Gamelan Padhang Moncar rehearses on Monday nights from 6-8 at the NZ
School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington campus. Membership is open.
(Never too young to join!)
Please send us an e-mail (see below) if you would like to:
play gamelan
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Megan Collins is an exponent of Sumatran Music (rabab pasisia, voice and randai) in Wellington.
mp3 sample of saluang jo dendang (Megan Collins, voice; Rafiloza bin Rafii, saluang)
ARTISTS AND COMPOSERS we have worked
with
Jack Body - our
manager and a prominent NZ composer whose music is often influenced by
Asia (See article in Jakarta Post, November 2008) Gareth Farr - a prominent NZ
composer and percussionist who owns and co-directs the Balinese gamelan, Gamelan
Taniwha Jaya and writes for both Balinese and Javanese gamelan I Wayan Gde Yudane - a leading Balinese composer resident
in Wellington Chris Watson
- a prize-winning NZ composer who was commissioned to write a piece for us for
the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, 2007 Didik Nini Thowok - amazing
trans-gender Javanese dancer Waldjinah - famous kroncong diva Joko Susilo - Javanese
dalang (master shadow puppeteer), resident in Dunedin Slamet Gundono - incredible multi-disciplinary dalang, singer and more
Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu from Suarasama - Sumatran musicians
Gamelan Padhang Moncar rehearses on Monday nights from 6-8 at the NZ
School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington campus. Membership is open.
(Never too young to join!)