A four-time recipient of the SIGNIS International Award for
outstanding original score for a feature film and the 2016 Presidential Award for best film
music, is a professional classical musician and film composer. Schooled in Colombo and
New York City, a passionate advocate for chamber music, and a
veteran of over 800 concerts, he is, however, best known
internationally for his original scores for film.
He worked closely with Italian filmmaker/producer Uberto
Pasolini, and his score for "Bel Ami", which he co-wrote with
Academy Award Winner Rachel Portman, was nominated by
critics as one of the 50 best Hollywood soundtracks written over
the last decade, making it onto the world's leading soundtrack
label Varese Saraband's 35th Anniversary Box Set.
He is currently working on original music for several short films
and a period-based mini-series for Netflix.
He is a voting member of PRS for Music, London, an academy member of the British
Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), a board member of the Arts
Council of Sri Lanka, and the founder of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo
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