NCH Gamelan Orchestra: End of Year Concert

NCH Gamelan Orchestra
Dr. Peter Moran, Director
with special guest 
Byron Wallen (trumpet)

Celebrating 10 years since His Royal Highness the Sultan of Yogyakarta came to Dublin to present the Irish people with the gift of this beautiful collection of Indonesian instruments, the NCH Gamelan Orchestra is proud to commemorate this occasion with the launch of its debut CD.

Performing over two nights, the ensemble presents a programme ranging from classical gamelan repertoire, to popular Javanese folk songs, to contemporary works for gamelan and trumpet. 

Joining them on this very special occasion is the jazz trumpet legend Byron Wallen, who returns to the NCH following his recent Irish tour with his own gamelan-fusion ensemble. 

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The NCH Gamelan Orchestra is an ensemble of bronze gongs, bamboo flutes, plucked strings, and Indonesian percussion instruments and voices. Over the past ten years, they have performed at major festivals in Ireland and Java including the Electric Picnic, Beyond the Pale, the Yogyakarta International Performing Arts Festival, and the International Gamelan Festival . The NCH Gamelan can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and on YouTube, where their videos have been watched over 100,000 times.

Byron Wallen is widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, playing alongside legendary musicians such as George Benson, Chaka Khan, Hugh Masekela, Courtney Pine, Mulatu Astatke, Style Council, and King Sunny Ade. Wallen is an acclaimed writer and producer whose original scores have been commissioned by the Science Museum; PRS, the BBC, Jerwood Foundation, Southbank Centre, National Theatre, Arts Council, FIFA and Sage Gateshead. He has also created soundscapes for Universal Pictures, Warner Bros and Game of Thrones. He has won numerous awards for his music. Today he teaches jazz trumpet and leads a selection of combos at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He is also member of the jazz faculty at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as well as the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. 

Presented by NCH