The Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts first year students rehearsing for their public performances. The Javanese gamelan instrument set was a gift to SFU after the Indonesian government brought the set of instruments to be used in the Indonesian Pavilion during the cultural performances at Expo’86.
2016 is the 30th anniversary of the gamelan being part of the SFU educational music program. The class is open to students from many areas of study and some of these students did not practice any musical instrument before beginning to play Javanese style gamelan in January of 2016.
These first year students have not participated in gamelan playing before this class. They all worked very hard to reach a performance level in April. Congratulations to all the students.