1. Ananda's music for guitar solo premiered --and toured in Asia
2. CDs of Amir Pasaribu reedited
3. Musical instruments and other donations welcome for our foundation


1. The prominent Spanish guitarist Miguel Trapaga has commissioned Ananda Sukarlan for a new piece for guitar solo to be toured by him in many countries in Asia, which goes as far to Japan and New Zealand this year. Ananda has responded with his first piece for guitar solo, "The 5 Lovers of Drupadi" which will be the second of his "Drupadi" trilogy (no. 1, "The Birth of Drupadi" is for a 5-octave marimba, and no.3 is "The Humiliation of Drupadi" for 2 pianos).

This guitar solo piece will receive its world premiere in Segovia, Spain on the 10th of March 2010 at 20.30 p.m. It will take place at Teatro Juan Bravo, in a concert patronized by the Philharmonic Society of Segovia. Miguel Trapaga's Asian & New Zealand tour will start in June this year.

"The 5 Lovers of Drupadi" has a special place in the guitar repertoire, since it is using a scordatura technique (retuning 3 strings of the guitar) and it is unique in its use of Javanese pentatonic scale which is not known before in the guitar repertoire. Fingerings and other details will be completed after the World Premiere next March and the score will be available at the guitarist's website at www.migueltrapaga.com, but if you would like to obtain it now please send an email to us, Chendra Panatan at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we'll send it by email to you.

2. Ananda Sukarlan's recording of the piano music by the recently deceased great Indonesian composer Amir Pasaribu (1915-2010) has been reedited, and now is available again through us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Ananda has written a short obituary a few days after his death on the 10th of February this year at his blog : http://andystarblogger.blogspot.com

3. We welcome all donations to our Indonesian Classical Music Foundation (Yayasan Musik Sastra Indonesia), so if you have a musical instrument, books and scores of classical music lying around and you are thinking to throw away, please remember us! Your donation will mean a lot to many, many people who really need them. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and visit our website http://www.musik-sastra.com .