Sinta Wullur (born 16 November 1958) is an Indonesian-
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gamelan
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musician, pianist, singer, and classical composer.
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, and emigrated to the
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in 1968. Wullur studied music at the
Sweelinck Conservatory
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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
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with the composers
Theo Loevendie
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and
Louis Andriessen
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. She studied electronic music with
Gilius van Bergeijk
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Java
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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