May – June 2002

British tour with Javanese dance company Wahyuning Kuswala, including the sacred Srimpi dance which was originally restricted to the inner circle of the royal courts.

March 2002

A tour in France (Lyon, Bourg-en-Bresse, Grenoble) of new compositions by French composers François-Bernard Mâche and Jean-Yves Bosseur jointly commissioned by GRAME and the Cité de la Musique (Paris) for gamelan, vocalist and midi keyboard, and performed by members of the Southbank Gamelan Players and of the Cité de la Musique gamelan. The programme also included the first performance of Bone Shadows by Symon Clarke.

Autumn 2001: the Southbank Gamelan Players appeared at the Settembre Musica Festival in Turin with the Javanese dance company Wahyuning Kuswala. The players were joined by nine dancers from the Kraton palace in Yogyakarta to give, with the Sultan’s blessing, a rare performance of the sacred bedhåyå dance.

The 50th anniversary of the Royal Festival Hall in 2001 – Southbank Gamelan Players celebrated with a newly revised version of Honeyed Thunder by Alec Roth.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 16 July 2001 as part of the SBC Rhythm Sticks Festival- with dancers: Didik Bambang Wahyudi and Kenneth Tharp
Including Alec Roth’s Songs and Dances from the Tempest, choreographed by Kenneth Tharp

A BBC Prom concert with musicians and dancers from STSI (Academy of Indonesian Performing Arts, Surakarta, Central Java) in 1998.

New Music ’98 – ISCM World Music Days at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester – a programme of contemporary gamelan music written or arranged by composers from the UK, Europe and America, including the first performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Waiting for the Wind, specially commissioned by Southbank Gamelan Players

Performances with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the 1996 Edinburgh International Festival, featuring the music of American composer Lou Harrison

The music-theatre work The Knight with the Lion commissioned with the help of the Arts Council of England from composer Adrian Lee and librettist Matthew Sweeney, and premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1995

MTV Unplugged with Björk – an arrangement of the song One Day, for gamelan, tuba and tabla