Enjoy an intimate acoustic performance of small ensemble music from the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. Unlike the large symphonic ensembles most commonly presented in the U.S., the gamelan instrumentation featured in this performance showcases the harmony within small groups of musicians. You will experience the dynamic contrasts between Javanese gadhon and Balinese gender wayang small ensembles. The featured artists will be joined by local musicians from Gamelan Sari Raras and Gamelan Sekar Jaya.

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MIDIYANTO is a musician and puppet master (dhalang) from Wonogiri, Central Java, coming from a family of artists. For over thirty years he has taught and performed extensively in Java, the U.S., Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, including ten years in Portland, as the gamelan director at Lewis & Clark College, where he earned an MA. He has been featured in several documentary films and directed the gamelan on for the CD Shadow Music of Java, recorded at the Smithsonian. He has taught and directed gamelan at UC Berkeley since 2004, after an earlier stint
from 1988 to 1992.

HENI SAVITRI began to study sindhènan (Javanese singing with gamelan) in 2002. In 2003 she won the competition for best singer in her native district of Wonogiri, Central Java. She entered the Performing Arts Conservatory in Surakarta in 2004, and began representing the institution in competitions the following year as well performing in shadow plays. Upon enrolling in the Indonesian Arts Academy in Surakarta she was selected as the singer for many recordings of new faculty compositions and traditional works, representing the academy in the 2008 international vocal competition in Jakarta. Since coming to the United States she has been in great demand
for concerts by the leading gamelan ensembles in America.

NI NYOMAN SRAYAMURTIKANTI: Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti is a composer and performer of Balinese gamelan, and currently a master artist-in-residence at Gamelan Sekar Jaya in Berkeley. She has studied Balinese arts since childhood with some of Bali’s most highly regarded musicians, including I Ketut Cater and I Made Subandi. She holds a master’s degree in composition from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta. She is also the founder of Sanggar S’Mara Murti, and was featured as a guest speaker in Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s 2020 Bali’s Living Arts speaker series.