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Round 3 (2001-2002) Award Recipients

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Round 5 (2004-2005)

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Read more about Cambodian pin peat ensembles:

Links to websites about the musical traditions and instruments of Southeast Asia

"Khmer Music" by Dr. Sam-Ang Sam

"Cambodian Dance and Music in America" by Chang Molly Sam and Dr. Sam-Ang Sam

Dance, the Spirit of Cambodia: A website devoted to a project of the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phonm Penh, a tour of classical and folk dance and music from Cambodia to the US in the fall of 2001

In Cambodian culture, a complicated and classical form of music named pin peat accompanies classical dance, masked dance, shadow plays, and Buddhist ceremonies. In the aftermath of the war that engulfed Cambodia in the 1970s, these arts have become key elements in helping survivors to find beauty and identity and to cope with their struggles, especially in this country. Ho Chhim Chan, who began his musical career playing the kong thom (gong) in his village in Cambodia, is the only master of the sralai, a quadruple-reed oboe, living in California, and he is an expert on several other instruments essential to pin peat. Sokheartha Chimm has shown exceptional interest and talent in learning to play roneat. Working together they can continue to play pin peat to accompany classical Cambodian dance and other performance arts essential to the Cambodian communities of California.

	Sokheartha practices on the roneart ek, a form of xylophone that he ordered from Thailand.
	Sokheartha shows the underside of the keys of the roneart ek.
	The underside of a brass gong of the large gong circle
	The pin peat ensemble practicing at home

 

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