Alvin lubis
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Alvin Lubis is an Indonesian professional musician, arranger and music producer
Record producer
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. He has been working around the local music industry since 1999. His début was to act as Music Director
Music director
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 in a local Music School along with his friends. Alvin spent years doing jazz and pop gigs around Jakarta
Jakarta
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 as sessionist, both live on stage and in recording studio
Recording studio
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. His first TV appearance was in the year 1999 with Los Morenitos Latin Band in a local weekly TV program, "Latin Night" (Metro TV), and also "KD Show" (Trans TV ; ) with Tohpati Big Band.

Gained reputation

He then gained more experiences from one concert to another with several artist managements and orchestras. In year 2000, Alvin was appointed as Faculty Dean at Institut Musik Indonesia (as previously known as Indonesia Music Institute or IMI). From here after, his popularity rose uninterruptedly. In year 2005, he joined Erwin Gutawa Production and formed his own orchestra line up, named Aluna Orchestra (named after the first daughter of Erwin Gutawa). First gig of Aluna was on RCTI
RCTI
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, but easily gained more corporate trust from Trans TV
Trans TV
Trans TV is an Indonesian national television station based in South Jakarta. Owned by Chairul Tanjung, it began broadcasting on 15 December 2001 based in Jakarta. On 15 December 2006 based in Jakarta due to its half ownership by Trans Corporation, a company that also owned Trans 7...

 which has been his loyal client so far.

As producer

Alvin had also teamed up with his old school mate, Andezzz, to launch a chillout album named Andezzz and The Departure People sometimes in 2006. The album has been played thousands of times on radio and local clubs. In year 2007, Alvin co-produced a very well crafted Jazz Album "Bali Lounge2" under Omega Pacific Production, teamed up with Lewis Pragasam
Music of Malaysia
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 (Malaysian drummer) and Chris Wright (Australian guitarist). The album was a success compared to other jazz artist in the local industry. Alvin then produced the singer's solo Album
Solo album
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 (Iwan Abdie), still under Omega Pacific Production. In year 2008, Alvin collaborated with Erwin Gutawa for Rossa
Rossa (singer)
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's Solo Concert, where he was appointed as second arranger, and band leader
Bandleader
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, all the way to the following tours in the next year.

Current activity

Around 2008 and 2009, Alvin managed to join his old friend Andezzz to work on music scoring for several local movie, as well as their soundtracks (Basahhh, Janda Kembang, and others), not to mention a number of jingle productions. And at the moment, Alvin is still producing more artists, conducting as Head of School at IMI, and writing scores for Aluna Orchestra and Erwin Gutawa Orchestra.

External links

  1. Institut Musik Indonesia
  2. Alvin's Official Site
  3. Omega Pacific Production
  4. Bali Lounge2 on Reverb Nation
  5. Andezzz on Disctarra Online
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