Guest Artists in Residence
Guest Dance Director, Fall 2009. Emiko is a dancer, singer, and musician born in Honolulu and raised in Los Angeles. The daughter of esteemed Javanese musician Hardja Susilo and dancer/arts presenter Judy Mitoma, she was surrounded by great artists from a young age. In 1990 she began her formal study of Javanese gamelan ad Javanese singing under Bapak Midiyanto and later continued under Bapak Tri Haryanto.
Guest Music Director, Fall 2009. Mr. Arnawa is a prolific composer, performer, and teacher from the artistically rich village of Tunjuk—known for its diverse performing arts traditions in music, dance and Gamelan Sekar Jaya (GSJ) is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, Gamelan Sekar Jaya has performed throughout California, the US, and Bali—in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. Read more about GSJ