Tanya Ekanayaka

Tanya Ekanayaka – Tanya Ekanayaka: The Planets & Humanity – Piano Reflections (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano

The eight works in this album explore reflections on the eight planets of the solar system and the earths seven continents. Most bear echoes of traditional melodies originating from indigenous peoples. Largely composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanya Ekanayaka’s passionate awareness of the connections and congruences between the past and present is reflected in her vision of harmonious co-existence. In this cycle she presents a tapestry of moods tenderness, fantasy and vivid trans-creations of ancient melodies. DR TANYA EKANAYAKA is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Sri Lankan-British concert composer-pianist. Although trained as a pianist, her compositional skills are the result of a purely intuitive and natural development. Influenced by her multifaceted background, multilingualism, ambidexterity and partial colour synaesthesia her works which she describes as deeply autobiographical and which evolve when she is at the piano (and at times in her dreams), have not been scored in any form but remain precisely frozen in her memory once evolved. Consistent with her interdisciplinary background, she holds a doctorate for interdisciplinary research involving Linguistics and Musicology from The University of Edinburgh, where she has also been engaged part time in academic teaching since 2007, as well as advanced academic and professional qualifications in Music Performance, Linguistics and Literature.

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Tanya Ekanayaka – Tanya Ekanayaka: 12 Piano Prisms (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 913 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano

Tanya Ekanayaka’s ‘Twelve Piano Prisms’ extend the concept heard on her album ‘Reinventions: Rhapsodies for Piano.’ They correspond to the twelve primary notes of the keyboard, and combine Sri Lankan melodies with music from other countries in a deeply personal representation of diverse cultures; their style inspired not only by a rich heritage of Western classical and indigenous world music, but also by pop, rock and film music. Dr. Tanya Ekanayaka is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Sri Lankan-British concert composer-pianist regarded as one of Sri Lanka’s finest artists. Classically trained and with a background in Asian and Popular music, she is also a linguist, musicologist and record producer. Although she trained as a pianist, her compositional skills are the result of a purely intuitive and natural development.

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Tanya Ekanayaka – 18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:17 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos World Music

Tanya Ekanayaka presents a stunning selection of 43 works for solo piano composed between 2021 and 2022, inspired by 40 languages – from rare and endangered languages spread across the six continents of the world where people live permanently, to some of the most famous and unusual languages of South Asia.

Mystical, vibrant, contemplative and poetic, the sutras and pianisms cross a wide spectrum of moods and thoughts.

The fearless musical authenticity of the prolific composer and pianist shines through in the wonderful originality of this remarkable double album.

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