Randooga Music workshops and concerts in Colombo and Jaffna
View(s):In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Sri Lanka, the Embassy of Japan together with the Japan Foundation will present a series of Randooga workshops and concerts in Colombo and Jaffna bringing together Japanese and Sri Lankan musicians to celebrate 60 years of friendship between the two countries.
This is the music part of the Japan Foundation’s ‘Culture for Harmony and Peace’ Project in Sri Lanka, planned and led by Professor Yoshiko Ashiwa of the Center for Peace and Reconciliation, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
The Randooga Workshop features Japanese master of jazz piano, and founder of the Randooga Method, Masahiko Satoh, and renowned Sri Lankan Sitarist Pradeep Ratnayake in a unique joint musical performance that is also spontaneous and improvised. Kei Wada (percussionist), Akiko Uesugi (singer), Isaac Smith (bassist), Peshala Manoj (tabla) and others will join the duo in Colombo and Jaffna.
The Randooga workshops will introduce the method created by Masahiko Satoh to use improvisation as the way of nonverbal communication to enhance dialogue and understanding with oneself and between people.
The Colombo workshop will be held on the 26th of November at the Department of Language and Cultural Studies of the University of Sri Jayawardanepura at 1.30 p.m. The Jaffna workshops will be held on the 28th and 29th of November in collaboration with Professor Shanmugalingam and Dr. K. Sidambaranadan at the Jaffna Heritage Hotel, and it will culminate in a concert at Veerasingham Hall on the 29th of November at 4 pm.
The concert in Colombo will be held on the 2nd of December, at the Lionel Wendt Theater at 7.00 pm. The concert is free to music lovers who can collect their free passes from the Lionel Wendt from the 24th of November 2012.
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