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Grand prize winners at last year's Choir Olympics in Busan and at a similar competition in Linz, Austria in 2000, is a group of more than 40 performers.

The troupe's leader, Elfa Secioria, is a grand figure in the region's music scene. Born in 1959 to Hasbullah Secioria, a famous musician and conductor, he has been dedicated to performing and music education.

He founded Elfa's Music Studio, a private music school, and selected the best students from the school to tour around the world as cultural envoys of the country.

Elfa's Jazz & Pop Singers have released 18 albums since their debut in 1984, selling more than 3 million copies. Especially popular around Southeast Asia, they've picked up awards at various music contests, including Indonesia Pop Song Award in 1988 and Thai International Jazz Festival in 1996.

The group united with Elfa's Choir, composed of 32 singers, in 1988, to form the present group. The choir is known for singing a cosmopolitan repertoire in the Indonesian style.

(Born Februari 20, 1959 in Garut, West Java) is an Indonesian composer, arranger and Jazz Musician. Elfa appears as Music Director, Arranger on score "Sherina Musical Movie" and Andhien single album "Bisikan Hati".

His many awards Grand Champion and Gold Medal include; 1st Choir Olympic 2000, Linz, Austria; 2nd Choir Olympic 2002, Busan, South Korea; 3rd Choir Olympic 2004, Bremen, Germany and 4th Choir Olympic 2006, Xiamen, China...

The Choir lead by famous Indonesian musician, Mr. Elfa Secioria, once again gained achievement in Italy, 22 -- 24 October 2004.

The International Choir Competition & Festival in Grado, Italy is a routine happening held by Inter-Culture World Organization Foundation based in Germany.

Besides Indonesia represented by Elfa's MYC, the festival also followed by other 13 countries which are Russia, Hungarian, Germany, Austria, China, Poland, Argentina, Denmark, Slovenia, Norway, Czech, Estonia and Britain.

On the festival Elfa's MYC brought 2 affiliated classic songs: 'Contrapunto bestialle alla mente' and 'Nightingale, the organ delight', also 2 ethnic songs: 'Paris Barantai' and 'Batak Medley'.

Through the process of panel judgment, Elfa's MYC finally grabbed 3 Prizes: Golden Prize, Special Prize for Outstanding Artistic Choir and also Champion Of The Category for Mix Junior Category.

The achievement in Grado added the champion list of the choir lead by Mr. Elfa Secioria as on July 2004 in Bremen, Germany, Elfa's Singers and Elfa's Ethnic Choir were crowned as The World Champion at The International Choir Olympic Champion. That's the third times they became the Olympic champ after Olympic 2000 in Linz, Austria and Olympic 2002 in Busan, Korea. 3 times in a row!!

On that 3rd Choir Olympics, 2 Golden Champions for Indonesia came from "Vocal Jazz With Accompaniment Category" with score 91 and for "Popular Choir Category", both by Elfa's Singers. The Vocal Jazz Category is the highest gold prize thus the winner in this category should become the grand champion.

Indonesia also got 3 Gold, one of them came from "Folklore With Instrumental Accompaniment Category" by Elfa's Ethnic Choir with score 82.75.

Mr. Secioria's arranged songs that finally grabbed gold are: How High The Moon, Bungong Jeumpa/Acehnese, No More blues, Minang Medley, Take Five, Sundanese Medley, Stompin at the Sandy Medley, and Janger/Balinese and many more.

For this great achievement, the world admits that Indonesia is the world direction of reference popular choir. Ironically, never once of these achievements got attention from the government. The contingents always had to pay themselves for joining this competition. They stay in a cheap hotel, pay the bills themselves and even happened to walk to the competition area just like they did in Bremen.

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