September 5, 2015
Composed music for Sathyajith Maitipe’s film “Boradiya Pokuna” (Scent of the Lotus Pond).
September 5, 2015
Composed music for Linton Semage’s film “The Pickpocket”, shown at the Locarno Film Festival.
September 5, 2015
State Award for Music given at the State Music Festival 2001 for services rendered to instrumental music in Sri Lanka.
September 5, 2015
- The public performance of the symphonic Tone Poem, Indrakeelaya (Sponsored by South Asia Partnership to raise funds to award scholarships to ten children in the zones of conflict in Sri Lanka) at the BMICH
September 5, 2015
Pradeepanjalee Concert at Abu Dhabi UAE
September 5, 2015
First film music direction for Dr. Leter James Pieris’s film Wekenda Walawwa (an adaptation of Chekov’s Cherry Orchard) which was shown in the Cannes Film Festival 2003.
September 5, 2015
Tone Poem by Ratnayake performed at the New Headquarters Building of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. This was specially commissioned for the opening of the building when the old one was destroyed by a bomb blast in 1996.
September 5, 2015
Performance on sitar for Two Mandolins with Swedish mandolin player Sven Aberg backed by the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka conducted by Lalanath de Silva.1999 –
September 5, 2015
Sponsored by HSBC Bank, at the Lionel Wendt.
September 5, 2015
Producer: DFCC Bank (Original CD commissioned by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
This is a symphonic Tone Poem commissioned by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka for the opening of their new Headquarters building after the old one was destroyed by a bomb blast. The theme is of a phoenix rising from the ashes. This composition tells a story and I have divided this piece into 4 movements named Peace, Conflict, Lamentation and Hope. This was performed live by an orchestra at the opening of the building in 1999.
Research was done of all the musical styles and musical instruments in Sri Lanka and almost all have been used to create this piece. I have used Western Choir, Sri Lankan folk voice, North Indian classical voice, South Indian classical voice, Western string instruments, Sri Lankan Percussion (Gata bera, Tammattama, Udakki) Indian tabla, pakawaj, South Indian percussion like Morsin, Ghatam, Mridangam; Western drums, bass guitar, the bamboo flute and so on.