Sinta Wullur (born 16 November 1958) is an Indonesian-

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musician, pianist, singer, and classical composer.

Biography

Sinta Wullur was born in

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, and emigrated to the

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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

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with the composers Theo Loevendie and

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. She studied electronic music with Gilius van Bergeijk and Jan Boerman, and gamelan and singing with several teachers in

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and

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. 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. Wullur has issued recordings on CD, including most recently ''Gong and Strings''.

Works

Wullur integrates Eastern and Western music in her compositions. Selected works include: *''Dreams and Fairy Tales'' *''Khayal'', performed on western instruments, structures and ideas from gamelan and Indian music *''Ganatara'', written for the Gamelan group Gending *''Kaleidoscope'', written for the Gamelan group Gending *''10 Bulls'' for gamelan instruments, Western percussion and song. *''Scenes from the Ramayana'' *''Sita Lost'' *''Mendung Indonesian'' *''Ramayana through Flashbacks'', opera, libretto by Paul Goodman *''Sita's Liberation'', gamelan opera for singers, narrator, dancers, wayang kulit, gamelan ensemble, string quartet, bass clarinet and full chorus

References

External links

Multifoon official siteIrama official site
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