Lankan producer of Grammy award winning recordings here
View(s):The Sooriya Village will host the first Sri Lankan to engineer and produce multiple Grammy award winning recordings, Kavichandran Alexander from March 5 to April 4.
Kavichandran Alexander (Kavi), has recorded many top international artists including Padmabushan Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhat, V.G. Jog (Guru of Pandit Amaradeva) and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (son of the guru of Pandit Ravi Shankar) and is the first Asian to both produce and record major symphony orchestras, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the Saint Petersburg Symphony and the Hungarian National Philharmonic.
Music recorded by Kavi’s label have been featured in six Hollywood films including Dead Man Walking (Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon), Angel Eyes (Jennifer Lopez), Meet the Fockers (Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand) and the Bon Jovi documentary ‘The Circle’.
Kavi is making it back home after almost 50 years.As his association with music and musicians around the world reflects, Kavi is truly a connoisseur of global classical music.
He will be conducting multiple meet and greet sessions and workshops at the Sooriya Village and in selected cities away from Colombo from March 7 where he will share knowledge, expertise and skills gained from his experiences working with world renowned artists, interspersed with interesting life stories and anecdotes.
Workshops are ticketed at Rs.1500 and meet and greet sessions are free.
For reservations or more information, contact Sooriya Village on 0112552666.