Gamelan Genta Kasturi

Gamelan Genta Kasturi is a community Balinese Semaradana Gamelan ensemble. It was founded in the spring of 2003 by Balinese master musician I Ketút Gedé Asnawa and family in partnership with the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Since Mr. Asnawa’s departure for a position at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Center for World Music in the spring of 2006, the group has continued to retain repertoire taught to us by him, perform regularly and create/perform new work within the medium in collaboration with other musicians and choreographers. It maintains an educational emphasis by giving free hand-on workshops, providing opportunity for local to observe the group in studio rehearsal, and developing member talents necessary to tune and care for the varied traditional instruments.