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singing since the age of 8. Her repertoire includes operatic arias, art songs and Broadway. Anagi has appeared as the Soprano soloist in the Camerata Musica chamber choir’s performances of Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Vivaldi’s Gloria, J S Bach’s Jesu, Meine Freude and Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C major. She has also sung as a soloist with the Colombo Philharmonic Choir. She had her debut solo recital at the Russian Cultural Centre in 2010 and was titled ‘Amigos Para Siempre’.
Anagi has also performed the role of Michaela in excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen with the Menaka Singers Opera Ensemble. In 2012 and 2013 she was the soprano soloist of Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, which was held at Saint Andrew’s Scots Kirk.
Anagi started her voice training under the late Kalasuri Lylie Godridge at a very young age and then continued with the late Ms Ruwani Sieman and Ms Menaka de Fonseka Sahabandu.
Her deep desire to form an established past pupils’ choir of her Alma Mater came to light when “Metho Cantanti” was formed in 2012 under her direction. She is currently a joint choir director of this choral outfit.
Anagi is a qualified marketer by profession and a former Brand Manager at Glaxo SmithKline consumer.Manique Abeyratne Manique has been performing since childhood, giving her first solo performance at the age of 5 in the UK where she was living with her family at the time. During her stay in England she learned to play the cello and was a member of the St. George’s Junior Orchestra in Kent. After moving back to Sri Lanka she commenced voice training under the late Kalasuri Lylie Godridge which she followed for 12 years. She was a member of the Moratuwa Choral Society and has taken part in many sacred and secular performances at venues across the island. She has also completed classical piano examinations up to diploma level and is an accomplished guitarist.
During her undergraduate studies she trained the university choir and was also a member of the university band where she played the keyboards and the drums, and was the lead female vocalist.
Manique joined Metho Cantanti in March 2012 and became co-director of the choir from September 2012. She was also the director of the Mount Lavinia Methodist Church Choir from 2012-2013.
Arranging and composing music in the classical, semi-classical, gospel and pop genre’s is another of Manique’s achievements. Several of these arrangements have been performed by her university choir and her church choir as well as Metho Cantanti. Manique has a B.Sc(Hons) degree in Information Systems from the Manchester Metropolitan University and a MBA from PIM. She is currently R&D Support Manager for Financials at IFS World Operations.
