GAMELAN SON OF LION INCORPORATED

Gamelan Son of Lion is a chamber ensemble organized around the instrumentation of the Javanese gamelan orchestra. Gamelan Son of Lion's mission is to promote public interest in and exposure to the instruments of the Indonesian gamelan and the various musics which are played using them, to encourage the composition of new American gamelan music by commissioning, performing and recording such works and making them the focal point of the ensemble's repertoire, and to explore artistic collaboration by presenting both new and traditional productions with theatre groups, dance companies, shadow puppet performers and other artists.