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| Sunday, 10 July 2005 |
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An English Serenade by Mahes Perera
Two years ago the young remarkable baritone Dhilan Gnanadurai, won a scholarship for a four-year Bachelor of Music degree course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London). He is now in the second year of his training, studying under one of the world's most distinguished singing teachers, Rudolf Piernay. Dhilan Gnanadurai will be in Sri Lanka for a recital with his cousin pianist, Caroline Jaya-Ratnam. The concert titled 'An English Serenade' will be held at the Russian Centre Auditorium on Saturday July 16 at 7.15 p.m. The proceeds are in aid of the Elders' Home Project of The Holy Trinity Church, Wellawatte. The programme for the concert will include Handel's Why do the Nations so furiously rage together? from the Messiah, Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams, Chopin's Ballad No 1 in G Minor Op 23 and also works by Faure, Schubert, Debussy, Wagner, Donizetti and Schuman. Dhilan who hopes to pursue a full-time career in opera, and also on the concert stage, in collaboration with the professional pianist-accompanist, Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, just completed a performance at the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis of Michael Tippet's, The Knot Garden, broadcast by BBC Radio 3. Now, also appointed a Choral Scholar at all Saints Church Fulham where he performs frequently, Dhilan has participated in master classes with Meribeth Bunch and Walter Moore and was chosen by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama to participate in the prestigious 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Young Singers Bursary Award and was the only singer to reach the finals of the competition from any of the four conservatoires in London. Caroline Jaya-Ratnam is in particular demand as an accompanist and has appeared on BBC Television and Radio 3 accompanying instrumentalists in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2000 and 2004 competitions. She was also the accompanist in the 2005 International Yfrah Neaman competition in Germany, and on Belgian radio and television as accompanist in the Queen Elizabeth Competition May 2005. Caroline has also performed as a concerto soloist most notably in Saint-Seans' Piano Concerto in G Minor and Mozart's Concerto K 456 which she directed. Caroline's career portfolio has included being a subsidiary piano tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, repetiteur, private piano and violin teacher, organist and choral director at St. Mathews Church near Manchester and St. Mathews Church in Croydon. Her London appearances have included concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and St. Martins-in-the Fields. 'An English Serenade' is sponsored by Concorde Group of Companies and the box plan for this fund raiser is at Titus Stores, Liberty Plaza. Solo drummer in concert Thirteen years ago when Tyronne Silva left his home town in Nattandiya, and joined his father in Berlin he had no idea that he would experience the hectic world of progressive metal music in Germany. As a child he was intrigued and fascinated by the complicated dynamics of western acoustic drumming, and deep down in him there was also this determination to climb the rock ladder.
Here in Sri Lanka on a short holiday Tyronne who is now into solo drumming is keen on playing in schools to help collect funds for tsunami victims. Actually, he is now associated with Anatolian cymbals and is keen on demonstrating his versatility and skill in solo drumming. "I will be featured on Rupavahini and will be playing at a concert in Katunayake on July 9 and also at St. Xaviers' College, Marawila on July 20. My friend Andreas Otto whom I met up with, at a workshop organised by Box of Trix who are distributors of RME drums, kit tools, sticks and Anatolian cymbals, kindly agreed to come out to Sri Lanka to help me in setting up the drum set at the concerts I intend performing," says an enthusiastic Tyronne who is delighted in being in his hometown after a spell. Tyronne Silva who is keen on spreading his knowledge in drumming to youth drummers is presently involved in writing a book in Sinhala on the subject of western drumming with its intricate time signatures. "Last year on December 13 there was a drum festival in Berlin at Wabe for Anatolian Day and I took part. We had seven drummers on stage and it was a mind blowing experience interacting with each other. I was happy to be a part of it all," expressed Tyronne. Now in Berlin Tyronne is with Tangent Plane, playing progressive metal at leading clubs. There's a CD by Tangent Plane and also one by Kamikaze 52 on which Tyronne is featured and also we are told a DVD carrying a live performance with Manni von Bohr, Chief Editor of 'drums and percussion,' Europe. Watch out for the next solo drum performance by Tyronne Silva and be a part of the experience here in Sri Lanka. (MP) Analog legend meets digital revolution by Edward Weerasinghe
The turntable is a symbol of modern music culture and you don't have to be a DJ to notice that. It has been elevated from its original intention as a humble playback device to a musical instrument that is hyped by the music industry in a huge way. Anyone who says that vinyl will never die it is true. There's something special about vinyl. But why do people stick to this antediluvian 19th-century technology when modern tools like CD and DVD DJ players are everywhere in the world? But still it's the known fact that, the turntable is the backbone of any discotheque around the world in the 21st century. Research of the digital vinyl goes way back to many years, where it's used as a digital studio plugging. This year it's released as a stand alone equipment for the DJ industry. Using this high-tech instrument DJS has the touch and feel of the real vinyl, which professional DJ CD players still can't get. Will there be quality music as same as vinyl or CD's? These questions have been at the heart of arguments between vinyl purists and digital audio experts for years. Enterprising software engineers and confident hardware companies have brought forth the best of both worlds with digital vinyl systems that allow DJs to control digital audio files with traditional analog vinyl. The latest in this rapidly growing field is a collaboration between premier Professional Audio equipment manufacturer Rane, vendor of some of the finest scratch DJ mixes, Club mixers available in the world and the high-end DSP coders at Serato, best known for its revolutionary Pitch 'n Time plug-in. Using digital vinyl DJ system is very modern and has many advantages. * Digital track that you have magically becomes vinyl track. * Limitless options for sampling your own music voice-overs. * The vertical view of the waveform is an outstanding tool for any DJ to perfect beat matching and scratching. * Space saving square hardware compared to competitors awkward round hardware. * Relative mode allows conservation of the Digital Vinyl because you can practise the same cut anywhere on the record. * Music management features that helps you to access your music files within seconds. * Tracks will never skip again. * Real time voice recording to add colour to the mix with MCs. * Track management features like cue markers and BPM displaying. DJ Thanujika who has been in the DJ industry for over 7 years, now uses digital vinyl system to entertain people. It's a great achievement to provide music with the high-tech and newly invented DJ equipment. The digital vinyl system makes the every mix perfect. Whether you mix music genes like hip-hop or the house or the commercial pop to Sinhala tunes, it gives you the real DJ feel with the vinyl. Careerwise too, Thanujika plays in the digital world!. He is a part of the banking solutions team at Millennium Information Technologies, one of Sri Lanka's flagship IT companies. In Sri Lanka the availability of vinyl for DJs are none. Importing vinyl is costly and a system like this makes a perfect alternative for the vinyl. The future of music distribution already resides with the loss-less and high quality digital media. Already there are many websites that can download high quality digital music legally for a low price. By using a digital vinyl system DJs can record many songs in the hard disk depending on its capacity. The future of entertaining people with digital vinyl is now in here. This instrument can be fixed to any existing DJ setup, or to a mobile
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It was not going to be an easy task to break into the tough German scene.
And so as Tyronne tells us, he decided to perfect his art, learnt advanced
drumming techniques under Andreas Reiche and Loutz Remziehausen and added
the extras like Brazilian and Afro Cuban drumming. He joined Kamikaze 52,
the popular heavy metal band in Berlin and toured with them for two years
playing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The band was also a familiar
sight at all the summer festivals that were staged. 
