User:Arinikumara

Arini C. Kumara

Arini started her first music lesson at the age of 4 at Kursus Musik Anak Yamaha. After 6 years, she continued her music lesson by learning the drums for one year. In 2000, Arini followed her father’s advice to learn Cello at Sekolah Musik Indonesian Youth Orchestra.

In her 3 years of study, she was taught by several cello teachers namely Sulistyo Rini, Haryo Suyoto, and Syamsul Rizal Ikhwan. Then she enrolled at Jakarta Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Asep Hidayat and Haryo Suyoto. She was a member and later the principle cellist for the National Youth Orchestra Indonesia in 2002 – 2005 with conductor Raimund See and Iswargia R Sudarno.

After 6 years playing the cello in numbers of well-known orchestra in Indonesia, in 2006 Arini joined the Daya Orchestra and this motivated her to enroll as a student at IMDI. Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah convinced her to study the contrabass as her major instrument. Then Arini enrolled at IMDI taking the Certification Program. She continued her study to pursue the Bachelor Degree majoring in Contrabass Performance and Master Degree. She finally graduated as Master of Music in 2012 majoring in Music Arrangement & Orchestration.

She studied at IMDI with Prof. Dr. Tjut Nyak Deviana Daudsjah; Sri Aksana Sjuman, M.Mus; Titi Rajo Bintang, B.Mus; Lie Indra Perkasa, M.Mus; Yudo Nugroho Doni Sunjoyo, B.Mus; Rangga Tarmizi, B.Mus; Jelia Megawati Heru, M.Mus; Mery Kasiman, M.Mus; Julian Marantika, B.Mus; Nikita Jeffrey Dompas, B.Mus; Ali Akbar Sugiri, M.Mus; Sandy Winarta, B.Mus and Karoline Hoefler, M.Mus.

She is currently working on her solo electric cello project which can be seen live on stage and also on youtube. The project itself consisting of collaboration with different musicians per project and playing various style and genre from traditional, rock,pop, contemporary and also experimental.

She is also an active session player & recording artist,

Cellist in Chroma String Quartet (http://www.facebook.com/chromastringquartet) ,

Bassist of @hiramusik

(http://www.facebook.com/hiramusik),

(http://www.instagram.com/hiramusik)

a certified instructor for National Certification of Music (Lembaga Sertifikasi Musik Nasional),

and also an active arranger and composer of Musicater (http://www.musicater.net).