YSHANI PERINPANAYAGAM, born in 1983, began studying the piano at the age of four under Vladislava Bajic. At the age of 13, she gained entry to the junior department of the Royal College of Music to study piano, flute and composition and during her studies won both the Angela Bull and the Teresa Correno Memorial Prizes, the latter resulting in the main of a recital at the Bolivar Hall, Oxford Circus. In 2004, Yshani auditioned successfully for a place on exchange at the Prague Academy studying with the pianist Peter Toperczer and is now in her final year of study as a scholar at the senior department of the Royal College of Music under John Barstow.

She has performed at venues such as St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden and The Robin Howard Dance theatre located at The Place both as a soloist and with ensembles such as Sounds Positive and The Sarah Ings Ensemble. Yshani was a finalist in the RCM concerto competition in 2004 and has had a variety of competition successes at local festivals.

In September, she will begin her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as a scholar, with Caroline Palmer.

SARAH LOUISE INGS completed her degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2003, studying with Simon Haram, Christian Forshaw and Rob Buckland.

Sarah is a truly inspirational musician, interested in all styles of music from Medieval and folk music to Jazz and Pop. She has had numerous experiences playing with Guildhall Contemporary Big Band and Repertoire Big Band, having jazz lessons with Martin Hathaway and Malcom Miles. Sarah works regularly and runs several chamber groups.

The basis of Sarah’s training was classical. However she has always been interested in jazz and improvisation. Influenced by the ECM label, Sarah has combined the tone of classical sax and the freedom to express herself within improvisation, which jazz music holds so strongly. Improvisation is exciting for both the audience member and performer as you witness music being created on the spot. It’s from this that Sarah develops classical improvisation.

Sarah has always believed that just because she plays the saxophone does not mean that she should just play in a sax quartet. Sarah has initiated many creative ensembles, working with different combination of instruments, stimulating new works and arrangements. Sarah says, 'the possible sound worlds are endless'.

Sarah is a versatile musician, and plays the flute and clarinet to a professional doubling standard. As a child she wanted to play everything. Achieving grade 8 in voice, electronic organ, voice, sax and flute. Her doubling is often featured in many works of Sarah Llewellyn. Llewellyns’ music demonstrates that it’s not just West End shows that sax players use their doubling skills.

Sarah’s love to party, dance and enjoy life, has encouraged her to look for ways in which to present live music, making it visually stimulating as well as pleasant to the ear. Having a strong passion for art and photography, achieving A at A level and having studied alongside leading actors from the Guildhall school of music and drama Sarah aims to combine these experiences to create a new and exciting show.

Challenging the audience of the pop, looking at ways to entertain her audience. Sarah aims to revolutionise the concert platform, with audience participation, suspense and excitement. Influenced by West End show Stomp, Jan Garbareck and Courtney Pine.

More information can be found on Sarah's website at www.musiciansinc.co.uk/sarah_ings.htm