JAKARTA - Indonesian National Orchestra (INO) as an ensemble that combines Nusantara's musical wealth will make a big journey through a series of shows in Europe during June to July.
INO will appear at Europe's most prestigious jazz hall concert, BIMHUIS in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 20.
Furthermore, the ensemble, which was formed in 2010, will appear in a unique music festival by raising the issue of sustainability in Crato, Portugal on June 23. Then continued with a performance at a cultural museum that showed the wealth and splendor of the Asian nation in Casa Asia, Lisbon on June 28.
It doesn't stop there, INO will return to the Netherlands for another show. They were lined up to appear at one of Amsterdam's oldest world music festivals called the Amsterdam Roots Festival on July 6.
The four shows above are proof of INO's consistency in continuing to show the world the wealth of Indonesian music, especially the West, which has known gamelan since the early 19th century, when the Governor-General of England, Thomas Stamford Raffles took him from Java to London.
At that time, gamelan was the only traditional Asian orchestral music that could be learned in the Western world for those pursuing the field of ethnomusicology.
INO has also become a handful of Indonesian professional ethnic or world music groups that have penetrated the international market since the world music giant festival such as World's of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) which was initiated by Peter Gabriel in 1980 or Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX) which is held annually by Piranha in Europe since 1994.
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On its way, INO, which brought 35 traditional Indonesian musical instruments, managed to penetrate the international music market from Australia and Asia since 2011.
After summarizing itself as an ensemble of only 12 players in 2016, INO concert activities in the international world expanded to Europe, which is the center of the global music industry.
In 2022, INO managed to penetrate the spaces for European classic music performances such as Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. Through a prestigious concert entitled World Classical Music Series, they were introduced as representatives of the classical music of the archipelago.
Two years later, they appeared at the Amare Theater in The Hague, the Netherlands. All INO appearances, since they were first in Australia, have always received a lively audience welcome.
With the ability to penetrate the global music market, especially for the world music region, INO proves that the power of Indonesian music does not only apply to academic consumption within universities but also to the world's very competitive music market.
INO believes itself to be a representative product of Indonesian music that can be sold and competes with other countries' music products as a commodity of the creative industry.
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