Gamelan outside Indonesia are two gamelan sets in Wellington, one Javanese and the other Balinese. Interest in gamelan music in New Zealand was reflected in the selection by the Indonesian Embassy in New Zealand of a young New Zealand student, Rupert Snook, as a recipient of the 2012 Darmasiswa Scholarship. The scholarship will allow Snook to study gamelan at the "Institut Seni Indonesia" (Indonesian Arts Institute) in Bali. Since July 2013 there is a complete gamelan gong kebyar set in the Museu de la Música de Barcelona. From an opening workshop given by professor Andrew Channing, the ensemble has had a stable formation
Gamelan outside Indonesia Java and brought to Vancouver in 1990 and resides at the Western Front Artist Center. Both Vancouver-based ensembles are regularly used in performances by the Vancouver Community Gamelan. There are over eighty gamelans (as of 2002) of various kinds in the United Kingdom, many of them based at colleges or community centres. University of York was the first British university to purchase a gamelan, named Kyai Sekar Patak; it is still played by students there. The oldest community Gamelan group in the UK is the Oxford Gamelan Society, which plays Kyai Madu Laras, donated to the University of Oxford's Bate