Niranjan Wijewickrema

Classical Trumpet player, orchestral trumpet and trumpet soloist with focus on baroque trumpet, director of The Belgian Baroque Soloists. After the Academy of music of Grez-Doiceau, Niranjan Wijewickrema studied music at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and Mons and won the first prize of music theory, history of music and written harmony, and graduated in specialized music theory. Niranjan Wijewickrema studied trumpet with Pierre Thibaud (Paris) and Jerome Callet (New York) and obtained a diploma in trumpet at the IMEP in Namur (Antoine Acquisto class), as well as a degree of orchestra trumpeter at the Hochschule für Musik in Köln, in the class of Friedemann Immer. Niranjan Wijewickrema specialized in baroque trumpet with Friedemann Immer at the Hoogeschool voor Kunsten van Amsterdam. As a member of the Tuba Mirum or Director of the Belgian Baroque Soloists, Niranjan Wijewickrema regularly performs in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Niranjan Wijewickrema is currently a PhD student at the Universität für Musik in Karlsruhe. Source: http://www.concert-des-coeurs.be