DEWA KETUT ALIT ADYANA

MUSICIAN

Dewa Tejur is an internationally esteemed performer and teacher of Balinese instrumental music. He is the director of Gamelan Cahaya Asri at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, where he also directs the Lawrence Academy of Music’s Community Gamelan. Before coming to Lawrence, he was the Guest Music Director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya in Berkeley, CA, and Artist-in-Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in 1978, Dewa graduated from the Conservatory of Indonesian Musical Arts (SMKI) in 1999, though is primarily trained in the local performing arts of his home village of Pengosekan, Bali. He is a founding member of Gamelan Çudamani, one of the premiere gamelantroupes from Bali, and has toured multiple times with Çudamani to the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy, and Greece. Dedicated to the continuation of traditional Balinese music education, Dewa has been one of the core teachers of Çudamani’s educational programs for children in Pengosekan. He has played a critical part in supporting the development of the Çudamani Girls’ Gamelan, one of the only ensembles of its kind to offer young girls in Bali the opportunity to learn gamelan music, and founded a young boys’ gamelan ensemble at Çudamani in 2006. Dewa has taught at the Çudamani Summer Institute for Music and Dance in Bali, and has had private students from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and the U.K. since 2000. Dewa is sought after for his clear and systematic teaching methods. Since 1998, he has been invited to teach gong kebyar, angklung, and gamelan semarandana repertoire to men’s, women’s, and children’s gamelans across southern Bali in preparation for their performances at temple ceremonies and festival competitions.