Clare Suet Ching Chan is an associate professor of Ethnomusicology at the Music Department of the Faculty of Human Ecology at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Prior to this she taught at the music department of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris from 2002-2022 and held appointments as the deputy dean (research and graduate studies)(2011—2017) and chief editor (2015-2021) of the Malaysian …
Larry Hwang specialises in theoretical research, composition and instrumental performance. He obtained a master’s degree in percussion from the University of Southern California in 1998, and a doctorate in music arts from the National Taipei University of the Arts in 2011. He was under Professor Zhu Zongqing, Professor Guo Guangyuan, and Professor Eric Frist. In …
Ziya Tabassian is a percussionist who specialises in the tombak, an Iranian drum. Based in Canada, he has studied Western percussion with Julien Grégoire and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Interpretation from the Université de Montréal. In a residency at The Banff Centre in the winter of 2003, he explored the contemporary repertoire with Iranian …
Tomas Nilsson is artistically in charge of the SISU percussion ensemble, and has played an important part in SISU since the beginning in 1993. Nilsson regularly contributes in other ensembles, such as Oslo Sinfonietta and Opera Omnia, and has freelanced in several symphonic orchestras in Norway and Sweden. Tomas Nilsson is educated from Østlandets Musikkonservatorium. …
Olivier Tarpaga is a Lester Horton Award-winning dancer-choreographer and musician, a dance lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts, and a music lecturer and the director of the African music ensemble for Princeton University’s Department of Music. Tarpaga is the founder and artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Dafra Drum and Dafra Kura Band …
Born in Ubud, Bali, I Wayan Sudirana is one of Indonesia’s most well-known composers. With an international profile as a performer and educator, he is also one of the most recognized professors at the Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Denpasar. After graduating from the Institute, Wayan Sudirana studied at the University of British Columbia …
Bernard Goh is the founder and Artistic Director of HANDS Percussion. Bernard holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA). He was also a multi-award-winning instructor of a school Brass Band for 6 years and it was there where it all began – his passion for percussion. Bernard then learnt …
Dhol Ambassadors Malaysia Previous Next Dhol Ambassadors is a dhol (double-headed drum) team made up of international award winning dhol players. Having over 15 years of experience in all things dhol, the talented team never fails to amaze audiences and continue to do so today. They travel the globe with the mission to spread the …
Ziya Tabassian Ziya Tabassian is a percussionist who specialises in the tombak, an Iranian drum. Based in Canada, he has studied Western percussion with Julien Grégoire and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Interpretation from the Université de Montréal. In a residency at The Banff Centre in the winter of 2003, he explored the contemporary repertoire …
Souls Impact Previous Next “We ride with our souls; we drum with our heartbeat.” Souls Impact Percussion (SIP) was founded in December 2014 by Cross Chin and Zac Tan. They are a percussion team that performs a combination of body movements using Southeast Asian traditional instruments, an array of Chinese and Western percussion instruments and …
