Singer & Composer Peni Candra Rini in Concert

When:
May 06,2023 – May 06,2023 all-day
Where:
Hill Center DC
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Peni Candra Reni is a renowned Javanese singer, composer, and faculty member at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts. Peni first began studying voice at the age of 5 under her father, a village shadow master. She later moved to the Central Javanese town of Solo to study at the Indonesian National Conservatory of the Arts, where she completed her doctorate and was hired as faculty in 2020. She is a master of several traditional forms and is regarded as one of Indonesia’s most daring young composers, one of only a handful of female composers in the majority Muslim nation. The Kronos String Quartet is currently performing her latest chamber work, which they premiered this year at Carnegie Hall. She is a former recipient of grants from the Asian Cultural Council, is a two-time grantee of the US State Department’s One Beat Program and in 2022 was named an Aga Khan Foundation laureate of the arts. 


Additional Information and Tickets ($22  per person) can be found here