Pianist, Ines Irawati, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia.  She began piano and composition instruction at age six at the Yamaha Music School in Indonesia.  She then made her orchestra debut at age twelve, playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 and Chopin first concerto with the Indonesian Youth Symphony.  As a composer, her works have been performed in Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Japan, where Ms. Irawati performed her first concerto with the Tokyo Symphony for the International UNICEF Benefit.  In 1995, her work for solo flute, “Flirting Belugas”, was published by the Manduca Music Publication.

          At the age of 14 years old, Irawati was recommended by Jahja Ling, the new appointed director of the San Diego Symphony, to join a prestigious program for young talented musicians at the Cleveland Institute of Music, called the Young Artists Program.  She was then accepted under full scholarship under the tutelage of Olga Radosavljevich, with whom she continued her studies through out her undergrad.  She received her Bachelors of Music with honors in 2000 from the Cleveland Institute of Music. 

          Irawati has performed with many orchestras, including a performance of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra at Severance Hall.  Prizes she has won included Suburban Concerto Competition, Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, and third prize in the D’angelo International Young Artists Competition.  She also was invited to perform in many musical events, including a music program called “American in Paris” with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, as well as in a music portion of the United States Decathlon.  Recently her education varies from summer music festival at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where she studied vocal accompanying with Warren Jones and Marilyn Horne, and two-year masters program at Yale University, where she studied with Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, and Kikuei Ikeda(second violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet).   As a vocal accompanist, Irawati was awarded Best Accompanist by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and was invited to collaborate with baritone Nikolai Janitzky for a New York debut, sponsored by the foundation.  As both a solo and collaborative pianist, she has participated in master classes with such noted musicians as Joseph Silverstein, Warren Jones, Dawn Upshaw, Anton Kuerti, Emmanuel Ax, and Murray Perahia.