Members

Anie Pelletier is the founder of ARCINDA. She graduated as an Engineer from Institute Technology Surabaya, Indonesia, where she received the Student of Honor Award. After pursuing her career in Indonesia for a while, she got a scholarship opportunity to study abroad, where her journey began to an adventure life in USA. She went to University of Denver, received Master of Business Administration degree, with major in Finance RE and Computer Management Information Systems, where she met her husband, Mark. Coming from an artistic and musical background, she wanted to promote Indonesian culture through ARCINDA, where she leads gamelan/dance members, and performs the 'bonang' instrument.

She was crowned as Miss Pikat Jakarta, Indonesia in 1990. She is an artist with a lot of different talents, in music, dance, vocal and arts. She has a very strong vocal, and joins other band group as a singer, beside Arcinda. She loves choreograph and dance. She enjoys dancing with Arcinda. She is busy as a working mom, but she is very enthusiastic about her hobby in music, vocal and dance. Her daughter, Shania, joins Arcinda to learn dance.

She loves choreograph and dance, which is why she decided to dance for Arcinda. She is busy as a career woman while taking care of her family, but she is very enthusiastic about her hobby in music and dance. She also has her daughter, Briana, joined Arcinda to learn music and dance.

Laura DangelMayr was born in Germany. She has a lot of different talents, in music (pianist), dance and martial arts. She enjoys culture from different countries. She learns Martial Arts from White Dragon studio and continue to keep up her martial art skill with Inner Wave Pencak Silat. She dances Javanese dance. She teaches belly dance.

Joey Pelletier was born in 2003, the Pelletiers' son, and joined in 2009. However, he is not the least talented member. He is able to keep up playing at everybody's pace. He plays piano when he is 6 yrs old, and suddenly woke up in the middle of night, wanted to learn gamelan. Teaching him with simple gamelan notation won't challenge him. His piano background helps him to pick up gamelan talent.And now become one of the key melody of the group, following his mom, he is learning bonang, the complicated gamelan instrument.