Peni Candra Rini's Jiwa Kala, with Shahzad Ismaily and Andy McGraw Presented by World Music Institute

Peni Candra Rini, PhD, is a renowned Javanese singer, educator, and composer, known for blending Javanese Sufi poetry with contemporary music for both Indonesian and Western instruments. The Kronos Quartet calls her "one of the world’s greatest singers." A master of traditional forms like gamelan, she stands out as one of Indonesia’s innovative young composers and one of its few female composers. In 2023, she became the first woman commissioned to compose for the Mangkunegaran court of Central J