Tanya Ekanayaka

Tanya Ekanayaka (born 6 May 1977) is a Sri Lankan-British contemporary virtuoso composer-pianist, classically trained and with a background in Asian and World music as well as a record producer, musicologist and linguist. Notably, she is among the world’s most prolific female composer-pianists. Early life She began studying the piano at the age of five, and at the age of twelve made her debut recital. At the age of sixteen, as youngest competitor and joint winner of the biennial concerto competition of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, she performed her first concerto. Career Ekanayaka’s debut album of compositions for solo piano composed, performed and produced by her, Reinventions: Rhapsodies for Piano, was released in 2015. Each work in the album builds upon a motif inspired by the tonality of the works which preceded it in its primary concert performance and adaptations of melodies belonging to genres of Sri Lankan traditional and folk music. Twelve Piano Prisms, her second solo album of works for the piano, was released on 14 September 2018. Ekanayaka’s debut album contains adaptations of 10 of the 18 Sri Lankan Vannams while her second album contains adaptations of the rem