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Dinuk Wijeratne is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in 1978 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and moved to Canada in 1989. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and later at the University of Toronto. He has composed for a variety of ensembles, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet of Canada, and the Canadian Opera Company. He has also conducted orchestras in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Wijeratne has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including the K.M. Hunter Award for Music, the Toronto Arts Council's Established Artist Award, and the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. He has also been nominated for the Governor General's Performing Arts Award. Wijeratne is currently the Artistic Director of the Toronto-based New Music Concerts, and is a professor of composition at the University of Toronto. He is married to Canadian violinist and composer, Vivienne Spiteri.

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2017

He was commissioned by the Calgary Philharmonic to compose "First Winter", a movement for its 2017 True North: Symphonic Ballet. The piece combines the work of five composers, and was premiered at the True North Festival in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. "First Winter" was also performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the 21C Festival in 2019.

2016

In 2016 Wijeratne's composition "Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems", from the Afriara Quartet's album Spin Cycle, won a Juno Award as Classical Composition of the Year.

2013

In 2013 Wijeratne conducted the Elizabeth Bishop Players as they recorded music accompanying soprano Suzie LeBlanc for the album I Am In Need of Music.

2005

Wijeratne was born in Sri Lanka, and grew up in Dubai, UAE. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK, and with John Corigliano at Juilliard in New York City. In 2005 his family moved to Nova Scotia.

2004

Wijeratne made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2004 as a conductor, composer and pianist, performing with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He became the Music Director for the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra in 2006, and held a 3-year appointment as Conductor-in-Residence with Symphony Nova Scotia.

1978

Dinuk Wijeratne (born 1978) is a conductor, composer and pianist, living and working in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His work Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems won both the 2016 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year and the 2016 East Coast Music Award for Classical Composition of the Year. His boundary-crossing musical collaborations include ground-breaking combinations of symphony orchestra and tabla, and string quartet and DJ.

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