Ravinia 2024 Issue 2

DINUK WIJERATNE Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne is a Juno- and multi-award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist whose boundary-cross- ing work sees him equally at home in collabo- rations with symphony orchestras and string quartets, tabla players and DJs, and takes him to international venues as poles-apart as the Berlin Philharmonie and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Wijeratne has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Opera Bastille (Paris), Lin- coln Center, and Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), as well as in Sri Lanka, Japan, and across the Middle East. He was featured as a main char- acter in What Would Beethoven Do? , a docu- mentary about innovation in classical music featuring Eric Whitacre, Bobby McFerrin, and Ben Zander. In concert, Wijeratne has recently performed with the San Francisco Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and the Banff International String Quartet Compe- tition; forthcoming projects include collabora- tions with Grammy winners Elliot Madore and Avi Avital. Wijeratne has shared the stage and/ or composed for: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble, James Ehnes, Zakir Hussain, Sand- eep Das, Ed Thigpen, the Gryphon Trio, TorQ Percussion, the Afiara, Danel, and Cecilia String Quartets, and with every major Canadian or- chestra. He holds a doctorate from the Universi- ty of Toronto, having also studied at The Juilliard School (with John Corigliano), Mannes College in New York, and the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK. He was recently appointed Assistant Professor to the Faculty of Music at the University of Ottawa. His music and collab- orative work embrace the great diversity of his international background and influences. Dinuk Wijeratne is making his Ravinia debut. MARTIN THEATRE 7:30 PMWEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2024 THE KING’S SINGERS PATRICK DUNACHIE, countertenor EDWARD BUTTON, countertenor JULIAN GREGORY, tenor CHRISTOPHER BRUERTON, baritone NICK ASHBY, baritone JONATHAN HOWARD, bass Northern Lights TRAD. NORWEGIAN Wedding March from Valsøyfjord * Leading Lights GJEILO Northern Lights * GRIEG Ave maris stella * GJEILO A dream within a dream * 150 Years of Hugo Alfvén ALFVÉN In Our Meadow * ALFVÉN Evening Song * ALFVÉN And the Maiden Joins the Ring * A Tribute to The Real Group EDENROTH Words * TAUBE The Sea Was Never So Shimmering * ÅHLÉN Summer Hymn * EDENROTH Pass Me the Jazz * –Intermission– Finnish Legends MÄNTYJÄRVI Pseudo-Yoik * RAUTAVAARA Legenda * SIBELIUS Finlandia-hymni Songs in Close Harmony Longstanding favorites fromThe King’s Singers’ trove of pop, jazz, folk, and spiritual arrangements * First performance at Ravinia RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 57 MICHELLEDOUCETTE