Concerto for orchestra and beatboxer
In 2012, he was still on the road with DJ Bobo on the Dancing Las Vegas tour. Now the beatboxer and jazz singer Indra Tedjasukmana is performing a movement from a concerto for orchestra, beatboxer, DJ and percussion by Gene Pritsker with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Kristjan Järvi.
At the premiere of the movement Migrational from the concerto for orchestra, beatboxer, DJ and percussion by Russian-born composer Gene Pritsker, Indra Tedjasukmana takes to the stage as DJ. The MDR Symphony Orchestra will also be joined by percussionist Philipp Bernhardt. The world premiere, entitled "Beethoven Beat Box", will be coupled with a performance of Beethoven's 8th Symphony, which was also unusual for its time.
The setting for the concert is the Ice Festival initiated by MDR chief conductor Kristjan Järvi from 15 to 25 January, which - in the words of the organizers - is now undertaking "a major expedition into the musical world of the north for the second time in various locations in Leipzig" after the Northern Lights Festival.
The integral beatbox concert by composer, guitarist, rapper and DJ Gene Pritsker will be performed at the MDR Symphony Orchestra's Midsummer Festival in June 2015 (June 21 to 30, 2015).
Indra Tedjasukmana, winner of the European Beatboxing Championships, is a lecturer in pop singing at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück. At the same time, he is doing his doctorate at the Münster University of Music on the subject of "A Cappella Pop and Beatbox". His book "Beatbox Complete" was awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2014.
