PRESS RELEASE
Rohan De Silva to join CMSC’s Board of Advisors
The Chamber Music Society of Colombo (CMSC) is pleased to announce that Rohan De Silva, luminary of the international concert stage, has joined its Honorary Board of Advisors. Sri Lankan-born De Silva belongs to a select group of elite musicians managed by the International Music Group, better known as IMG, whose portfolio includes famous artistes such as Itzhak Perlman (violin), Evgeny Kissin (piano) and James Galway (flute).
De Silva said he “would be delighted to join the Board, to help in furthering great music in our badly bruised country.” He believes the arts community can play a vital role in the healing process, and indicated that he fully supported the progressive mandate of the CMSC. The CMSC’s mission is firstly, to promote music education that would help build discerning classical music audiences in Sri Lanka, and secondly, to encourage new music, by commissioning new works from living composers – especially music written by Sri Lankan composers, or music that embodies Sri Lankan themes.
The CMSC’s Artistic Director Lakshman Joseph de Saram said the Society was indeed privileged to have De Silva lend his name to the Society, with his formidable influence in the classical music world.
Rohan De Silva’s partnerships with violin virtuosos Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Joshua Bell, Benny Kim, Kyoko Takezawa, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Julian Rachlin have led to highly acclaimed performances at recital venues all over the world. With these and other artists he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and La Scala in Milan and in Tel-Aviv, Israel. His festival appearances include the Aspen, Interlochen, Manchester, Ravinia and Schleswig-Holstein festivals, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and the Wellington Arts Festival in New Zealand.
De Silva and Perlman performed at the State Dinner for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, hosted by former US President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush at the White House.
The CMSC’s Honorary Board of Advisors that De Silva joins, comprises Richard Bratby – Ensembles Manager, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dijen de Saram – Co Managing Partner, D.L. & F. De Saram, Malik J. Fernando – Director Operations, MJF Group, Stephen Gaghan -Writer-Filmmaker, Si-Jing Huang – First Violin, Boston Symphony Orchestra (The Mary B. Saltonstall Chair), Daniel Matsukawa – Principal Bassoon, The Philadelphia Orchestra (The Richard M. Klein Chair), Mohan Tissanayagam – Managing Director, ID Lanka Ltd. And Chairman of Premium Brands, Piyasara Shilpadipathi -Master Percussionist and Arunthathy Sri Ranganathan – Carnatic vocalist and musicologist.
November 3rd, 2009 | Announcements