26th - 29th April 2012

Southbank Gamelan Players perform alongside groups from around the UK and beyond including an all night wayang performance and masterclass with Bp Aloysius Suwardi.

Further details: http://www.york.ac.uk/music/conferences/gathering-of-the-gamelans/

DATES FOR 2010

Southbank Gamelan Players and Plaid tour.

Electro-alchemists Plaid blend their trademark sound with the mesmerising textures and rhythms of a Javanese gamelan orchestra. Gamelan has influenced so much western electronic, from Aphex Twin to Kode9, but both genres have never before shared the same stage, until now.

Commissioned by Southbank Centre as part of Ether 2009, Electronic Music Duo Plaid

worked with Artist in Residence Rahayu Supanggah and Ensemble in Residence Southbank Gamelan Players to create an exciting collaboration of gamelan and electronic music which was premiered in April 2009 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
SbGP and Plaid have since been developing this piece and embark on a tour starting in June 2010.

Tour dates:

• June 4: Bexhill
  De la Warr Pavilion
  tel: 01424 229111 or www.dlwp.com
• June 10: Bristol
  Arnolfini
  tel: 0117 917 2300 or www.qujunktions.com
• June 11: Birmingham
  MAC
  tel: 0121 446 3232 or www.capsule.org.uk
• September 29: Gateshead
  The Sage
  tel: 0191 443 4661 or www.thesagegateshead.org
• September 30: Leeds
  Howard Assembly Room
  tel: 0844 848 2727 or www.operanorth.co.uk
• October 1: Oxford
  Playhouse
  tel: 01865 305305 or www.ocmevents.org
• October 8: London
  Village Underground
  tel: 0870 264 3333 or www.seetickets.com

Click here to read a review of the original Plaid & Southbank Gamelan Players performance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2009.

Saturday 28 November 2009 7.30pm

Manchester
Birth, Death and Marriage: A Journey through life in Javanese Music and Dance

South Bank Gamelan Players make a welcome return to Manchester with a concert centered around the Javanese form of sung poetry called måcåpåt.

10pm: Wayang Kulit

In the informal surroundings of the RNCM Café Bar, this exciting English language performance of traditional Javanese shadow puppetry, accompanied by full gamelan, will fill the night with ancient wisdom and topical humour.

Box Office: 0161 907 5555

To hear music visit the Southbank Gamelan Players Alterhit page

Saturday 13 June 2009, 6.30pm

BP Lecture Theatre
London

Dancer Ni Made Pujawati and the Southbank Gamelan Players present music and dance from the royal courts of Central Java.

Saturday 6 June 2009, 7.30pm

Durham

Following a stunning show in the Gala Theatre last year, Musicon welcomes back Europe’s formost Gamelan group. From exuberant folk traditions to the refinement of the Javanese royal courts: Southbank Gamelan Players, Ensemble in Residence at London Southbank Centre, presents a rich and varied programme of music from Central Java.

Saturday 18 April 2009, 7.30pm

Plaid, Supanggah and Southbank Gamelan Players - Queen Elizabeth Hall

Featuring Southbank Gamelan Players playing Supanggah’s music in a pre-concert set in the hall, followed by sets from electronica duo Plaid, and a collaboration between Plaid, Supanggah and Southbank Gamelan Players.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 7.45pm

London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3
Purcell Room

Nominated for this year’s Mercury Award, the Portico Quartet play melodic, rhythmic music that mixes the inspiration of Philip Glass and Steve Reich with a very contemporary kind of improvisation - engagingly chiming themes delivered by steel pan-like Hang drums, saxophone and bass. They have played and busked all over the world, and they’ve always been fascinated by gamelan, so they jumped at the chance when Southbank Centre and the London Jazz Festival suggested a collaboration with Indonesian gamelan master Rahayu Supanggah, a Southbank Centre Artist in Residence, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Rahayu Supanggah opens the evening performing with Southbank Gamelan Players, Portico Quartet play their own set, and then Supanggah and Portico join forces.

26-29 August 2008

Terengganu International Gamelan Festival - Kuala Terengganu

Southbank Gamelan Players presents two programmes of new British music for gamelan in a festival featuring gamelan ensembles from Malaysia, Java, Bali, Japan and UK.