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Soundarie David
Founder, Pianist and Music Director
Soundarie David Rodrigo, completed
her musical studies at the
prestigious Royal College of Music
in London, where she was obtained
her ARCM in both piano
performance and piano accompaniment.
While at the Royal College of Music
she participated in the prestigious
Piano Platform series, which also
gave her the opportunity to
accompany many instrumentalists and
vocalists, and collaborate at London
concert venues including the Royal
Festival Hall. As a soloist, Soundarie has performed both locally
and internationally. She has
performed with the Symphony
Orchestra of Sri Lanka playing
Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto and
the Grieg Piano Concerto. She has
worked with some of the best music
instructors both locally and
internationally, among them Mary
Billimoria, Ramya de Livera Perera,
Patricia Carrol, John Blakely,
Bernard Roberts, and Maritino Tirimo.
On her return to Sri Lanka, Soundarie
read for her Law Degree at the
University of Colombo and graduated
in 2002.
Soundarie is the Founder and Music
Director of Sri Lanka’s premier
female ensemble, ‘Soul Sounds’ the
first choir in Sri Lanka to perform
and win awards internationally over
the last four years, with acclaimed
performances in India, Australia,
China, Kuwait, and Austria thus
placing Sri Lanka on the map of
International choral Music. She is
also the Sri Lankan Representative
on the Council for
Musica Mundi,
part of the
INTERKULTUR Foundation
of Germany that hosts several
prestigious International Choral
Festivals and Competitions. She,
together with some of her senior
students conduct vocal and
comprehensive musical knowledge
classes at a junior and intermediate
level. She was the first Sri Lankan
to be invited to be on the jury
panel of the prestigious Asian Choir
Games held in Korea in 2009.
She was awarded the SAARC Women of
Achievement Award, and the Zonta
Women Of Achievement for Performing
Arts. She is also a violinist,
and a long standing member of
the
Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka.
Soundarie balances her career as a
Pianist and Music Director of Soul
Sounds, with that of being a lawyer,
having just graduated with a Masters
in Law, in the field of Intellectual
Property and Entertainment Law from
the University of California,
Berkeley. She was awarded the Rotary
World Peace Scholarship for the years 2007-2009.
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