Vicumpriya Perera

Vicumpriya Perera ( Sinhala: විකුම්ප්‍රිය පෙරේරා) is a Sri Lankan born mathematician, lyricist, poet and music producer. He has published three books of Sinhala poetry, ''Mekunu Satahan'' (Sinhala: මැකුනු සටහන්) in 2001, ''Paa Satahan'' (Sinhala: පා සටහන්) in 2013, and ''Mawbime Suwandha'' (Sinhala: මව්බිමේ සුවඳ) in 2023. He has written over 200 songs and has produced eleven Sinhala song albums. He currently works as a mathematics professor in Ohio, US.

Life and career

Vicumpriya Perera is originally from Wattala, Sri Lanka. He is a graduate of St. Anthony's College, Wattala and Ananda College, Maradana, Sri Lanka. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with first class honors from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and continued his graduate studies at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis. He obtained a doctorate degree from Purdue University in Pure Mathematics with research concentrating on operator algebras and functional analysis in 1993.

Vicumpriya Perera lives in Ohio, US, where he has worked as a mathematics professor at Kent State University (Trumbull campus) since 1998. He works in operator algebra, which is an area of pure mathematics.

Vicumpriya Perera is the current president of the Ohio Mathematical Association of Two year Colleges (OhioMATYC), the Ohio Affiliate organization of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC). He also serves as the immediate past president of the Colombo University Faculty of Science Alumni Association - North America (CUFSAA), since the conclusion of his term as President of the Association (2021-2023).

List of albums

The following is a list of the songs albums that Vicumpriya Perera has produced. Vicumpriya Perera was the sole composer of the lyrics of all of them.

''Siththaruwanani'' included songs from the sinhala classical musical genre (sarala gee). Instrumentalists for this album consisted of Sri Lankan musicians Mahendra Pasquel, Sarath Fernando, Dhananjaya Somasiri, Janaka Bogoda, Susil Amarasinghe, Rohana Dharmakeerthi, Shelton Wijesekera, and Dilusha Ravindranath.

Other productions

In 2005, Vicumpriya Perera (along with Nalin Jayawardena, and Jaanaka Wimaladharma) produced a compact disc set, ''Dhammapadaya'' (Sinhala: ධම්මපදය), under the Lanka Heritage label. The set contained four discs, and consisted of complete the Dhammapada stanzas in the original Pali language followed by the Sinhala translations chanted by venerable Beruwala Siri Sobhitha Thero of the Sri Lanka Buddhist Vihara in Perth, Australia. In 2006, this disc set had an English release called ''Dhammapada''. This version had the original Dhammapada stanzas (again in Pali) followed by the English translations written and rendered by Dr. Gil Fronsdal, director and resident teacher Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City, California, US.

In 2012 Vicumpriya Perera (in collaboration with Nalin Jayawardena) produced a Sinhala Audiobook called ''Kulageyin Kulageyata'' (Sinhala: කුලගෙයින් කුලගෙයට) under the Lanka Heritage, LLC. The book was written in 2009 by Bhadraji Mahinda Jayatilaka, who provided most of the voice work . The audiobook has a total length of five compact discs, and was published by Sarasavi Publishers, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.

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External links

Lyrics of Vicumpriya Perera Vicumpriya Perera music on Google Play

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