Gamelans | Suhirdjan: Reverberations

Open Arts

We are based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We use our lovely gamelan for community groups and often with people with disabilities, so it's become a little battered over the years,…

Toronto District School Board

Though I didn’t know him very well personally, I will never forget Suhirdjan’s innovative spirit. He was of immeasurable help guiding me through my first gamelan ordering experience in 2000-2001.…

American School of the Hague

The school gamelan is taught every day in different classes for one and a half months each semester. Students in grades 6, 7 and 8 learn gamelan in their World…

The Hull Music Service took delivery of our gamelan, Kyai Sri Jaladri Naga, in February 2002. It now lives at the Albemarle Music Centre in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and it is used regularly for workshops with school…

Marvin Goldman

Marvin Goldman purchased a gender barung (pelog) in 2001, a gender panerus in 2006 and two more gender panerus in 2012. One gender panerus slendro is now part of Gamelan…

St Aloysius College

At St Aloysius College we have taken gamelan into our heart! We are grateful to Mas Suhirdjan for making and tuning our gamelan for us. His photo is on the…

Giovanni Sciarrino

Pak Suhirdjan made the pelog section, 'Kaduk Raras', of the Montebello Gamelan. This complete Javanese gamelan has the unique characteristic--outside of Java--of being housed in its own open-walled pendopo. But…

Harvey Mudd College

Suhirdjan built the instruments for the HMC American Gamelan, currently in use in Claremont, California. It is a set of iron and brass instruments tuned to my own versions of…

Alan Zimmerman

I have no experience with gamelan as I am strictly a Western-style percussionist. However, I commissioned this unique instrument in order to perform Claude Vivier's percussion solo Cinq Chansons pour…

Arizona State University

I teach "Children of the Mud Volcano," a Central Javanese gamelan ensemble class at Arizona State University. We play traditional repertoire, but often with somewhat eclectic and neoIndonesian techniques appended…