4 June 2026 – Gamelan Summer Concert @ Campbell House

29 April 2025 – Adrian Stark’s ‘Pananggalan’ at Plug 4

13 April 2024 – Gamelan Cabe Rawit – Inaugural Concert

22 June 2023 – Summer Gamelan at Gartnavel

2021 – Floating Gold – Maskumambang @ ICLC 2021

17 July 2020 – Golden Dragons Go Online

During lockdown Naga Mas wanted to find a way to play together in real time so we learned the basics of coding in mini tidal and used samples of the Glasgow gamelan instruments to create a way to play together. Part of the network music festival https://networkmusicfestival.org/.

12 December 2019 – Flowers and Dragons – Music for the Javanese Gamelan

A concert celebrating the work of our visiting artist Prasadiyanto, bringing together the musicians of Naga Mas with students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

22 June 2019 – West End Festival

9 December 2018 – Prasadiyanto – Master Musician

Gamelan Naga Mas were delighted to welcome back Prasadiyanto, master musician from Solo, Indonesia. For the second year running Pak Prasad was supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia to be resident in Glasgow for two months, working with both members of Naga Mas and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This celebratory concert presented the outcome of the project, including a rare opportunity in Scotland to hear a full-length traditional Javanese gendhing. Pearce Institute.

27 September 27 2018 – Gamelan and Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

9 June 2018 – West End Festival

18 June 2017 – West End Festival

14 June 14 2017 – An Evening of Gamelan Music with Prasadiyanto

May 20, 2017 – Experience Indonesia

4 June 2016 – Experience Indonesia

Performance at the invitation of the Strathclyde Indonesian Society.

9 September 2015 – Gamelan Untethered @ Discover Indonesia, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The second performance of Gamelan Untethered, a futuristic fusion of gamelan, western instruments, voice and visuals built around the theme of our relationship to and understanding of the cosmos.

28 August 2014 – Gamelan Untethered

A Musical Exploration of the Cosmos, Campbell House, Gartnaval Royal Hospital. Sun Ra’s Spaceways meets six new compositions for Javanese gamelan, synthesisers, piano, vocals & video.

2 August 2014 – Merchant City Festival

Summer concert at Mono

29 June 2014 – West End Festival, Botanic Gardens

Family workshop and concert

14 December 2013 – Mono Glasgow

New and traditional music for gamelan, with guest artist Rob Campion from London.

26 June 2011 – West End Festival

This West End Festival performance featured new music works written for the ensemble alongside a selection of favourite pieces from Java and Bali. Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, Glasgow

20 March 2010 – Saturday Teatime Performance

A Saturday performance at the beautiful Limelight Space at Trongate with a programme of new and traditional music, with the added flavour of Scottish small and great highland bagpipes featuring soloist Barnaby Brown. Limelight (Sounds of Progress), 73 – 77 Trongate, Glasgow

26 September 2009 – New Music with Highland Pipes

A showcase for the group’s work combining Balinese and Javanese music with Scottish Highland piping music traditions. The Rutherglen Town Hall presented a concert of innovative pieces composed and cocomposed by group members, Margaret Smith, Katherine Waumsley, J. Simon van der Walt, Jon Keliehor, including the extraordinary piping music of Barnaby Brown

31 August 2008 – Scottish Bali & Iron Pipes at the Edinburgh Mela

Gamelan Naga Mas presented their Scottish Bali & Iron Pipes programme at the Edinburgh Mela Festival, a blend of Javanese and Balinese works with an added flavour of Scottish small and great highland bagpipes, featuring soloist Barnaby Brown. New works by Jon Keliehor, Margaret Smith and J Simon van der Walt. Musical Director Signy Jacobsdottir.

5 July 2008 – Netherton Family Day

Gamelan Naga Mas was invited to perform at the Netherton Family Day. A large number of children from ages 4 and above took part in the afternoon workshop.

