standard orchestration – always welcoming challenges.
Béatrice Graf has developed her own sound and identity over the years in a wide variety of exciting music projects and amazing creative collaborations with jazz, rock, world, and electronic musicians as well as theatrical and multimedia inclined contemporary artists.

Among the artists she has worked with are Vinz Vonlanthen, Dave Douglas, Jacques Siron, James Carter, Neba Solo (Mali), Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Christian Weber, Bruno Amstad, Bänz Oester, MC J.P. Kalongi, Jacques Demierre, Ian Gordon Lennox, Nicolas Sordet, Claude Jordan, James Zollar, Amampondo (Cape Town 1998), Philippe Schaufelberger, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jon Saas, Cheo Allen Solder Jeffery, Ratrabra "Homage to Ornette Coleman" (Co Streiff, Hilaria Kramer), Duo & Rudi van der Merwe (Dance), Tranhumance (Blog), B. Blessing, Catherine Gaillard, Laurent Bortolotti, Costel & Dorel Surbeck (World champions of Tap Dancing), Luzia Hürzeler and the TJNND Trio with Deviana Daudsjah and Karoline Höfler.
Béatrice Graf has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, and Africa, in particular with Four Roses; the Peter Schärli Special Sextet (featuring Glenn Ferris); and B. G. Windows (featuring Corin Curschellas & Sylvie Courvoisier).
 







 

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Cultural Cross Current

Institut Musik Daya Indonesia presents,

Cultural Cross Current between Indonesia, Germany, and Switzerland. A Reunion Concert - 15 Years in The Making.
  "DEVIANA TRIO (DEVIANA UND FREUNDE)"
Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah on Vocal and Piano
Karoline Hoefler on Double Bass
Beatrice Graf on Drums

Sunday, March 4th 2012
18:30 - 19:15 WIB
Semeru Garuda Indonesia Hall
Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival
PRJ Kemayoran

Wednesday, March 7th 2012
20:00 - 21:30 WIB
at Erasmus Huis, Kuningan, Jakarta
 
*the admission is free but we gladly accept donations for Indonesia Performing Arts Education.

For invitations and more information please contact:
Institut Musik Daya Indonesia
on 021-97603985
or email to imdi@imdi-edu.org
"CULTURAL CROSS CURRENT”
 

Cultural Cross Current is a cross cultural Jazz music performance, a form of an appreciation of music by Deviana Trio. Deviana Trio formerly known as Deviana Daudsjah Trio in Switzerland and Germany between 1990 – 1993, was one of the best-known outstanding Female Jazz Trio in European Jazz scene. 


The Trio, Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah (Indonesia) on Piano & Vocal, Karoline Hoefler (Germany) on Double Bass and Béatrice Graf (Switzerland) on Drums performed extensively in France, Germany and Switzerland at various events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Chorus Jazz Cafe event Lausanne, Sud des Alpes  Geneva and Jazz Club Stuttgart. Their first C.D. Album “Deviana Daudsjah For You” featuring Axel Fischbacher was regarded as the best Modern Jazz Album of 1993 in Music review of Swiss Music Szene Magazine.

Deviana Trio performance at Erasmus Huis on March 7th 2012 will be their reunion concert.
 Deviana Trio (photo from 1992)
 
Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah - Piano
 
Considered as one of the best talents the world currently possesses, Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah has spent a great deal of her life abroad (36 years), particularly in Germany and Switzerland, to embark on the music world as an artist with several record albums, pianist, vocalist, arranger, composer, conductor, professor and music educator. Tjut Nyak Deviana studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg Germany, earns a Bachelor Degree in Classical Piano Performance & Composition, Master Degree in Jazz Vocal and Doctorate Degree in Music Education. Together with the faculty of Jazz & Rockschule Freiburg - Germany, she designed a curriculum for modern Music based on classical discipline and modern vocal study for Music Academy Basel (Jazz Department), validated by German and Swiss Governments and SMPV (Association of Swiss Music Educators).

Between 1990 – 1995 Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah was the Artistic Director and Head of Examination Board for Master Degree of Jazz & Rockschule Freiburg Germany. At the same time active as Professor for Piano, Vocals, Ear Training, Improvisation, Ensemble, Choir and member of Master Degree Examination Board at the Music Academy Basel Switzerland. She was also lending her multi-range skills by being a vocal coach, musical actress, music composer and music director at the Basel National Theatre Swiss, from 1990 to 1998.

Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah returned to Indonesia in early 2000 and founded Institut Musik Daya Indonesia in 2001.

She received the prestigious National Citra Kartini Award in 2005 from Indonesian Minister of Women Empowerment for her contribution in Music Education.

Currently Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah is the Principal of Institut Musik Daya Indonesia, member of National Music Consortium, member of Indonesian Association of Performing Arts Educators & Practitioners (PRASASTI Gelar Seni) and Chair of National Certification Institute for Music Competencies (LSK Musik) in cooperation with Indonesian Ministry of Education.  




