Crossing Borders Series: A Global Showcase
InternationalConcertSeries2024-25
TONIGHT’S PROGRAMME
Thursday,6th March2025
PictureGallery,Founder’sBuilding
featuring The Royal Holloway Korean Percussion Group
The Royal Holloway Gamelan Ensemble
The Royal Holloway Andean Band
Estimatedfinishtime:9 30pm
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Youngnam Nong-ak I [Farmer’s Music from Youngnam Province]
The Royal Holloway Korean Percussion Group
Whispers of Plum Blossom (梅花三弄) fused with Wild Geese Landing on Sandbank (平沙落雁)
Chia-Yin Hung Guqin (Chinese Zither)
Drunken Ecstasy (酒狂)
Chia-Yin Hung (Qin) and Seoyoung Park (Gayageum)
Brocade (锦绣); Ancient Dream (古梦)
Yuting Zhao (guzheng – Chinese zither)
The Moon Represents My Heart (月亮代表我的心) (Korean Zither)
Chia-Yin Hung (Pipa – Chinese lute) and Seoyoung Park (Gayageum – Korean zither)
Farewell Letter (诀别书)
Jiaqi Wang (Guzheng)
Gayageum Sanjo
Seoyoung Park (gayageum)
Youngnam Nong-ak II
The Royal Holloway Korean Percussion Group
INTERVAL
Three Piano Doodles
Improvisations by Shzr Ee Tan (piano)
Daseurim/ Puyuma Lullaby (based on a tune by the Puyuma Indigenous people of Taiwan)
Walking Away
Shzr Ee Tan (piano)
GONJING degung
MAYA SELAS degung
BENDRONG degung
SEKAR MANIS sorog
BENDRONG salendro
KAPIRARAY sorog
GONJING salendro
The Royal Holloway Sudanese Gamelan Ensemble
Alma Pinkillu - Ayllu Qullañan Ia
Panpipes - Cinco siglos + Sikuriada
Moseńos - (Folk tune)
The Royal Holloway Andean Band
TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS
The Royal Holloway Korean Percussion Group
[First Performance]
PhedraLow(smallgong – kwaenggari)
Ha-yunLee(smallgong – kwaenggari)
IzzyCurtis(barreldrum – buk)
BenBlakeborough(changgo)
ClariseChong(changgo)
LillyKurata(changgo)
NiamhSherwood(changgo)
KhushiPathak(changgo)
The Royal Holloway Korean Percussion Group
[Second Performance]
TomHyatt(smallgong – kwaenggari)
KateKiriakidis(smallgong – kwaenggari)
JocelynHails(barreldrum – buk)
BenHall(barreldrum – buk)
EbonyDunn(largegong – jing)
JasmineAkibo-Betts(changgo)
WilliamBishop(changgo)
JacobHalls(changgo)
HaslemStroud(changgo)
TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS
The Royal Holloway Gamelan Ensemble
AmelieAu
RohanBharath
SebClemson
SimonCook
IzzyCurtis
DelilahFerry-Swainson
OliverHicks
AmaliaKravtsova
MarcusLai
HannahLam
VictoriaLee
PhedraLow
ArrenSzabo
The Royal Holloway Andean Band
BenjaminBlakeborough
AoifeSmith
JoiseEdwards
ChristinaFinlay
AbigailJones
HarrietMarsh
RoseannaDiwakar
CocoSoards
DhruvGajjar
PhilipBarth
AlisonHenaoZapata
IzzyCurtis
SimonCook spent 12 years in Indonesia, studying the music of West Java. He has directed Puloganti, the RHUL gamelan ensemble since 2000, and leads Sekar Enggal (www.sekarenggal.co.uk), the UK’s leading ensemble for Sundanese music based atCity University. He runs monthlygigsatBracknellJazz,whereheis the house pianist. Lockdown was an opportunity to learn the chromatic bandoneon,whichhenowplaysinseveral tango ensembles, includingEl Chamuyotango quartet (with violin virtuosoKamila Bydlowska). He also enjoys playing early music on historic brassinstruments.
Shzr Ee Tan is a Reader and ethnomusicologist/performance studies researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as being an active performer with a background in classical piano, jazz, Korean percussion, tango/ Balkan accordion, Chinese and Okinawan lutes (sanxian and sanshin), and the Chinesefiddle(erhu).Venuesinwhichshe hasperformedincludetheSouthBank,O2 Academy, the Victoria and Albert Museum,JapanMatsuriTrafalgarSquare, Rich Mix, the British Museum, the National Maritime Museum, the Truman Brewery and The Arts House (Singapore). Shzr Ee also has experience as a print journalist in Asia, having worked for an extensive period of time as an arts correspondent for The Straits Times in Singapore, and thereafter for international magazines and newspapers on a freelance basis. She continues to contribute columns on music, film and culturetovariousmedia.
Henry Stobart is Professor in Music/Ethnomusicology in the Music Department of Royal Holloway. He is the founder and co-ordinator of the UK Latin American Music Seminar, and was coeditor of the journalEthnomusicology Forum(2019-22). He studied tuba and recorder at Birmingham Conservatoire, performed with a number of baroque ensembles, and taught music in several schools, before completing a PhD (1996) at St John's College, Cambridge focused on the music of a Quechua speaking herding and agricultural community of Northern Potosí, Bolivia. Following a research fellowship at Darwin College Cambridge he was appointed as the first lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway in 1999. Henry was co-founder and active until the early 2000s as a professional performer with the Early/World Music ensemble SIRINU, which gave hundreds of concerts, recorded over 7 CDs, and appeared on many European radio networks following their first Early Music Network tour in 1992. Henry runs the college’s Andean band and is active in promoting Early Musicperformanceinthedepartment.
