Background
Purwanto was born in the Indonesian city of Surakarta in 1959.
Purwanto was born in the Indonesian city of Surakarta in 1959.
She has studied at the Arts Institute in Yogyakarta in Java and thanks to a scholarship from the Australia Embassy, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
She has recorded since the 1980s. She has lived in the Netherlands and in Germany. Her parents were Aysha Gani and Julian Purwanto who were both musicians.
She took lessons in classical violin.
She also studied at the Institut Kesenian Jakarta. The trio that she played with was called the Helsdingen Trio She has lived in Munich in Germany.
In 2006 Purwanto awarded the prize the New Generation Jazz Award for the best young Jazz musician at JakArt2006 to Quicky.
In 1985 she appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 1985 as a member of the Indonesian band Bhaskara.
