Imma Setiadi Pianis Profile - 022019
Imma Setiadi Pianis Profile - 022019
Imma Setiadi Pianis Profile - 022019
Imma Setiadi was born in Surabaya, Indonesia. A fascination for the piano at her home led
to lessons with local teachers who suggested a more serious training. She received her early
musical training most notably from So Kim Wie, Fefe Thessa, Amanda Soebadi and Oddy
Hindrawan. At the age of fifteen, she was invited to perform one of her own compositions in
UNICEF-YAMAHA Junior Original Concert in Hong Kong.
She then received her Bachelor of Music degree (first class honours) from the Yong Siew
Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore with Albert Tiu and a Distinction in her Master of
Music degree where she studied with Nigel Clayton at the Royal College of Music, London. In
2017 she completed her Doctoral degree from the RCM, studying with Nigel Clayton and
Amanda Glauert where she explored her interest in cross-arts practice and concert
experience as a pianist. This performance-research project has been featured at the RCM
Great Exhibitionist Series, Trinity Laban Music and Arts Festival, the Deal Festival, RNCM
HARP Conference and The Reflective Conservatoire Conference. She is truly grateful for the
support of RCM Study Award, Indonesian Beasiswa Unggulan, the Seary Charitable Trust,
Talent Unlimited Charity, anonymous, and PAL charity.
Since her coming to the UK, she has performed in many prestigious venues. As a soloist and
chamber musician she has appeared at the Bridgewater Hall, the Purcell Room at Southbank
Centre, Steinway Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, Turner Contemporary, The Red-House (the
house of Britten-Pears), the Royal Academy of Arts, Holywell Music Room (Oxford), the
National Gallery, Blackheath Halls, and Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall. With the Pacific
Trio (violin, clarinet, and piano), she commissioned and premiered the London Tales project
which was most enthusiastically received at St. Martin-in-the-fields. Her recent
saxophone/piano duo performance (Duo Fantasia) at the Sugrizimai Festival in Vilnius was
broadcasted by the Lithuanian National Radio.
Her playing was further encouraged through prizes at the Beethoven Piano Society of
Europe Concerto Competition, the National Piano and Violin Competition in Singapore, RCM
Beethoven Kendall Taylor Prize, RCM Piano Chamber Music Competition, and Eastbourne
Young Soloist Competition. Her concerto engagements have included Shostakovich Piano
Concerto 1 (the University Hall, Cambridge), Schumann Concerto, Poulenc Aubade, Finzi
Eclogue, Carmichael Concerto for piano duet, and Beethoven Emperor Concerto (at St.
Martin-in-the Fields).
In masterclasses, she has worked with Michel Beroff, Angela Hewitt, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
Pascal Godart, Ulrich Koella, Pascal Roge, Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau. She has
been engaged as a piano accompanist for masterclasses by world renown instrumentalists
such as Pinchas Zukerman (violin), James Galway (flute), Ole Kristian-Dahl (bassoon),
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Fiona Bonds (viola) and Jacques
Tys (oboe).
She has been selected as one of young artists for the Park Lane Group, Manchester Mid-Day
Concerts Society and Leeds Lieder Festival. She held the post of Junior Fellow in Piano
Accompaniment at the RCM (Gilbert and Eileen Edgar, 2015/2016) and at Trinity Laban
Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2016-2018). She works as an accompanist and teaches
aural skills at the RCM and as a piano teacher at Loughborough Endowed Schools, all-
Steinway Music Department. She is also a deputy (musicianship, chamber music and
accompanist) at the RCM Junior Department and Junior Trinity, a Leverhulme/Pro Corda
Fellow in Chamber Music and a LPO Foyle Future Firsts 2018-2019.