Luluk Purwanto or Purwanto (born 25 June 1959) is an Indonesian jazz violinist who extends the violin's sound with her voice. She has recorded since the 1980s. She has lived in the Netherlands and in Germany.

Life

Purwanto was born in the Indonesian city of

Surakarta Surakarta ( jv, ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ), known colloquially as Solo ( jv, ꦱꦭ; ), is a city in Central Java, Indonesia. The 44 km2 (16.2 sq mi) city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoh ...

in 1959. Her parents were Aysha Gani and Julian Purwanto who were both musicians. She took lessons in classical violin. She has studied at the Arts Institute in Yogyakarta in Java and thanks to a scholarship from the Australia Embassy, at the

Sydney Conservatorium of Music The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and known by the moniker "The Con") is a heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the old ...

. She also studied at the .Luluk di Jakarta go.id
, Jakarta go.id, diakses 11 April 2011 She is married to a Dutchman named

Rene van Helsdingen Rene Peter Onno Rubiono van Helsdingen (born 25 February 1957) is a Dutch pianist and composer. He studied classical music with Komter Loeber in Blaricum in the Netherlands from 1962–72. Then he studied jazz music with Terry Trotter and Lazl ...

and they lived and worked together in the Netherlands. The trio that she played with was called the Helsdingen TrioLuluk Purwanto: You have to keep creating
, 18 March 2001, Jakarta Post, Retrieved January 2016 In 1985 she appeared at the

North Sea Jazz Festival The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival w ...

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in 1985 as a member of the Indonesian band Bhaskara.Luluk Purwanto
Bracknell Jazz, Retrieved January 2016 Luluk is credited with Bhaskara as the composer for

Seputar Indonesia ''Seputar Indonesia'' (translated ''Around Indonesia'') was Indonesia's longest running flagship newscast carried by a private television network. It debuted for the first time on the newly inaugurated RCTI on 15 November 1989 as the local news pr ...

theme music. She has lived in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

in Germany. In 2006 Purwanto awarded the prize the ''New Generation Jazz Award'' for the best young jazz musician at JakArt@2006 to ''Quicky''.

Selected discography

* ''Luluk - Aysha'' (Luluk Purwanto & the Helsdingen trio), 2007 *''"Impression of a tour"/ Mahabharata Jazz and Wayang'', 2004 *''Luluk - Brushes the CD & the Clip'', 2003 *''Luluk -Born Free-'', *''FILM2000'', 2000 *''LuLuK PuRwAntO & ThE HeLsdinGeN TriO - The Stage Bus'', 1994 *''Impressions of Indonesia'', 1986RLIxU000

References

1959 births Living people People from Surakarta Jazz violinists 21st-century violinists {{Indonesia-bio-stub