I Ketut Gede Asnawa and The University of Illinois Balinese Gamelan
University of Illinois World Percussion Ensemble - Balinese Gamelan Music from Indonesia
World Showcase Concert
Thursday, 2:00 p.m.

I Ketut Gede Asnawa is a composer, performer, and scholar from Bali, Indonesia. He has taught at the government-sponsored secondary- and tertiary-level conservatories of Balinese music since 1980. His compositions have been featured at the Festival of Young Composers in Jakarta and the annual Bali Arts Festival. Recently, his importance as a composer and innovator in Balinese music was recognized in Grove Music Online. An accomplished gamelan musician, Asnawa has toured Europe, the United States, and Asia. A demanding but charismatic teacher, he has taught gamelan groups at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Université de Montréal, Eastman School of Music, University of Missouri Kansas City, as well as private gamelan groups in New York, California, and the Netherlands. Since 2006, he has been a long-term visiting artist at the Center for World Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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