RE:SOUNDING
– Performance with Bagus Mazasupa

Born in Malang, Indonesia and has began to composer songs in 1994. He then played with the band Margosujono with his middle school teacher, and began to seriously learn keyboard instruments from Joko. He was then introduced to the piano by Soepardi, his history teacher in high school. In 1996, he moved to Togyakarta and continued to pursue music studies at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, under the tutelage of Erita Sitorus, Josias Adriaan and Bambang Riyadi, and pianists from the Netherlands, Hellena MS, Martin VB and Anna Jaquin, and composer Charlos Michans who were brought to the institute by Karta Pustaka.  In 2006, he joined Sirkus Barock – a group founded by Sawung Jabo in 1976- and was involved in the production and performance of four albums. Mazasupa then formed the instrumental band ‘Bulan Jingga’ in 2013 and released two albums for them, Melukis Sunyi and Rahasia Waktu.’ Selected as the Music Director at Saturday Acting Club (SAC), a theatre company founded in 2008, he is also a skilled sound designer for stage. Since 2017, Mazasupa has run a lecture recital-based touring concert series entitled ‘musikono’ as a means of hospitality and building pleasant sharing spaces between musical works, musicians and audiences by travelling from village to village.

Born and raised in Canberra, Adam Cooper-Stanbury started playing drum kit at the age of 10.Switching to percussion in 14, Adam finished a high school studies in Canberra before moving to Sydney to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Daryl Pratt and Shaun Trubiano. He is currently studying a Masters degree at the Sydney Conservatorium with Shaun Trubiano (principle percussion, Opera Australia Orchestra). In 2019, Adam was the Percussion Fellow with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Adam has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and has performed extensively with the Australian Youth Orchestra. Adam has also played in lessons and masterclasses for some of the top orchestral percussionists in the world including musicians from the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Paris Opera, Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles.

Salina is a NSW based percussionist and writer. She is currently in her final year of a Bachelor of Music Performance in Percussion at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has engaged in various orchestral programs outside of the conservatorium such as Sydney Youth Orchestras and Australian Youth Orchestra. She has also been a contributor to Cut Common magazine for casual review work and enjoys writing in her spare time.

Hamish Upton is a percussionist who thrives on collaborating with chamber musicians. He is a percussionist in the BOLT ensemble, and has performed as an Argonaut at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, with Elision Ensemble, Speak Percussion and Ensemble Offspring. In February 2018, Hamish launched Ossicle Duo with Benjamin Anderson (Bass Trombone). Ossicle Duo are 2020 Local Heroes at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and won the contemporary masters prize for their performance of Mauricio Kagel’s L’art Bruit in 2019. Hamish is a member of Ad Lib Collective, working with fellow musicians on collaborative projects including educational outreach programs, and performances.