Yshani Perinpanayagam

As a multi-genre chamber musician, orchestral pianist and music director, Yshani Perinpanayagam has performed at venues and events such as Wigmore Hall, the London Palladium, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Barbican Mime Festival and with artists including the Philharmonia and Nina Conti.

She is pianist of the Del Mar Piano Trio and Carismático Tango Band, and a regular guest broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.

For the National Theatre: The Lehman Trilogy (pianist), As You Like It (MD; Public Acts)

In London’s West End, as MD: Emilia 

Other theatre includes: as MD, Goat for Rambert Dance Company; King John and The Whip for the RSC; Circa at the Barbican; Showstopper! The Improvised Musical; Passion at Hope Mill; Ruination (also pianist), Wolf Witch Giant Fairy (consultant MD) at the Linbury. As conductor/arranger: Longborough Opera’s 2022 Caccini / Waley-Cohen programme

She has premiered contemporary music by Charlotte Bray, Joe Cutler, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gavin Higgins, Hannah Kendall and Benjamin Oliver.

Her commissions for piano, Commodore 64 and bespoke 8-bit synthesisers have been performed at the National Theatre’s River Stage, The Place and the All Your Bass National Videogames Arcade festival.

As a composer, commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, Onyx Brass, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sound and Music, and music for a play about Fanny Mendelssohn.

She is part of the first cohort of composers with Music Patron, a brand-new initiative aiming to transform the way new music creation is funded by directly connecting composers with individuals who want to support them. musicpatron.com

Awards

Yamaha Birmingham Accompanist of the Year Award

Scholar at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.