22 June 2008 – West End Festival

Indonesian Gamelan music and Gaelic Piping traditions met in this unusual midsummer concert. The highly spirited Gamelan Naga Mas performed music from Java and Bali, opening the door to new collaborative works with guest piper Barnaby Brown, featuring new and original compositions by gamelan members. Naga Mas gave a free workshop and family concert in the afternoon. Kibble Palace, Botanical Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

31 May 2008 – Scottish Bali & Iron Pipes

Gamelan Naga Mas performed Scottish Bali & Iron Pipes, a concert of contemporary and traditional Indonesian music at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. The group presented a collection of outstanding original compositions written by the members of the ensemble, including a new collaboration for bagpipes and gamelan featuring guest piper Barnaby Brown. Part of the Music Trains 2008 festival. Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Scotland, UK.

1 March 2008 – East West Project

A day of Indonesian music performance and workshops on the instruments of the gamelan orchestra. This was part of the East West Project bringing the Indonesian Gamelan to the East End of the Glasgow city. This event featured a gamelan workshop for young people and adults, a gamelan tree workshop for children with parents with storytelling, and a free performance by the Gamelan Naga Mas featuring traditional gamelan music of Java and Bali and new music by Scottish composers. Platform, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow G34 9JW.

9 October 2007 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK

Gamelan Naga Mas was invited by the South Bank Centre in London to perform for the official reopening of the Royal Festival Hall by Queen Elizabeth II.

23 June 2007 – Botanical Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This was part of the East West Project bringing the Indonesian Gamelan to the West End of the Glasgow city. This event featured a family concert, Balinese story told by Margaret Smith with live Gamelan accompaniment, and a hands-on children workshop. The second concert featured new compositions influenced by Balinese, Javanese and Western music traditions.

9 June 2007 – Royal Festival Hall

Gamelan Naga Mas were invited to perform at the South Bank Centre Overture celebration which welcomed back the Royal Festival Hall after two years of restoration and redevelopment. Our programme combined traditional and new music inspired by Javanese, Balinese and Jazz musical traditions.

10 March 2007 – Calanorang and the Cailleach

Gamelan Naga Mas took up residence at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for a golden day of Indonesian music with a Glasgow twist. A free family performance in the Centre’s Storytelling Court at 2pm provided a tantalising taster, while a hands-on family workshop at 3pm was a great way for everyone to explore the sights and sounds of the gamelan and have a go. An enchanting evening of spine-tingling music, dance and tales from Bali, Java and Scotland followed at 7pm performed by the Gamelan Naga Mas, and National Museums of Scotland’s storyteller in residence, Marion Kenny. Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

10 February 2007 – Children’s Classic Concert – Ceilidhs to Carnival

Gamelan Naga Mas performed with puppeteer Malcolm Knight to an audience of 2000 in an all-action gala display of musical traditions from all around the world. Other bands on the day were the Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble, Treacherous Orchestra, Dhol Infusion, Rapido Mariachi, Carnival Samba and Dance Factory. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

22 September 2006 – Gamelan Naga Mas in Concert at Hexham Abbey

Gamelan Naga Mas presented a programme of Balinese, Javanese and contemporary music for the Hexham Abbey Festival. Special guest KimHo Ip on Chinese dulcimer, Yang Qin.

27 August 2006 – Hidden Gardens, Tramway

17 June 2006 – West End Festival

A summer of outdoor gamelan concerts featuring traditional and new music compositions by members of Naga Mas.

11 September 2005 – Outdoor performance at the The Hidden Gardens, Tramway

17 & 18 June 2005 – Float Sound Objects

Contemporary dance theatre featuring choreography of Rosina Bonsu, Dereck McLuckie, and Aviva Kartiningsih, with new music compositions by Jon Keliehor, Simon van der Walt, Katherine Waumsley, Ana Himsworth and Doug Haire. Performed at Glasgow University G12 Theatre as part of the West End Festival.

11 June 2004 – Smaradahana

Performed at the Cottiers Theatre as part of the West End Festival with Eka Damayanti, Aviva Kartningsih Cohen and Matthew Issac Cohen.

