Avishka Edirisinghe is a British/Sri-Lankan pianist and conductor specialising in Opera. Avishka graduated from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music (RCM) with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Music Performance, before going on to do a Master’s Degree at the Royal College of Music in Collaborative Piano and Conducting.
Avishka discovered his love for Opera as an undergrad when he started working with singers. As an accompanist, he won prizes in all RCM song competitions, as well as winning the Pianist’s Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Competition at Wigmore Hall. Whilst in his final year of his Master’s degree, Avishka became the English National Opera’s (ENO) Assistant Chorus Director fellow, where he spent a season at ENO assisting the chorus master in preparing the ENO chorus for all their productions. In January of 2023, Avishka became the ENO’s acting chorus master and prepared the ENO chorus for their productions of Bizet’s Carmen, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, and Korngold’s The Dead City. That Summer, Avishka also became a young artist Repetiteur at Opera Holland Park and went on to start working at Glyndebourne as their Assistant Chorus Master.
In September 2023, Avishka moved to Florence, Italy, to become a Mascarade Opera Emerging Artist, where he worked and studied as an Opera Repetiteur alongside the other singers in the Studio. Whilst there, Avishka got the chance to perform at the “Teatro La Fenice” opera house in Venice, as well as preparing the singers for a show at the “Teatro della Pergola” in Florence. Since returning to the UK from Florence, Avishka has spent most of his time working at Glyndebourne as a Repetiteur, Assistant Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor on various productions. He has also recently worked at Garsington as their Trainee Assistant Conductor, and conducted the Chineke! Orchestra and Voice for their Christmas concerts in London.
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