During the three days of Festival, our several stages will offer the audience music and dance performances available for general admission.
Ayu Laksmi grew up surrounded by a family that loved the arts and music in particular. She actively participates in performances on numerous stages of festivals both locally in Bali and Indonesia as well as all around the world. Ayu brings her songs in a new musical style known as World Music. Most of the compositions are based on the Balinese concept of Tri Hita Karana, dedicated to the love and care between people, the relationships between man and the universe, and between man and God. Her enchanting voice gives new soul to Namaste Festival.
I Made Sentana – Tabla Music
Four years ago, Made discovered the ancient arts of Indian Tabla percussion. Learning Tabla is his first quasi-official musical training, for this is the first time he learns to play a musical instrument under the guidance of a teacher. Melody lines or musical ideas would come up in his head, which he then rendered into songs or musical compositions at his makeshift home studio. His compositions range from blues to techno, mostly spiced with Balinese and Indian elements. Through Tabla, he also discovered the art of Bhajan singing, or Indian devotional singing. Made occasionally accompanies his Tabla Teacher Mr. ABL. Shrivastava singing Bhajans in and outside Jakarta. He recently met several like-minded friends in Jakarta who also enjoy bhajan singing, whom he accompanies with tabla. Made also regularly practices yoga, which is a perfect match for his love of Bhajan singing, to maintain his health and sanity.
Martinus Miroto, or Miroto for short is not just a dancer, he is a world acclaimed contemporary dancer. Miroto is a choreographer and also a teaching staff in IKJ serving bachelor and master class. He has won numerous national and international awards since 1979 and producing more than 40 shows in his career. His interest in yoga and well-being bring him to Namaste Festival, sharing his knowledge and experience with the audience.
Paquita was widely known by her album “Yang Perdana” in 1995. Although music is always her first love, yet most of the time she’s busy in the film industry. She has worked for Tira Fashion, a lecturer at the Jakarta Arts Institute (IKJ), and Designing Titles for Film at the Faculty of Film and Television. 16 years since her last album, Paquita is back as a recording artist releasing album Asa (2011) with the talented Rishanda Singgih, as the Music Producer. This album is a compilation of cover songs by Indonesian popular artists and song writers in the 70s – 90s with a “new twist” of chill out arrangements. Enjoy her mellow and romantic voice only at Namaste Festival.
Rama Widi, born in August 1985, has played the harp since 2004 under Julia Reth and finished his study with distinction on 2010, Classical voice with Robert Fontane, and conducting with Lazlo Gereb at the Vienna Conservatory in Austria. He has performed as soloist in orchestras such as the Jakarta Chamber Orchestra, Capella Amadeus String Chamber Orchestra, Joseph Haydn Konzertverein, Symphonia Vienna, Twilite Orchestra, Cikini Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Simfoni Universitas Indonesia Mahawaditra. In additional, he also performed the World Premier of ‘Nusantara Variations for 2 Harps and Orchestra’ by Hari Poerwanto, and ‘Nyanyian Negeriku for Harp and Orchestra’ by Singgih Sanjaya.
Rama has participated in masterclasses with Jana Bouskova, Elzbieta M. Smyth, Prof. Susan McDonald, Marie-Claire Jamet, and Erika Waardenburg. In July 2007, he was an artist in the Vienna Jazz Festival and had a solo concert at the Arkadenhof Rathaus.
Rama has performed with virtually every orchestra in Indonesia and the following orchestras in Austria and Hungary: Camerata Musica Vienna, Joseph Haydn Konzertverein, Konzert des Musikvereins 1837 St. Pölten Orchestra, Chor und Orchester der Universitätssängerschaft Waltharia, Göttingen Philharmonic, Metropolitan Kammerorchester, Sinfonietta Del’arte, Zoltan Kodály World Youth Orchestra, Köszeger Orchester, Symphonia Vienna, and Camerata Schulz. Rama has participated in several opera productions such as Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni (2005), L’Elisir D’amore, Donizetti (2008), Drei Mäderlhaus, Schubert (2008), The Turn of The Screw, Britten (2009), and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini (2011).
Before focusing in harp, Rama learned to play almost every other musical instrument such as organ, violin, viola, piano, clarinet, percussion and also traditional Indonesian music instruments in advance level. Actually, he first started with the organ at the age of 6. He also have played recitals, solo performances with orchestra and chamber music by using different instruments mentioned above. Besides studying music in Vienna, he joined the traditional Indonesian dancing group Gema Puspa Nusantara and been introducing the beautiful traditional Indonesian culture and dances by performing all around Austria with the group ever since.
Enjoy pop songs with jazz arrangements by the Untitled Trio: vocal by Bun Sentoso, piano by Giovanni Panaka and bass by Aldy Mahardhika.
