Music Fiesta with Trinity Musik, Jakarta

Dateline: Wednesday 19 November 2008

Today is Wednesday and we are now in Jakarta. It is in the morning and we are now in the distric of Pluit, north of Jakarta. This area is mostly chinese dominated and most of the residents are from Medan and it gives Wilson and me a chance to speak hokkien again with some of these people. The food around this area is also very much in similarity with the food of Penang.

We start our morning off with a round of workshops with the teachers of Trinity Music. They had prepared some of Pam Wedgwood's pieces to perform for us and after that Wilson gave some pointers as to how each performance could be improved and also how contemporary music should be interpreted. Here you can see Wilson showing how some areas of interpretation for contemporary music should be emphasied


As usual, any workshop would not be complete without a photo session to remember this occassion by. Incidentally, the owner Ms. Ellyn is the lady in black, second from the far right.



After the teacher workshop finished at around slightly after lunch, the students session started with the MPA performances with the children of Trinity Musik. At the end of the performances, they were rewarded with a follow-up book of their existing lesson book. You can see here, Ms. Ellyn giving out the books to the MPA children and just check out the happy faces!

Again, here you have another photo session of the children from the MPA session with their brand new Rhythm books by Lina Ng.
OH! That's me in the middle (back row) for those of you who still don't know me!!!

After we finished with the MPA session, it was time to bring out Wilson for the Music Fiesta where most of the students performes compositions from Pam Wedgwood and Christopher Norton's books. These children also received a certificate of participation from Rhythm MP Malaysia.


And what event would not be complete without a group photo of our most valuable hosts, Ms. Ellyn, and her husband Pak Arfusin of Trinity Musik. So here we have from left to right, Ms Yuni (Rhythm MP Jakarta), Ms. Ellyn, Wilson, Pak Arfusin, and yours truly.