Talented teens to perform chamber music concert

JAKARTA (JP): Four teenagers are to take center stage during a concert by the Capella Amadeus String Chamber Orchestra on the evening of Sept. 28 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jl. Gatot Subroto.

Featuring prominently will be 16-year old Natalia Peggy Seputra, who has already featured as soloist in previous concerts and is now the top student of the school of music run by Yayasan Amadeus. In next week's show, she will be joined by three other talented youngsters from the school in a concerto for four violins by one of the baroque period's foremost composers, Antonio Vivaldi.

The other three are Rebecca Wirakesuma, 14, Karina Soeryodibroto, 16, and David Reiss, 16.

All four have greatly benefited from the violin workshops conducted last March by noted German violin teacher, Christiane Hutcap. Peggy and Karina have been studying from the outset with Grace Sudargo, director of the Yayasan Amadeus school of music.

Rebecca started studying violin with her mother, Therese Wirakesuma, who is head of the music department of Pelita Harapan secondary school in Karawaci, just west of Jakarta. Therese, who hails from the U.S., has played with Capella Amadeus before, and is coming to the forefront once again with this concert.

David Reiss, apart from featuring in the Vivaldi concerto, will also be performing the Concerto for Violin and Strings in A- Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

David, of Australian-Filipino parentage, started his violin studies in Abu Dhabi under a Polish teacher. He stopped his studies for about a year and then resumed them in Indonesia where his father had meanwhile been stationed. He has been working with Grace Sudargo for some three years. This will be his debut as a soloist with an orchestra.

The Capella Amadeus String Chamber Orchestra was founded by Grace Sudargo in 1993, and since then has performed biennially besides appearing at many special events. Beginning with ten string players in 1993, it now has 15 members, comprising mostly the school's teachers and brightest students.

For further information and tickets, call Dewi or Marianne at Yayasan Amadeus on (021) 7662853.