Composer / Arranger
Some recent commissions include…
Music for Small Screen
Written and performed by Yshani Perinpanayagam
For piano synchronised to a perfect game of snake. Written for "The Pixel Players" hosted by Royal Concert Hall Nottingham and the National Videogames Arcade
chooseyourpoisongame.com commissioned by Sound and Music // British Music Collection
Hear how your in-game choices impact upon the sonic representation of the environment.
“T-Spinning: Rhapsody on the Theme of Tetris” by Yshani Perinpanayagam (after Korobeiniki and Rachmaninoff)
Performed by Madalina Rusu
Chamber / Vocal
“See how they run;” for string quartet (TW // depression)
Performed by Ligeti Quartet
See the quartet discuss the work further here.
Christmas Carol “In Bethlehem Above” by Yshani Perinpanayagam
Performed by Siglo de Oro
As featured in Multitude of Voyces' Advent to Candlemas Volume
Written for and performed by Sofiia Matviienko
Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for 200 Pieces.
“Hedgehog” for nine isolating instrumentalists
I sent each player an individual part with a click track, and asked them to video themselves playing it on their phone. I provided no further clues as to what it was all about…
Theme Tunes
Featuring Tom Green on guitars
“Dungeons and Dragons but dumb” (from 0’18)
Stage
THREE: for 3² dancers in 3½ minutes.
Curated by Mat Hale // Music by Yshani Perinpanayagam
Choreographed by M.O.P. Dance Company, Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou & Abtonello Sangirardi
Hosted by The Playground // Rambert
RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY
Ben Duke's Olivier nominated dance theatre creation for Rambert is a dissection of the pleasure and pain of performing. To the emotional vivid songs of Nina Simone, the dancers enact a ritual to right the world's wrongs, based on a half-remembered version of the Rite of Spring. http://www.rambert.org.uk
Yshani Perinpanayagam, arranger / MD / piano
by Yshani Perinpanayagam Composed as the show closer for Castles in the Air // Improvised Ghibli Check out the improvisers here.
Comedy
Pippa Evans Grows Up: BBC Radio 4
Music by “Dog Vagina” (Pippa Evans, Alex Atty & Yshani Perinpanayagam)
Germany's entry in the alternate Eurovision, “The Isolation Song Contest “ 🍎🍌🍊⛔️
Learning & Participation
London Sinfonietta Community Commissions ft. principal trombonist Byron Fulcher and Blessed Sacrament School.
“Blue Bottle” for 6 musicians // open instrumentation by Yshani Perinpanayagam
Commissioned by the Musicians’ Union for its members
Why not have a go? Everything you need is here!