Mariska Setiawan is an Indonesian soprano. She lives in Surabaya.
Early life
Mariska was born in
Surabaya
Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of East Java and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. L ...
,
Indonesia. She has participated in
master classes in Indonesia and abroad, working with Stella Zhou, Professor
Renate Faltin, and
Ildikó Raimondi from Hochschule für Music Hanns Eisler (in
Berlin) and the Mozarteum (in
Salzburg).
Background
Mariska Setiawan has regularly collaborated with
Ananda Sukarlan
Ananda Sukarlan-Gomez (born in Jakarta, 10 June 1968) is an Indonesian-Spanish classical composer and pianist.
Background
He is the son of Sukarlan and Poppy Kumudastuti. He started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Marta ...
to sing in his concerts, which are based on literary works. In addition to the concerts, she has performed as the titular character of his opera, ''Tumirah'', which features the many important vocal works of Sukarlan:
* ''Rangkaian Rahasia untuk Mariska'' (5 songs for
soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...
& piano based on poems by Adimas Immanuel)
* 2 poems of Hasan Aspahani
* 3 poems of Nanang Suryadi
She performed as a soloist at the World Culture Forum 2016, and premiered Sukarlan's works based on Spanish poets
Miguel de Cervantes and
Federico García Lorca at the
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) is an annual 4-day literary festival held every October in Ubud on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Established in 2004, it is considered Southeast Asia’s biggest and most meaningful literary Festival. It ...
.
Mariska has released two albums. ''An Essay on Love'' was released in 2016, based on the request of the former-president of Indonesia (the late Professor
B.J. Habibie
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (; 25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh vice preside ...
) in memory of the president's late wife, Hj. Ainun.
[Kata Wart]
Mariska Setiawan: Seniman Harus Memiliki Identitas
watch on January 18, 2017
See also
*
Ananda Sukarlan
Ananda Sukarlan-Gomez (born in Jakarta, 10 June 1968) is an Indonesian-Spanish classical composer and pianist.
Background
He is the son of Sukarlan and Poppy Kumudastuti. He started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Marta ...
References
Indonesian sopranos
1990 births
Living people
21st-century Indonesian women singers
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