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!)
If you would like to join us, join 'Friends of
the gamelan' to receive e-mails about upcoming events, to book a
performance or workshop or generally contact us, please
Jack Body - our
manager and a prominent NZ composer whose music is often influenced by
Asia 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