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YUDANE Composer
Yudane is a leading talent among the new generation of Balinese composers. He has produced works for concert performance, theatre, sound installations and for film. His score for the 2000 Adelaide Festival production of The Theft of Sita (in collaboration with Paul Gabrowsky) won the Melbourne Age Critics Award for Creative Excellence and the Helpmann Award for Best Original Music Score. Among other honours, he has been the recipient of the annual award for the Best Composition (Kreasi Baru) for Balinese Gamelan on nine separate occasions as well as the 1999 Adikara Nugraha Award for the Creator of New Musical Composition, from the Government of Bali. Click here to see a list of his selected works. In Indonesia, he has participated in "Kemah Komponis" (AKI), "Temu Musik September", Surakarta (1998), and the Bali Millennial Percussion (1999). He has participated in the Wangaratta Jazz Festival in Australia (2001), and in 2002 was Artist-in-Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, supported by a Ford Foundation grant. In Europe, he has worked with the Temps Fort Theatre, France and Cara Bali Group, Munich and has had works commissioned by La Batie Festival. Now resident in Wellington, he is co-director of the Balinese ensemble Gamelan Taniwha Jaya and continues to teach
gamelan at the New Zealand School of Music. He has composed a number of pieces for Gamelan Padhang Moncar. With Gareth
Farr, he composed and performed music for the acclaimed 2007 Capital E production of Spinning Mountain, a retelling of a Balinese story through puppets and music. This received major funding from Creative New Zealand, who
have commissioned Yudane on many occasions, including two recent commissions for the New Zealand Trio. Yudane toured to Indonesia, Singapore and Australia with the NZ Trio in late 2007. Their performance of his collaboration
with Jack Body received the following review in The Australian:
Two recordings of his music have been published in Indonesia: - Laughing Water and Terra-incognata.
AWARDS 1999 Adikara Nugraha Award for the Creator of New Musical Composition, from the Government of Bali. 2001 The Age Critics award for creative excellence (Australia). 2001 Winner of best original music score, Helpmann Awards, Australia 2004 Artist Residency, IMEB, Bourges, France |
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