Karoline Hoefler - Double Bass


Born 1962 in Tübingen (Germany). 1987-1992 - Studied at the music conservatory Stuttgart (Faculty of Jazz/Thomas Stabenow) and graduated with a Masters degree. 1987 – 2nd price winner at the “Youth Jazzes“ contest (duo with Dieter Fischer – guitar). 1992-1998 - leader of the group Charly Haigl’s Festival Band – 2nd price winner at the “Concours International des Orchesteres“ in Vienne/France and leader of the group “Standard Affairs“. 1995 – recipient of the prestigious Jazz Price of Baden-Württemberg. 1996 – awarded a price at the IBK (trio with Ull Möck – piano and Hans Fickelscher – drums).

Karoline works as a freelance bass player for a wide variety of well known jazz-bands (ranging from small combos to Big Bands) at live events and is also a highly sought after studio musician for jazz album recordings (with an extensive range of styles, incredible feeling and exquisite tone).

She still tours extensively throughout the World with performances at numerous major International Jazz and Art Festivals and lends her talents to a wide variety of film, television and theater projects. In addition to her impressive performance portfolio, Karoline still finds time to teach double bass.
Most notable performances and projects: Modern Dance & Jazz Trio, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Stötter’s Nevertheless (Claus Stötter), Jochen Feucht Trio, Marc Liebeskind Quartett (West-Africa Tour and CD), Timeless Art Orchestra (CD), Bobby Burgess Bigband (CD), Walter Lang Quintett (CD), Four Roses (CH, CD), Orchestra project with Butch Morris (Dirigat 107), Film music with Fred Frith (Rivers & Tides), Theatermusic e.g. Theater Rampe in Stuttgart, duo performance with Riccardo Del Fra, as well as several stays in Jakarta/Indonesia for concert tours and teaching engagements at Institut Musik Daya Indonesia.

Notable collaborations: Hans Koller, Bernd Konrad, Gabriele Hasler, Wolfgang Haffner, Irene Schweizer, Don Menza, Bobby Shew, Adrian Mears, Carla Cook, Allan
Praskin, Andi Scherrer, Denis Badeault, François Laizeaux, Deviana Daudsjah, Indra Lesmana, Lauren Newton, Fred Frith, Peter Madson and many more.

BÉATRICE GRAF - Artist & Drummer


Béatrice is an accomplished Swiss artist and highly regarded drummer (very versatile in a wide range of musical styles and percussive configurations) and also a truly gifted composer.
Since 1996, she has been developing her own projects, often involving atypical instrumentation. An early success was her 1997 Pro Helvetia composition, commissioned by Beat & Lip.

Solo to sextet, improvisation to composition, swing to hardcore, acoustic to electronic, she makes fun of any creative limitations, thus freeing herself from stylistic conventions or standard orchestration – always welcoming challenges.
Béatrice Graf has developed her own sound and identity over the years in a wide variety of exciting music projects and amazing creative collaborations with jazz, rock, world, and electronic musicians as well as theatrical and multimedia inclined contemporary artists.

Among the artists she has worked with are Vinz Vonlanthen, Dave Douglas, Jacques Siron, James Carter, Neba Solo (Mali), Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Christian Weber, Bruno Amstad, Bänz Oester, MC J.P. Kalongi, Jacques Demierre, Ian Gordon Lennox, Nicolas Sordet, Claude Jordan, James Zollar, Amampondo (Cape Town 1998), Philippe Schaufelberger, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jon Saas, Cheo Allen Solder Jeffery, Ratrabra "Homage to Ornette Coleman" (Co Streiff, Hilaria Kramer), Duo & Rudi van der Merwe (Dance), Tranhumance (Blog), B. Blessing, Catherine Gaillard, Laurent Bortolotti, Costel & Dorel Surbeck (World champions of Tap Dancing), Luzia Hürzeler and the TJNND Trio with Deviana Daudsjah and Karoline Höfler.
Béatrice Graf has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, and Africa, in particular with Four Roses; the Peter Schärli Special Sextet (featuring Glenn Ferris); and B. G. Windows (featuring Corin Curschellas & Sylvie Courvoisier).

Guest Star : Thursday, March 8th 2012

Deviana Trio 



Our upcoming DIFAA Performances & Jam Sessions at Institut Musik Daya Indonesia will be presenting "Deviana Trio" on March 8th, 2012 at 7.30 pm. Open for public.


"CULTURAL CROSS CURRENT”

Cultural Cross Current is a cross cultural Jazz music performance, a form of an appreciation of music by Deviana Trio. Deviana Trio formerly known as Deviana Daudsjah Trio in Switzerland and Germany between 1990 – 1993, was one of the best-known outstanding Female Jazz Trio in European Jazz scene. 



Know Your Guest Star!
 

The Trio, Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah (Indonesia) on Piano & Vocal, Karoline Hoefler (Germany) on Double Bass and Béatrice Graf (Switzerland) on Drums performed extensively in France, Germany and Switzerland at various events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Chorus Jazz Cafe event Lausanne, Sud des Alpes  Geneva and Jazz Club Stuttgart. Their first C.D. Album “Deviana Daudsjah For You” featuring Axel Fischbacher was regarded as the best Modern Jazz Album of 1993 in Music review of Swiss Music Szene Magazine.

We are warmly welcoming you to come to our jam session. Bring your friends, family, and also your instrument to jam with us.

IMDI Waroeng serves International and Menadonese cuisine. Jl. Ampera Raya No. 37A Jakarta Selatan.