TRIGINTA Percussion Trio

Triginta Percussion Trio's latest arrangement had its debut hardly more than half a year ago, in April 2007, yet they are already beyond appearances on renowned venues and festivals of Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest or Valley of Arts Festival in Kapolcs, Hungary.
The unique style of Triginta Percussion lies in the way its members connect the instinctive invention to their academic and scholarship studies during which they have been focusing mainly on the distinctive percussion cultures of South East Asia. Their choice of instruments and their playing technique is fundamentally inspired by their musical experiences obtained in Far Eastern percussion regions. Thus their sound also feeds on traditional music of South India and Indonesia – sometimes handling them through the intellectual legacy of Steve Reich and John Cage. All this is applied in their unique own style which can be recognized easily in the course of their playing – in this sense Triginta Percussion observes the tradition of European contemporary ensemble playing.
Their repertoire consists of own inventions as well as traditional improvisations of South Indian percussions (so called carnatic dialect), or the introducing of the gamelan music originated from the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. Triginta is actively searching the contact between percussion rhythms and musical harmony, though for all this they are ambitioning to show a flash of a new dimension which feeds on musical aesthetics from outside Europe. Still, playing these non-European instruments by young European artists is a typical contemporary and European phenomenon. Of course, Triginta’s sometimes deeply complex or even contemplative compositions do not lack the joyful and vital virtuosity of the instrumental improvisations either.
Triginta Percussion members are strictly following the traditions of their personal musical leaders – below they are acknowledging their gratitude to their gurus and leaders, namely:
Trichy Sankaran (mridangam player, founding professor of Ethnomusicological Studies at York Universtiy, Toronto, Canada)
Selvaganesh Vinayakram (kanjira player, member of Remember Shakti Group)
Zoltán Rácz (artistic leader of Amadinda Percussion Group, percussion faculty leader at Franz Liszt Music Academy, Budapest, Hungary)
Mamat Rahmat (kendang player, teacher of music at the Academy of the Arts of Indonesia, Bandung)
Lady Irawati Durban Ardjo (choraographer, music dance and fine arts teacher at the Academy of the Arts of Indonesia, Bandung)