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

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in New Zealand. Yudane learnt to play gamelan from his father who was an architect and gamelan instrument maker. He attended the Performing Arts School (STSI) in Denpasar. In 2002 he became the 2002 Artist-in-Residence at

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in New Zealand. His work, in particular ''Entering the Stream'', has been performed and acclaimed internationally. His collaboration with Paul Grabowsky, ''The Theft of Sita'', was performed at the 2001 Next Wave Festival in New York City and toured Europe and the US. He also collaborated with New Zealand composer

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on a piece ''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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