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Yogeswaran recognised for uniting cultures by Colvin L. de Silva Yogeswaran a Sri Lankan Tamil musician and teacher is now based in
England. He was born in Ariyalai in Jaffna, and has worked in a variety of
musical, dance and multimedia contexts over a period of He has performed Tamil and carnatic music in devotional and concert settings as a soloist and in such ensembles as the Tamil Classic Band. Steeped in the traditional music of the Tamil Culture, his initial training in music was under the tutelage of Sangeetha Bhoshanam Sri P. Muthukumara Swamy and later under Sangeetha Bhoshanam Sri S. Balasingham. His guru is the well known musician Sri T.V. Gopalalkrishnan of Chennai in South India. He is skilled in carnatic flute, mirdangam and other percussion instruments such as kanjera and morsing. Internationally he has performed as featured vocalist and accompanist for a variety of Bharata Natyam dance performances and with Shobana Jeyasinghe's internationally acclaimed South Asian Dance troupe in works such as duets with automobiles, romance with footnotes and making of maps. Yogeswaran was founder and director of the London based Asian School of Arts. The school specialised in South Indian vocal and instrumental music and has staged a number of students' arangetrams. In 1996 Yogeswaran was appointed visiting lecturer in Indian music at Goldsmith's University in London. He was the first Tamil vocalist ever to sing in a major Hollywood film as part of music director Joecelyn Pook's soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Talented musician Yoga as he is popularly called makes music travel far and wide for transcending boundaries and uniting cultures. He hails from a very distinguished family in Jaffna and is proud to talk about his roots back home in Jaffna. |
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three decades
debuting as a singer in Sri Lanka in 1978.
