Events

UWaterloo Balinese Gamelan and Grebel Community Gamelan 

   with Balinese Artist-in-Residence I Dewa Made Suparta  

On the island of Bali, Indonesia there is a plethora of musical ensembles called gamelan, the local term for a set of instruments made primarily of bronze or bamboo. The UWaterloo Department of Music at Conrad Grebel University College is home to a gamelan semara dana consisting of bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, and bamboo flutes. 

Reaching out: a unique exploration of cross-cultural and inter-cultural community song.  The University choir will sing works from within our own community, originating in Estonia, Iran, Senegal, New Zealand, and Bali. Join us for a unique choral experience.

 

Enjoy a break from winter, with delightful jazz classics.  Reception to follow.  Suitable for all ages.

See a video from the last concert:

Chiaroscuro: Contrasts in Light and Dark.  The University of Waterloo Chamber Choir sings music spanning five centuries, by composers R. Murray Schafer, James MacMillan, Joaquin des Prez, Carlo Gesualdo, Dolly Parton and others! 

Enjoy a wide selection of classical music, from 6 different chamber groups. Includes one brass group as well.  Bach, Bruch, and Weber are among the composers that will be featured.

Joint Honours, Music and Fine Arts student, Caroline Bordignon will perform her final graduation recital for Music 428. She will be featuring the work of Beethoven, Ravel, Messiaen, and Bordignon. All welcome.

Reception to follow.

Joint Honours Music and Recreation and Leisure Studies student, Emily Spina (mezzo soprano), will perform her final grad recital for Music 428. Come hear her lovely singing from composers Mozart, Strauss, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saens, Copland and others.

Reception to follow.

Music and Business student, Laura Janzen (soprano), will perform her final grad recital for Music 428. Come hear some lovely singing; songs by Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert, Fauré, Copland, Barber, and more.

Reception to follow.

On the island of Bali, Indonesia the idea of community and the spirit of interaction are highly valued and extend to music-making. Being an aural/oral tradition, repertoire—from ritual pieces to modern compositions, instrumental or dance—is learned through imitation and repetition, by listening and watching (i.e., without the use of notation). Students experience this communal process of creating a unified sound on a gamelan semara dana (one of several types of gamelan found in Bali) consisting of gongs, metallophones, drums, and flutes.