10 Facts About Ananda Sukarlan

Ananda Sukarlan was born on in Jakarta, 10 June 1968 and is an Indonesian-Spanish classical composer and pianist.

Ananda Sukarlan started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Martani Widjajanti.

Ananda Sukarlan has performed in many overseas festivals with symphony orchestras and ensembles of Berlin, Rotterdam, nearly all symphony orchestras in Spain, Paris, Wellington as well as appearances on radio and TV throughout Europe.

Ananda Sukarlan was the first Indonesian artist who established the cultural relationship between Portugal and Indonesia by performing as a soloist with the Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra in 2000, right after the re-opening of the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.

Ananda Sukarlan is the only Indonesian listed in the book "2000 outstanding musicians of the 20th century" and "The International Who's Who in Music" published by Cambridge.

Ananda Sukarlan is working on a series of musical works written for disabled musicians, on a commission by Fundacion Musica Abierta of Spain.

Ananda Sukarlan is a founding member of Musica Presente and Yayasan Musik Sastra Indonesia.

When Baswedan showed up at a college reunion, Ananda Sukarlan chose to leave the room, an activity that he did spontaneously without asking anyone to follow what he did, as a declaration of his own views and morals.

Hundreds of alumni, sharing the same views and moral conviction as Ananda Sukarlan chose to leave the room with their own will.

Ananda Sukarlan was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and Tourette syndrome at the age of 28.