I Wayan Suweca

I Wayan Suweca (born in the 1950s in Kayumas, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia) is a highly respected performer of Balinese gamelan.

In the early 1980s, along with his students Michael Tenzer and Rachel Ann Cooper, he founded and led the famous Sekar Jaya gamelan ensemble in Berkeley, California.

In 1992, he was commissioned by Diffusion Système Minuit du Québec to create a "kreasi baru kontemporer" (contemporary music composition) for gamelan entitled "Cyclus Kahidupan" (The Cycle of Life).

The work was created at galerie Articule and was simultaneously broadcast on CKUT radio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In 2006, he began working on a wayang kulit project and intensely researching traditional Balinese kekawin singing.