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The Musical soul - Darshana Ruwan Dissanayake

1. The roots of   a  world class musician.

Darshana Ruwan Dissanayake, the renowned Sri Lankan composerhails from a beautiful pastoral hamlet. At all times, polonnaruwa( Rajarata - Pulathisipura ), where he hailfrom ,  has produced personalities to gowell with the call of the era. He turns up for a timely  mission. That is to seal a musical- lacuna.

He stumbles upon poverty but strives hard. His climb startsfrom the bottom rung of the ladder and ends up at  thepeak to find himself a veteran. The dust and soil, nothing new to him. Thewaters of lakes softened  him while the droughts, toughened him. Those conflictingforces molded him a world class musician.

2. The Humanitarian, the Ecologist,  the Historian, the patriot.

He believes in humanity, above all. His pastoral roots nurtured him to be  anecologist. He is an expert of sri Lankan history and its uniqueness, upon whichhis universal musical compositions were created. Patriotism in him is oftendemonstrated in his works and his life. Worldpolitics and philosophy is so dear to him as the back of his hand. MoreoverDarshana is a relentless learner.

3. The Catalyst

Darshana has faith in  Righteousness and fairness and, is a daring rebel.

His fearless Media attacks on the mafias that manipulate the art or the music of the country,are well known and bears and authoritative power. He believes in the blossomingnew generation and never hesitates to extend a helping hand towards them.

4. The Musical Saga

His music  callsfor   a  universal aesthetic sense  that surpasses the human feelings. Music is the reverberation of universalfeelings. He combined SriLankan folk music, Hindustani music Western music and many  other styles  in his compositions andblends  them in an unique mode .Hediscovers  the mode “ Compact operas” tothe world. Darshana has composed more than 1500 songs   ranging   from the Veteran of the veterans Dr. Pandit. W.D  Amaradeva  to new      generation .Musical scores that he composedfor the movie “Samanala Sandwaniya “, widened his  acclaim as a musician.

He was awarded the rare prospect of conducting workshops at stMargrette  School.Australia in 2014 and “the world peacesong” he composed was commended by  theuniversity of Monash. Operas, symphonies,  Compact   operas he has composed standstestimony to his musical   maturity.

Music direction for Advertisements, government  notices, documentaries, and teledramas, isanother aspect of his works. Arepertoire of scores, written for teledramas like Rana,Alubanduna,Heidi,Sihina wilak, Ritigala and, Idadenna bestowed the  people with  a unique musical sense.

5.     Awards

Darshana Ruwan Dissanayake is an award winning artiste both in home and overseas.

1 .Sri Lanka

* best  Director of music  awards   for    stage plays

* Best musician award - State Music Awards 2011 / 2013 / 2014

* Best Folk Music - State Music Awards 2014

* Movie “ Samanala  sandwaniya” – Lanka live film awards 2014 – the Best music director

* Hiru Golden film awards   2014 - the Music trendsetter award

1.for setting a novel musical dimension for  Sri  Lankan  cinema.

2. Attracting people  to  theatres  setting  an academic  trend.

2.Overseas (Australia )

*Awards from  St Magritte College

*Awarded an opportunity to conduct a workshop in University of Monash

6.     The philosopher.

He is certain  that he has got a long   walk  .He is a wanderer (I lent the word from wordsworth,though). A wanderer who believes in an infinite musical excursion .More precisely, a musical wanderer who wanders in searchof perfection. An explorer. A disciple of the universe. Humanity is singular andan artist’s mission is the liberty of the humankind. He is talking about auniversal sense. He experiments for the universal melody towards which thehuman kind ought to strive. He struggles for  a   perfecthuman,  by way of the perfection ofuniversal music. That’s his philosophy.