suhirdjan | Suhirdjan: Reverberations

Stepping Notes

Nikhil Dally has an innovative early-years music education program, Stepping Notes, which includes specially commissioned gamelan-based instruments, including a slentho with 3 keys, a demung with 5 keys, and a…

Multifoon Foundation

Sinta Wullur founded Multifoon Foundation in 1993 to stimulate the interaction between non-Western music and contemporary music. She commissioned a 12-tone chromatically tuned gamelan. The slenthem, demung, saron, and peking…

Gamelan Chakrabhaswara

Gamelan Chakrabhaswara was used at the British International School Jakarta and at a smaller school called Lentera International School, which was located inside Wisma Subud. These photos of are a…

University of Pittsburgh

Kyai Tirta Rukmi is alive and well! It is mostly used for Sundanese gamelan, but we play Javanese music occasionally. Website: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/gamelan/ http://www.music.pitt.edu/gamelan/ Andrew N. Weintraub Chair and Professor of…

Brian Noyes

Brian Noyes has recently purchased the gamelan originally sent to Atlantic College. He is in the process of establishing a gamelan teaching program in the west of Wales. briannoyes.co.uk

Nancy Cooper

When I was doing fieldwork in Yogyakarta in 1989 and 1990, I commissioned a small slendro Yogyanese gamelan from Ki Suhirdjan. Due to budget and space constraints, I requested a…

Yogya Kids Playgroup and Kindergarten

In 2002, Yogya Kids Playgroup and Kindergarten in Yogyakarta purchased a mini-gamelan. The students enjoyed learning simple pieces. When the school closed, the gamelan was purchased by Oliphant Playgroup Kindergarten…

Jakarta International School

The gamelan mas Hirdjan made for JIS is housed at the Pondok Indah Campus. It is used by 5-12 year-olds from over 24 countries. Gamelan is part of the music…

International School of Amsterdam

Gamelan continues to be a constant thread of the Music programme here at ISA from Middle School to 12th Grade providing a real-life entrance into a world and a culture…

Gamelan Pacifica

In 1987, Gamelan Pacifica director, Jarrad Powell, commissioned the building of a new gamelan in Java to expand the instrumentation of their ensemble. The new gamelan was a full slendro/pelog…