Ardjoena Petrus Soerjadi was born in Rotterdam on 23rd August 1972. He astonished the public for the first time as an eleven-year-old boy during the final night of the three-day piano concert in The Doelen, Rotterdam. Shortly after that he was prize-winner at the Princess Christina competition.

He received a piano education at the Conservatoire Rotterdam from master pianist Daniël Wayenberg and Michael Davidson. He studied for his second major, orchestral conducting, under Arie van Beek, Daan Admiraal and Jurjen Hempel. He was granted the exceptional VSB-Scholarship, with which he traveled to Moscow to obtain a piano and conducting education at the renowned Gnesin School under Vladimir Tropp and Watjeslav Tjisjakov.

The Conductor

He is heard and seen on radio and TV both at home and abroad, in countries including Italy, Belgium and Russia.

He conducts orchestras such as the National Philharmonic Orchestra, The Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra, The Dutch Promenade Orchestra, the Czestochwa Philarmonic from Poland and the Symphonic Orchestra from Flanders, with whom he has performed piano concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Liszt in the Netherlands’ most prominent concert halls, with his brother Wibi Soerjadi as a soloist.

The press praises him for the harmonious ensemble playing he achieves between orchestra and soloist, and for the beautiful sound he has created with the orchestra.

From 1995 to 2004 he was assistant conductor under the famous Giuliano Carella, Fabio Maestri, Massimo de Bernart and Gabriele Bellini at the Belcanto Festival in Dordrecht. He conducted operas by Donizetti, Bizet, Meyerbeer and Rossini with an international cast, and during the Jubileum year he led Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

He conducted the operettas “Die Lustige Witwe” by Lehár, “Der Vogelhändler” by Zeller and “Im Weissen Rössl” by Benatzky. In October 2008 the operetta “Der Zigeunerbaron” by Johann Strauss will be performed in the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague.

Ardjoena Soerjadi leads several choirs, including the Residentie Operette ODES in The Hague, Ventura in Hellevoetsluis and the Gemengd Koor Spijkenisse.

The Pianist

Ardjoena Soerjadi performs in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy.

With Daniël Wayenberg, Louis van Dijk and Hans Oudenaarden he recorded a cd with concertos by Bach for 2,3, and 4 pianos. It was an unique production as he had the exceptional task of being both soloist and conductor.

As concert pianist, vocal coach, choirmaster and conductor, well acquainted with symphonic and vocal repertoire, chamber music, opera and operetta,

Ardjoena Soerjadi may be considered an exceptional musician.

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