New Zealand pianist and composer Ross Carey will be in Indonesia this month to perform a programme of new piano music from around the region and beyond. Called "New Minimalism", it pools together a number of works that search for the voice of the 21st Century beyond what used to be called the "minimalist" school.

According to Carey, the term "New Minimalism" is taken loosely, and the concert itself will be a journey of discovery that will reveal the commonalities and differences in approach to new music today as it is conceived around the world.

The core of the programme features several established Indonesian composers, foremost amongst them Slamet Sjukur and his 1979 Svara. Michael Asmara and Sinta Wullur make up the rest of the home team in a programme that draws music from as far as Brazil to Japan.

If you happen to be in Jakarta or Jogja this month make sure you make a date for this musical rough guide to the World.

Jogjakarta, Thursday 14 February,
@ LIP, Jln Sagan No. 3, Time: 7.30pm, Entry Free

Jakarta, Wednesday 20 February,
@ TUK (Theatre Utan Kayu), Jakarta
Time: 8pm

Programme:

• Ayuo (Japan): When illusion looks like reality, then reality becomes just a fantasy
• Gareth Farr (New Zealand): Love Songs (2001)
• Sinta Wullur (Netherlands-Indonesia): Aqua Piano (2007)
• Alfredo Avotta Jnr. (Brazil): Meditaciones (1999)
• Luca Vanneschi (Italy): Per Pianoforte (1996)
• Slamet Sjukur (Indonesia): Svara (1979)<
• Lames Rolfe (Canada): Idiot Sorrow (1990)
• Michael Asmara (Indonesia): The River (1986)
• Kate Moore (Netherlands): Melodrama (2007)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (Australia): Eliza Aria (2006)
  
  

Carey will also be performing in a chamber music concert at the IWCM Festival in Beijing on 20 April 2008 (Time 4pm, Central Conservatory of Music Beijing) in a programme of Chinese and regional women composers:

• Kamalia Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijan): Scherzo
• Helen Fisher (New Zealand): Where the River Flows
• Judith Exley (New Zealand): Puketitiri
• Helen Bowater (New Zealand): Wire Dogs
• Bun-Ching Lam (Macao-China): nos 1 and 6 from Six Phenomena
• Salina Fisher (New Zealand): Moths in the Light and Raindrops on a Misty Pond
• Ross Carey (New Zealand): Piece breve sur le nom "Roland"
• Sun Yi Lin (China): Spring of Sharaba (violin and piano)
• Weily Luc (Belgium): Homeland's Dawn (violin, piccolo and piano)
• Elaine Barkin (U.S.A.): Song for Sarah (violin solo)
• Naoko Kachi (Japan): Expectation 2
• Xie Wehui (China): Space (prepared piano)
• Kate Moore (Netherlands): Melodrama
• May Howlett (Australia): no 4 from Stimmungen
• Susan Cohn Lackman (U.S.A.): Star Ferry (two pianos)

More info on the 2008 Beijing International Congress on Women in Music >

5 Feb 08