Paul Gutama Soegijo
Paul Gutama Soegijo (born January 29, 1934 in Yogyakarta ; † January 7, 2019 in Berlin ) was a composer for new music who also made a decisive contribution to the renewal of traditional gamelan music outside of Indonesia since the 1970s .
Life
Soegijo studied music theory and violin at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1958 and composition with Boris Blacher in Berlin from 1965 .
From the late 1960s Soegijo wrote compositions in the style of New Music for u. a. Eberhard Blum and Sumire Yoshihara. He worked u. a. together with Stomu Yamashta and Masanori Fujita. He was also a member of the Neue Musik Berlin group.
In 1973 Soegijo founded the "Banjar Group Berlin", three years later this resulted in "Gamelan Banjar", the first active gamelan in Germany, consisting of European and non-European professional and amateur musicians, who worked together from 1976 to 2014 and performed well at international festivals played.
In his "Music of the New Originality" (Indonesian: Music Leluhur Baru, literally translated: New Ancestral Music) Soegijo expanded and deconstructed the traditional structures of autochthonous musical cultures, especially Indonesian gamelan, through innovative approaches, through the inclusion of instruments from other cultures and through composition techniques of new music.
Soegijo lived as a freelance composer, musician and performer in Berlin from 1970.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Gutama Soegijo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Biography and picture on the Jakarta Berlin Arts Festival website
- Paul Gutama Soegijo at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soegijo, Paul Gutama |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indonesian composer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yogyakarta |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |