Trisutji Djuliati Kamal is an Indonesian

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 composer. She was born in Jakarta

Jakarta

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 and grew up in the Sultanate of Langkat in Binjai

Binjai

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, Sumatra

Sumatra

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. She studied piano and composition with Henk Badings

Henk Badings

Henk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...

 at the Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 Conservatory, and continued her studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris

Paris

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 and the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome

Rome

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. After completing her studies, Kamal returned to Indonesia in 1967 and began working as a musician and composer. In 1994 she founded the Trisutji Kamal Ensemble, which performs with two pianos, Indonesian traditional vocals, instrument and dance.

Works

Kamal's compositions include orchestral, chamber, choral, solo piano, opera, ballet, and film music. Her works often incorporate elements of gamelan

Gamelan

A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included....

 music and Islamic culture and combine traditional Indonesian and Western instruments. Selected compositions include:

• From the Spaces of Life, 1969
• Gunung Agung (Mount Agung, 1963–70) ballet suite
• Menara Mesjid Nabawi (The Minaret of the Nabawi Mosque)
• Biarkan musim berganti film soundtrack, 1971
• Prayer of Redemption for orchestra, 2004