Upcoming events
Aurora Orchestra // Frantic Assembly @ southbank centre, UK dates & European Tour
Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals (performed from memory)
Richard Ayres Dr Frompou’s Anatomical Study of an Orchestra (world premiere)
“Aurora presents a new staging of The Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns’ vibrant introduction to orchestral instruments is performed from memory and infused with movement, design, lighting and new text by Kate Wakeling: from the virtuosic flight of the flute to the demon speed of the pianists, from the floor-shaking footsteps of the double bass to the soft glides of the cello, prepare to be dazzled by this spectacular carnival parade.”
John Reid & Yshani PErinpanayagam: pianists
More details of tour venues here.
Love in Many Forms // Multi-Story Orchestra @ Bold Tendencies
How do we love? Let us count the ways. Multi-Story Orchestra’s new orchestral and choral piece Love in Many Forms explores the varied kinds of love that shape our lives
Yshani Perinpanayagam, conductor
Cycles of My Being // Save The Boys // Tyshawn Sorey // Ruhrtriennale, Germany
A genre-busting song Recital.
He writes songs about racism and other tough Topics that reflect the reality of many Black people in the USA. Tyshawn Sorey, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music, is just as adept at new music as he is at jazz and finds new forms with every task he confronts. With the song cycle Cycles of My Being and the 20 minute countertenor aria Save the Boys, he takes his place among the great art song composers.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, Piano
BBC Radio 3 // Building a library, Record Review
choosing my favourite recording of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with Andrew McGregor.
The Faggots and Their Friends between revolutions
“Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman conjure up a world that takes the original text on a kaleidoscopic journey that ignores boundaries just like the characters on stage do, drawing on theater, dance, and song from the Baroque to Broadway and beyond. The performers serve as actors, storytellers, and musicians all rolled into one, continually swapping roles while doing away with gender and genre norms and replacing them with unapologetic individuality and a lust for life. Their deeply personal stories prove both comforting and healing when shared through community in a colorful, madcap, and profound patchwork. The resulting cabaret-like spectacle is both vulnerable and daring, a fantastic parable hiding a political manifesto for survival that gives voice to the marginalized and oppressed everywhere.”
Further details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, Music Director and performer
BBC Proms // Live from the Proms Box on Radio 3
Hear my reflections on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Prom live on radio 3 during the interval alongside my proms recommendations for the following week
Ryan Wigglesworth, for Laura, after Bach (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E major
Batsashvili / Wigglesworth / BBCSSO
Joséphine @ Buxton International Festival
A Night with Josephine tells the story, with text, visuals and movement, of the American- French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, notorious for her banana dance, but also a civil rights activist, champion of women’s rights, intrepid French Resistance fighter and ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ (Hemingway).
The colourful scene of 1920s Paris is set with three classic silent shorts from the period: Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter 1928) score by Jean Hasse, The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson & Webber 1928) score by Jean Hasse and Entr’acte (René Clair 1924) score by Luke Styles. Their soundtracks are played live by the acclaimed Counterpoise Ensemble.
Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong Joséphine Baker / Writer
Yshani Perinpanayagam Musical director / Composer / Arranger
Stuck // Multi-Story Orchestra @ Bold Tendencies
Multi-Story Orchestra unveils their bold new musical STUCK.
STUCK narrates the relationship between an ambitious young man and his barber uncle, whose shop – and way of life – are threatened by a looming local redevelopment project.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, Composer in collaboration with Multi-Story Young Creatives, Gabrielle Chudi & Richard Baker
Austentatious @ De Montford Hall, Leicester
An improvised-comedy novel in the style of Jane Austen.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
Austentatious @ The Forum, Bath
An improvised-comedy novel in the style of Jane Austen.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
The Frogs // Southwark Playhouse
A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes | Freely adapted by Burt Shevelove | Even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Yshani Perinpanayagam - MD
(Please contact for MY exact performance dates)
Joséphine @ Newbury Corn Exchange
A Night with Josephine tells the story, with text, visuals and movement, of the American- French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, notorious for her banana dance, but also a civil rights activist, champion of women’s rights, intrepid French Resistance fighter and ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ (Hemingway).
The colourful scene of 1920s Paris is set with three classic silent shorts from the period: Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter 1928) score by Jean Hasse, The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson & Webber 1928) score by Jean Hasse and Entr’acte (René Clair 1924) score by Luke Styles. Their soundtracks are played live by the acclaimed Counterpoise Ensemble.
Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong Joséphine Baker / Writer
Yshani Perinpanayagam Musical director / Composer / Arranger
BBC Radio 3 // Record Review of the Century
Andrew McGregor hosts the first part of a special Bank Holiday day-long celebration of the very best classical recordings of the last 25 years.
In this second segment, Andrew will be joined by conductor Ben Gernon, who will introduce some of his favourite recordings of the 21st Century, and by composer and conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam for a mini-Building a Library on some of the best recent recordings of Mozart's Requiem. We'll hear an extended section of Yshani's top choice.
London Sinfonietta: Sound Out @ Royal Festival Hall
An interactive, whistle-stop tour of new music and composition.
Yshani Perinpanayagam: Piano
More details here.
Austentatious @ Vaudeville Theatre
An improvised-comedy novel in the style of Jane Austen.
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
Virgil Moorefield's Pocket Orchestra
New Music ensemble concert streamed live from Zurich
Further details to follow
Carismātico Tango on tour
Carismático Tango brings the passionate flavours of Argentina to the stage with a contemporary twist.
06/03/25: Middlebrough Theatre
07/03/25: Luton Library theatre
08/03/25: Wenlock / The Edge Arts Centre
Yshani Perinpanayagam: Piano
Further details here.
“Play” - solo recital @ Firth Hall
a contemporary recital of works around the theme of ‘Play’, including Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s “Game On” for piano and Commodore 64 and a new work by Andrea Balency Béarn
More details here.
Ruination @ Les Abbesses, Paris
Dance theatre company Lost Dog reimagines the Greek myth of Medea.
Pianist / MD / Composer / Arranger
Further Details here.
Ruination @ Royal Ballet and opera Linbury
Dance theatre company Lost Dog reimagines the Greek myth of Medea.
Pianist / MD / Composer / Arranger
Further Details here.