Leading artistes and academics to honour Silver screen giant
View(s):Lester James Peries Oration
Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne will be Chief Guest at the third annual ‘Lester James Peries Oration’ which will be held at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 15 at the Committee Room ‘B’ of the BMICH. Guest of Honour on the occasion will be the Ambassador for France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives Christine Robichon. This event is open to the public.
Prof. Sunil Ariyaratne will speak on ‘Songs of Lester-Sumitra Cinema’ while Lakshman Joseph de Saram will speak on ‘Music and the Moving Image’. Senior professor of the Sinhala Language, Mass Media and Communication Faculty of the Sri Jayewardenepura University, Prof. Sunil Ariyaratne is also an acclaimed film director, lyricist, poet, and, an indefatigable researcher into the less familiar aspects of Sinhala literature and culture for which he has also won State Literature awards.
Twice recipient of the Signis International award for outstanding original score for a feature film (‘05 and ‘08), Lakshman Joseph de Saram is a professional classical musician and film composer based in Sri Lanka. Schooled in New York City as a classical violinist, he is a veteran of over 800 concerts.
His recently concluded original score for the StudioCanal/Magnolia Pictures star-studded film, “Bel Ami” (2012), makes him one of a few Asian born creative heads operating on that elite platform. He is also the Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo.
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