Portfolio
1999 – 2000 Preservation of three Pacung Village, Gianyar style gender wayang instrumental pieces. This music was taught to musicians outside of Pacung to encourage Balinese to appreciate other styles.
1999 – Purchased, reconstructed and retuned antique pelegongan (semara patangian) gamelan orchestra. Formed group of enthusiastic gamelan musicians to learn and play court repertoire originally from the Denpasar Palace and now known only in Pagan Kelod Village, Denpasar.
2001 – pelegongan group participated in opening parade and also performed Legong Kuntul and rare instrumental pieces at Bali Arts Festival.
2001 – pelegongan group, augmented with terompong, to play Pagan Kelod semara pagulingan and Kelandis pelegongan repertoire at Nusa Dua Arts Festival.
2002-2003 – Engaged pelegongan maestro I Wayan Kelo from Br Pande Mas, Kuta to teach rare and unrecorded pelegongan repertoire to our pelegongan group. Our pelegongan group learnt and recorded three pieces which had never been recorded before.
2003 – Pelegongan group performed at the opening of the Bali Arts Festival. Led by pelegongan maestro I Wayan Kelo, we played unrecorded pelegongan repertoire, composed in the 1930s by I Wayan Lotring,.
2004 – In order to increase the popularity of traditional gamelan in Sanur, founders taught gender wayang to a group of Balinese children on a volunteer basis.
2004 – Purchased and reconstructed antique seven tone semara pagulingan gamelan orchestra.
2004 – Pelegongan group performed Condong and Legong Kuntul, as well as two instrumental pieces, at Payangan Festival, Ubud.
2004-2005 – Conducted preservation project to preserve Singgi, Sanur style of pelegongan music. Engaged senior guru to teach pelegongan group five rare instrumental pieces.
2004 – Founders demonstrated and performed Balinese music and dance to the Indonesian Embassy, a retirement village and a kindergarten in Wellington. Our voluntary mission was to introduce Balinese art-forms to the general public in New Zealand.
2004 – Established the first gender wayang gamelan group in New Zealand.
2006 – Reconstruction of semara pagulingan completed and group started to learn court repertoires from recordings and elderly guru from the villages.
2006 – Our genggong (Jew’s harp) gamelan group was invited by International Jew’s Harp Festival in Amsterdam to perform in Holland.
2007 – pelegongan group presented a three-month production entitled ‘Classical Court Performances’ at Mercure Hotel in Sanur. Included explanation of the history of the rare music and dance, and also about the gamelan instruments and the dance costumes.
2007 – Pelegongan group invited to play at the opening night of the first Bali Film Festival. The group performed rare repertoire.
2007 – Pelegongan group, augmented with terompong, performed at the 200th anniversary memorial of the death of the Danish trader, Mads Lange, who lived in Kuta in the mid 1800s. The group presented rare pelegongan repertoire, suitably composed by Kuta composer I Wayan Lotring, as well as accompanied Legong Kuntul and King Dalem masked dance.
2008 – Pelegongan group invited to play at the opening night of the second Bali Film Festival. The group performed rare repertoire.
2008 – Gender wayang group invited to perform at the first world music festival in China, as part of Shanghai Expo 2010. This unique performance opportunity encouraged more of our musicians to learn more rare repertoire from Teges Kanginan Village in Peliatan, Ubud. Preserved and conserved seven rare pieces from this ancient repertoire.
2009 – Semar pegulingan group invited to perform at A Tapestry of Sacred Music festival at the Esplanade in Singapore. The group will present five performances of rare seven-tone semar pegulingan repertoire (from Banjar Pagan Kelod, Denpasar, Kamasan, Klungkung and Gianyar) and pelegongan repertoire (from Teges Kanginan, Ubud and Banjar Tegal, Kuta). Vaughan Hatch presented a talk and demonstration about this rare music and the ensembles during the festival.
2009 - Vaughan Hatch gave a presentation about preservation of pelegongan, bebarongan and semar pegulingan in South Bali at the Conference for North Balinese Culture in Buleleng in July. Our semar pegulingan gave a demonstration and performance as part of this conference.
2009 - Semar pegulingan and pelegongan groups performed Pendet, Gabor, Legong Kuntul, Legong Condong and Legong Jobog at the opening and closing of the 5th annual HACGAM (international coastguard meeting) at the Kartika Discovery Hotel, Kuta.
2009 - Opened prestigious Maha Bandana Prasadha event in Denpasar with a performance of rare Denpasar style semar pegulingan music. For this event, we reconstructed an extinct piece of music from a recording from 1928. We also accompanied two different dances to commemorate the Puputan War.
2009 - Court music recital at The Mansion, Ubud. Our semar pegulingan troupe performed Kamasan and Pagan Kelod style pieces, including 20-minute long Blandongan.
2010 (June 25)- Pelegongan performance at the 2010 Bali Arts Festival. Dedicating our performance to three of our deceased guru, we showcased three rare instrumental pieces by I Wayan Lotring and one reconstructed dance piece with original Kuta-style interlocking patterns: Legong Jobog.