Sinta Wullur Explained

Sinta Wullur
Birth Date:1958 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Nationality: Indonesia
Netherlands
Alma Mater:Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Notable Works:Sita's Liberation (opera)
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Genre:classical music
Years Active: 1980th – present
Associated Acts:ensembles Irama, Multifoon, Tirta, Widosari

Sinta Wullur (born 16 November 1958) is an Indonesian-Dutch gamelan musician, pianist, singer, and classical composer.

Biography

Sinta Wullur was born in Bandung, Indonesia, and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1968. Wullur studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Willem Brons and received a degree in piano. She also studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at the same conservatory, and continued her studies in 1988 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with the composers Theo Loevendie and Louis Andriessen. She studied electronic music with Gilius van Bergeijk and Jan Boerman, and gamelan and singing with several teachers in Bali and Java. She received her degree in composition in 1991.

Wullur founded several gamelan groups in the Netherlands, including Tirta and Irama, and since 1992 has worked with the gamelan ensemble Widosari as a Javanese singer. She uses chromatically tuned gamelan instruments in her compositions and with her own gamelan ensemble Multifoon.[1] Wullur has issued recordings on CD, including most recently Gong and Strings.[2]

Works

Wullur integrates Eastern and Western music in her compositions. Selected works include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sinta Wullur:Composer. 1 October 2010.
  2. Book: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik: NZ.: Volume 162. Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). 2001. 11 November 2010.
  3. Web site: Liberating The Ramayana - Sinta Wullur's new gamelan opera brings a fresh approach to the genre. 25 March 2008. 1 October 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723132523/http://www.futureasia.net/malaysiancomposers/focus/focus8_Wullur.htm. 23 July 2011.