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Ananda Dabare
was introduced to the violin at the age of 8 by his
father and began to learn Oriental music, becoming a
member of the orchestra of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting
Corporation. His interest in Western Classical music was
aroused by hearing a solo violin piece on the radio.
In 1984, Ananda began studies under the famous violin
teacher Douglas Ferdinand, to whom he acknowledges his
greatest debt and influence. He completed Grade Eight of
the Royal Schools of Music Examination within two years.
Then in 1987 he was ‘discovered” by two visiting Russian
violinists which resulted in a five year scholarship to
study at the Moscow and Odessa Conservatoires where he
was awarded a Masters degree.
Ananda performed the Mendelssohn Concerto with us
before he left for Russia and the Bruch: Violin Concerto no.
1 when he returned in 1993. He has subsequently
performed Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3, the
Tchaikovsky Concerto, and Bruch’s Concerto no. 2, as well as the Brahms: Double Concerto and
Beethoven: Triple Concerto.
Ananda became the Leader of
the orchestra in 2001. He is active as a chamber musician
and as a recitalist. He is also a dedicated teacher who has
produced many fine violinists. He is committed to
training young musicians and has recently taken up the
position of the Conductor of the Junior Symphony
Orchestra.
His conducting debut concert with us was
in a programme that included Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 in 1996. This has been
followed by significant mainstream repertoire such as Beethoven's
"Pastoral" Symphony and Dvorak’s "New World", and
Piano Concertos by Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn (no. 1) and
Chopin (no. 2). More recently, he has conducted
Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony nos.
4 and 5.
In 2006 Ananda was honoured with the Bunka Cultural
Award by the Japan-Sri Lanka Friendship Cultural Fund.
Ananda’s experience of oriental music and training in
western music has made him sought-after to do the
arrangements of the Sinhala art songs for voice and
orchestra, which he has done a few times now.
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