Winners' guitar concert draws large audience
Winners' guitar concert draws large audience
JAKARTA (JP): It was a classical guitar winners' concert that
ensured a packed-hall audience of more than 350 people in South
Jakarta.
The evening looked bright when Wildan Kamil Arifin appeared on
stage clutching his amplified classical guitar. Soon after, he
belted out five classical pieces including Asturias composed by
Issac Albeniz and Vals No. 3 by A. Barrios Mangore.
An oversized picture of him picking up the guitar was
projected on a white screen in the background.
As was expected from a winner, Wildan played his instrument
with utmost confidence as did the four other players that
evening, including Daniel Tjahja, Rahmat Raharjo, Ridwan
Budihutama Tjiptahardja and Jubing Kristianto.
Apart from Jubing, who played some popular Indonesian tunes in
classical guitar style like Naik Delman (riding a horse-drawn
carriage) composed by Pak Kasur and a traditional Minang song
Kampuang nan Jauh Dimato (home away from the village), all the
rest played the works of great guitar composers like H. Villa-
Lobos, F. Tarrega, J. Rodrigo and J. Malatz.
Wildan, the youngest player in the group, was winner of
Indonesia's Yamaha Guitar Festival in 1999, when he was 16 years
old, and in 2000. The concert was held at the Yamaha building on
Jl Gatot Subroto on Saturday Aug. 25.
Wildan and Rahmat are taking part in an ongoing Spanish Guitar
Awards festival organized by the Spanish embassy in cooperation
with the Ministry of National Education and Philharmonic Society.
Finalists of this festival will compete for top places on Oct. 3
to 5 at Gran Melia Hotel in Jakarta.
Rahmat, a guitar instructor at both the Yogyakarta-based
Institute of Arts and the Indonesian Music Foundation, was the
guitar festival wonder boy, having won top prize three times and
runner-up four times.
The others have won at least one guitar festival in recent
years. Of the five players, only Rahmat and Ridwan are fulltime
guitarists. Wildan is a university student, Daniel a businessman
and Jubing a journalist.
The concert was the second one held by the Music Foundation of
Indonesia.
John R. Legoh, a senior guitar instructor at the foundation
said that it planned to hold a regular classical guitar winners'
concert. (hbk)