The Global Cello

The Global Cello Concert/Recital series by Jon Silpayamanant featuring the cello and diverse cello works, in global music contexts, in the Kentuckiana region and beyond.

Also resources for global string tradition and repertoire. What if Johann Sebastian Bach, rather than his brother, Johann Jacob Bach, had lived in the Ottoman Empire? What would the Cello Suites have sounded like had Bach written them in Classical Ottoman style? Come hear a speculative aural journey into the Ottoman Fasıl and find the similarities between Baroque Suites as movements from the respe

ctive cultures are played back to back highlighting the dance origins of the two cultures' multi-movement musical forms. We're in an era where understanding between cultures is needed, and one way to do that is through music. What better way than by celebrating through musical masterpieces from both the West and the Near East?

05/28/2026

Homrong Isaan is in three parts. The first is influenced by Luk Thung and Luk Krung, two styles of Thai popular music that I grew up listening to here in the states. The second part is the “Thai Classical Music Section” with the marimba mimicking the Thai Ranad Ek, the Oboe modeling the quadrupl...

05/25/2026
05/20/2026

So it's officially public. The IUS Arts Institute, which I've been teaching cello lessons (k-12 and non IUS enrolled adult students) will close shop as of the end of this month.

This follows on IUS phasing out a number of programs and reducing/consolidating their schools from a 6-school model to a 3-college model.

IUS Arts Institute News: https://southeast.iu.edu/arts-institute/index.html

IUS 3-College model news: https://news.iu.edu/southeast/live/news/50388-indiana-university-southeast-announces-new

IUS Phasing out programs news: https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-07-02/ius-to-phase-out-or-merge-19-programs-to-comply-with-new-state-law

Indiana Public Universities program elimination news: https://www.wfyi.org/education/2026-04-01/indiana-eliminates-or-merges-about-580-degree-programs-across-public-universities

05/16/2026
Swaranggå (Song of the Heart) for Cello and Gamelan composed by I M Harjito in January 25, 2026
05/14/2026

Swaranggå (Song of the Heart) for Cello and Gamelan composed by I M Harjito in January 25, 2026

The Wesleyan Gamelan EnsembleUnder the direction of I.M. Harjito and Ethan Schwartz presentsGamelan Music of Central Java, featuring guest singer Heni Savitr...

05/11/2026

Meena and her sitar and our newest member, Rachel, with Jon's kamancheh after our rehearsal on Mother's Day!

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