The winner of Best Performance All Island at the Sri Lankan Festival for the performing arts, ‘Bhagya Rangakala Institute’ of dancing, music and theatre academy will show their award winning performance at 6 pm on September 12 at YMCA, Katunayake.
The Chief guest for the show will be renowned singer, musician and pianist, Mary Anne David. Choral director, Managing director of Mary Ann School of Vocal music.
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| Winner of best performance all island, BRI Troupe with adjudicator gray sieling |
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Together with the Best Performance, BRI won the Best Choir for the renditions of gospels songs and a number of other individual awards at the Sri Lankan Festival for the performing arts which is affiliated to the British and International Federation of Festivals for Music Dance and Speech UK of which Her Majesty The Queen is patron.
At the final round at Russian Cultural Centre last week, they were selected following the competitions held in Bandarawela, Galle, Kandy, Kurunegala, Matara, Negombo, Nuwara-Eliya and Welimada which was organized by the Institute of Music, Speech and Speaking Skills (IMSSS) (Pvt) Ltd.
Earlier in 2007 and 2008 also the BRI choir became the Best Choir at the Sri Lanka Festival for the Performing Arts and its Senior Dancing Troupe won the Gold medal at Sri Lanka Festival of Music, Dance and Speech in 2007 while the junior team won the same in 2008.
This year’s adjudicator was Gary Sieling, a director of music and conductor, adjudicator and examiner for the Royal College of Organists, London.
BRK’s two performances under the category of Musicals based on films ‘Singing in the Rain’ and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ became the Best Performance with much acclaim.
“We held this competition for amateurs but two completely difference performances with sudden changes of sets and costumes were outstanding,” Gary Sieling commented.
Music directed by Ian Anuradha Jayasinghe and choreographed by Vasana Prasangika Thalgahagoda, the show will feature 18 items of singing, dancing and instrumental renditions.
With nearly 200 students of all ages, BRI is a founded by musician and singer Ian Jayasinghe and musician and choreographer Vasana Thalgahagoda. The academy trains children for singing, playing musical instruments like the piano, organ and guitar and dancing with a variety of styles like Kandyan, Bharatha, free-styles and social dancing.
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