GAMELAN YOWANA SARI

New York-based Gamelan Yowana Sari, 20 artists performing traditional Balinese music and dance for the Samara Dana gamelan, plus contemporary compositions by Dewa Alit, Michael Gordon, Kyle Miller, and Evan Ziporyn.

Tickets for students and youth are FREE.

Since forming in 2011, Gamelan Yowana Sari has been a performing Balinese Art Ensemble in residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY. Under the direction of Michael Lipsey and Fred Trumpy, Yowana Sari have toured Bali multiple times, studying and performing under the master composer and musician I Dewa Ketut Alit in Pengosekan, Bali. In 2024, the group commissioned new works from Michael Gordon and Evan Ziporyn and will perform them alongside compositions by Dewa Alit and Kyle Miller at PS21, Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, and the MASS MoCA Summer Music Festival.

Dewa Ketut Alit is the leading Balinese composer of his generation, whose creative and collaborative approach to Balinese gamelan music has contributed to its worldwide popularity. New York’s Gamelan Yowana Sari have traveled to Bali and back to bring Dewa Alit and his work Pangenter Alit I Ketutto PS21.

Program:

Pendet Penyambutan — Traditional
Dancer – Miranda Danusugongo

Stones are the Flowers — Kyle Miller

Sea Salt — Michael Gordon

Pangenter Alit I Ketut — Dewa Alit
Dancer – Miranda Danusugondo

Aeriform Kite — Evan Ziproyn

Join us after the performance to try out the instruments and talk with the performers!

American gamelan and new music pioneer Lou Harrison described the music as “a sonorous world of beauty that reaches from the bottom to the top of the audible range.”

Read Matthew Gurewitsch’s preview of the concert in AIR MAIL.