Coaches

Imam Praseno fall in love with Piano Jazz since he was 14 years old, now he become one of Indonesian famous Jazz arrangers and composers. He also enrich his Piano Jazz skill with some Indonesians pianists: Elfa Secioria, Bambang Nugroho dan Indra Lesmana. In his hands, even a school band can perform like a pro. He came from Bandung to Jakarta every Wednesday just to teach you at D’Jazz Music School

Benny F. Sumarta has played piano for over 20 years, he learned Jazz Piano from Mr. Indra Lesmana, Mr. M. Jachja Salam and Mr. Glenn Dauna. He was a regular pianist in many five stars hotels, was a music director at one TV Station in Jakarta. He made some jingles for advertisement and a song arranger for radio recording. He played at lots of prestigious festival such as Java Jazz.

Yeny Kartika has a great passion in music, especially piano. She started her music lesson at Willy Soemantri majoring in Classical Piano and Vocal. Felt that mastering classical is not enough, she enrich her skill by learning Piano Contemporer (Jazz), Keyboard and Guitar. She has a lot of experiences as music teacher in many well-known schools and as a music and choir arranger. With this background she will give her best in teaching.

Christ Stanley Khoewell-Kainama, S.Pd. (Bachelor of Music Education), also known as Stanley, is a pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, producer, music director and arranger who was born in Bandung and has been in the music industry for around 10 years. Since 2006, Stanley has studied music with various music teachers and professional musicians: Henny Virgan, Muhammad Yahya Salam, Imam Pras, Venche Manuhutu, Aksan Sjuman, and Benny Likumahuwa. In his music career, Stanley has taught music since 2008 until now, in high-schools, Elfa’s Music School, Venche Music School Bandung, and teaching private courses. As a pianist/performer, Stanley has not only released his own music as singer-songwriter, but also worked and performed with countless artists of all kinds of genres, such as Tulus, Danilla, Benny Likumahuwa, Barry Likumahuwa, Gaby Idol, Monita Tahalea, P-Project, Keith Martin, Suave, D’Seeds, etc

Chika Olivia is a Jazz and contemporary trained pianist. She had developed her love for music and piano from her ears. Since childhood, she was exposed to songs from her parents’ collections or radios, and playing along with them. When she reached eventh grade, she was exposed to jazz and was intrigued to dig more about jazz. In high school, she went to contemporary music schools in Jakarta, Farabi and D’Jazz. From there, she met her band mates, West Funk Rhythm, and they played at jam sessions and jazz venues, inside and outside Jakarta. In 2015, she got accepted to Berklee College of Music in Boston and also received the Asia Tour Scholarship and Berklee Achievement Grant. Chika graduated from Berklee in May 2018 with a B.M. in performance, graduated Magna Cum Laude. After graduating, Chika performed at different kinds of events and recording sessions, helping fellow students and musicians with their music. She gigged both as a session player and an artist of her own, playing music ranging from Jazz and Funk to traditional music of her home country, Indonesia.

COMPOSING, SONG WRITING, AND PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE)
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND SONG WRITER INTERNSHIP
NOANOA MUSIC | JUNE – AUGUST 2017
Co-wrote and co-arranged song to pitch in China’s movie with Roxanne Seeman and Jeff Bova. Responsible for all the recording process
PRODUCER, SONG WRITER, COMPOSER, ARRANGER
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | 2014 – 2018
Composed, arranged, and produced singles: “Hey There” (Pop/R&B), “One Way Love” & “Run Back In Time” (Pop), “Lies” (Electronic/Pop). Collaborated with other writers
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, AND PIANIST, ALYJELLETHEEP
BOSTON | AUGUST 2016 – 2018
Composed two of the songs in Alyjelle the EP. Collaborated with engineering and songwriting
student for the project. Collaborated with animators from MassArt. Scored an advertisement.