14 February 2004 – Smaradahana

The production Smaradahana toured to Haddenham, Cambridgeshire with workshops at two local primary schools, a theatre performance and residential workshops in music, dance and shadow puppets with puppeteer Matthew Isaac Cohen and Indonesian performers Eka Damayanti and Aviva Kartiningsih Cohen. Directed by Matthew Cohen.

20 June 2003 – Ketoprak

Costume drama from Java, featuring Javanese Artist, Sunarno Purwolelono, West End Festival, Kibble Palace, Glasgow.

9 February 2003 – Topeng Mask Dances

Featuring mask dances from Bali and Java by Balinese Artist, I Nyoman Wenten, performed at Cottier Theatre

5 November 2002 – Karetao Puppet Aotearoa with Joko Susilo

Inspiration Festival, Gilmorehill G12 Theatre, Glasgow.

27 October 2002 – Sendratari Wayang

With Joko Susilo and Matthew Issac Cohen. Dussera, Diwali Festival, Woodside Hall, Glasgow.

26 October 2002 – Sendratari Wayang

The production toured Edinburgh and Glasgow as a performance of music, dance and shadow puppets with Indonesian performers Joko Susilo, Aviva Kartiningsih Cohen, and Pudjiastuti Jansen. Directed by Joko Susilo and Matthew Isaac Cohen.

18-19 June 2002 – Wayang Cuchulain

Contemporary shadow puppet and theatre performance (Wayang Kulit) featuring puppeteers Joko Susilo and Matthew Issac Cohen. West End Festival Gilmorehill G12 Centre, 18-19

12 June 2002 – Ramayana

Wayang Kulit, with Joko Susilo and Matthew Issac Cohen, Tramway.

6 April 2002 – Ramayana: The Fall of Alengka

A short Ramayana shadow puppet play for children, performed by Joko Susilo with Gamelan Naga Mas Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre, Glasgow.

5 & 6 April 2002 – Wayang Scotlandia

The production Wayang Skotlandia performed in April 2002 at The Arches in Glasgow featuring Puppeteers – Joko Susilo and Matthew Isaac Cohen.

26 March 2002 – Ramayana

Contemporary Indonesian shadow puppetry presented by Joko Susilo and Matthew Isaac Cohen with Gamelan Naga Mas. Part of the Puppet and Animation Festival, G12 University of Glasgow.

29 May 2000 – BBC Live at the Royal Concert Hall Foyer, Glasgow.

3 June 2000. – Concert at the operning of the Tramway, Glasgow.

23 June 2000 – Concert at the West End Festival, Kibble Palace, Glasgow.

4 February 1999 – Concert at the James Arnott Theatre, University of Glasgow. Sophie Pragnell director, tutor.

6 February 1999 – Concert at the Howden Park Centre, Livingston.

28 August 1997 – Concert at the Gallery Of Modern Art, Glasgow.

9 July 1997 – Recording with Skoosh Scottish Television. Gamelan Episode 4 Maracas. Stirling Bridge.

14 & 25 June 1997 – Concert at the West End Festival, Kibble Palace, Glasgow.

1 September 1996 – Concert at the Edinburgh Mela

21 June 1996 – Concert at the Fete de la Musique, French Institute, Edinburgh.

14 & 19 June 1996 – Concert at the West End Festival, Kibble Palace, Glasgow.

12 November 1995 – Concert at the St Mungo Museum, Glasgow.

17 June 1995 – Concert at the Fete de la Musique, French Institute, Edinburgh.

May – June 1995 – Concert at the Amnesty International, Haddington Festival.

21 May 1995 – Concert at the Dhanakosa Buddhist Retreat Centre, Loch Voil, Balquiddher.

6 June 1994 – Concert at the Fete de la Musique, French Institute, Edinburgh.

26 March 1994 – Concert at the Perth Art Gallery and Museum.

13 November 1993 – Concert at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.

13 November 1993 – Concert as The Gay Melons, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

22-27 June 1993 – Glastonbury Festival, Healing Field.

1991 – Arrival

Strathclyde Regional Council brings instruments to Glasgow from Indonesia. The Glasgow Gamelan Group is formed.