I Wayan Gde Yudane (born 1963 or 1964) is a

gangsa A gangsa is a type of metallophone which is used mainly in Balinese and Javanese Gamelan music in Indonesia. In Balinese gong kebyar styles, there are two types of gangsa typically used: the smaller, higher pitched and the larger . Each instrume ...

player and an exponent of Balinese music in New Zealand. Yudane learnt to play gamelan from his father, an architect and gamelan instrument maker. He attended the Performing Arts School (STSI) in

Denpasar Denpasar (; Balinese script, Balinese: ᬤᬾᬦ᭄ᬧᬲᬃ, ''Dénpasar'') is the capital city of the province of Bali, Indonesia. Denpasar is the largest city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second largest city in Eastern Indonesia after ...

. In 2002, he became the 2002 Artist-in-Residence at

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in New Zealand. His work, ''Entering the Stream'', has been performed and acclaimed internationally. His collaboration with

Paul Grabowsky Paul Atherstone Grabowsky , born 27 September 1958, is an Australian pianist and composer, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra. Biography Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea, Grabowsky is a pianist and composer of music for film, theatre and o ...

, ''The Theft of Sita'', was performed at the 2001

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in New York City and toured Europe and the US. He also collaborated with New Zealand composer

Jack Body John Stanley Body (7 October 1944 – 10 May 2015) was a New Zealand composer, ethnomusicologist, photographer, teacher, and arts producer. As a composer, his work comprised concert music, music theatre, electronic music, music for film and d ...

on ''Paradise Regained'' for piano and pemade (Balinese metallophone). In 2018, he performed at the International Gamelan Festival in Fort Vastenburg in Surakarta, Central Java.

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Crossroads of Denpasar
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''The Listening Room'', 19 April 2003
Personal websiteWayan Gde Yudane at SOUNZ
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Balinese people Indonesian Hindus New Zealand composers Male composers New Zealand Hindus New Zealand people of Indonesian descent Performers of Hindu music Gamelan musicians Musicians from Bali {{NewZealand-musician-stub

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