Harin pursues a multi-faceted career as a singer,
choral conductor, designer and educator. He received
degrees from the Northumbria University, Newcastle
and the Royal Schools of Music, London.
He is
currently the choral director of the Colombo
Philharmonic Choir, and Chorus master of the CMSC.
He is also an associate member of the Royal School
of Church Music (UK).
In Summer 2019, he received the prestigious Ellen
Battell-Soeckel Fellowship for choral conducting at
the Yale School of Music to attend masterclasses
with Simon Carrington, Therese Murray, Beat Schaefer,
and David Hill. This enabled him to perform at the
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival 2019, at
Yale.
In New York, he attended masterclasses
and performed with organist and choral conductor,
Kent Tritle.
Harin's seasonal engagements
with the CMSC includes the Sailor in Purcell's Dido
and Aeneas (2018), Baritone soloist in the Faure
Requiem (2019), and performing a selection of
Scottish Songs by Beethoven at the inaugural
Beethoven concert for the Beethoven250 year (2020).
He takes great pride and pleasure in his
outreach choral projects at St. John's
College, Jaffna and Negombo, constantly striving to
raise the standards of choral music in Sri Lanka..
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