Aryo Wicaksono
Virtuoso Talent with Solid Technique and Sensitive Expressiveness.
Hailed by the SF Examiner after his San Francisco recital debut as a “virtuoso talent, offering an excellent combination of solid technique and sensitive expressiveness,” pianist Aryo Wicaksono has performed as a featured soloist and chamber musician in venues and festivals throughout the United States and in major cities internationally—and was the first Western classical music artist to hold a visiting artist-in-residence position at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Recent highlights include the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto with Indonesia’s Nusantara Symphony Orchestra, under Maestro Hikotaro Yazaki; Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with United Arab Emirates Philharmonic Orchestra, under Philipp Maier; Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto, in a sold-out orchestral debut with Russia’s St. Petersburg State Symphony; Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto in Tucson with Civic Orchestra of Tucson; and a 10-city tour of the U.S. East Coast with Dance Theatre of Harlem.
As musical director and pianist for the William Finn’s musical Elegies–Looking Up, Wicaksono won the Arizona Daily Star’s 2006 MAC Award for Best Musical Performance and the Tucson Weekly’s Best Musical in Tucson for 2006-2007 season. As a composer, Wicaksono created scores for the independent Japanese film short Dream of an Hour. He was pianist-composer in residence for the American Academy of Ballet School in July 2011, and some of his music was set into a ballet for the San Francisco-based Teatro Jaguar Luna.
Aryo Wicaksono from Indonesia with Martha Argerich from Argentina
Currently Membership Manager for Chamber Music America, Wicaksono has also served as a consultant for music and music-development programs for universities and academies in South East Asia, United Arab Emirates, and Vancouver, BC, and was one of the judges for the 2nd Thailand Mozart International Piano Competition in June 2012. His former piano students have gone to attend undergraduate and graduate programs on full scholarships at The Curtis Institute of Music, Peabody Conservatory at the Johns Hopkins University, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, and Yong-Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore. He taught a Colloquium Seminar Class in music career management for musicians at NYU Steinhardt in the Fall 2013, and has continued giving various classes in music career management at various universities such as Southwestern College San Diego, University of Arizona, and Assumption University in Thailand. As a session presenter at regional conferences such as Western Arts Alliance, Arts Midwest, and SouthArts, he is also a Board Member of the Art-of-Giving Back organization (www.artofgivingback.org), and artistic director of Yogyakarta International Music Festival Academy. He currently lives in New York City. Upcoming 2015-2016 and beyond concert / teaching engagements will include Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Serbia.
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