Eastern University Workshop/University of Visual and Performing Arts Workshop Colombo
The South Asian Global Music Campus began last year with a pilot Campus at the Sri Pada Teachers Training College in Nuwara Eliya. The Campus has the overall objective of developing innovative new teaching materials for South Asian music, particularly in the Sri Lankan context, and developing a creative partnership between Sri Lanka and Germany in this regard.
This year singer and percussionist Manickam Yogeswaran, saxophonist Will Ramsay, bassist Martin Lillich and drummer
Dietrich Woehrlin return for a music education workshop tour which will take place from the 5th to the 16th of August at the Institute of Aesthetic Arts in Batticaloa and the University Fine and Performing Arts in Colombo. The workshops will include students from the two universities as well as musicians from the different communities in Sri Lanka, including participants from Upper Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan in the remote Karakorum mountains of north-eastern Pakistan. The musicians will introduce the participants to a range of modern teaching methodologies specifically designed for use in South Asia. At the same time the participants will be encouraged to experiment, perform together and exchange ideas.
Eastern University Workshop
06.08. - 12.08. 2018
Batticaloa
On Invitation Only
The first day of Global Music Academy (GMA) in Batticalore started with an introductory lesson and a small rhythm and body percussion module. 20 Students coming from the Faculties of Fine Arts from Eastern University, Sri Lanka and Bulbulik Heritage Center Gulmit, Pakistan will participate in the seven day intensive workshop from today on.
The Global Music Academy is a private initiative from Berlin dedicated to musical diversity worldwide. Manickam Yogeswaran, Martin Lillich, Dietrich Wöhrlin and William Ramsay ¬– all musicians, composers and professional music teachers – are the founder of GMA and also the trainers of the workshop. The main objective of the workshop is to explore the musical heritage of Sri Lanka and to learn about the GMA's method to hand music down through a global musical notation system. In the next days the students will learn more about, inter alia, body percussion, rhythmic reading and writing, vocal technic and the South Asian rhythm system in the context of their own musical and cultural heritage.
The GMA pilot workshop took place in 2017 at the Sripada National College of Education.
This year it will also take place next week in collaboration with the University of Colombo.
University of Visual and Performing Arts Workshop
Colombo
14.08. - 16.06. 2018
On Invitation Only
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