{"id":57129,"date":"2021-01-28T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=57129"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:17:01","slug":"ray-pereira-medal-oam-of-the-order-of-australia-in-the-general-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ray-pereira-medal-oam-of-the-order-of-australia-in-the-general-division\/","title":{"rendered":"RAY  PEREIRA &#8211; MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>RAY\u00a0 PEREIRA &#8211; MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>Sri Lankan born, Ray Pereira of Maidstone, Vic, was awarded the Medal (OAM) for his services to the Performing Arts as Percussionist, Performer &amp; Composer\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57130 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ray-Pereira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Source: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ray.pereira.562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Pereira FB<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mr Anthony (Ray) PEREIRA, Maidstone VIC 3012 For service to the performing arts as a percussionist, performer and composer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Music \u2022 Percussionist, specialising in West African, Afro Cuban and Sri Lankan rhythms.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Recorded and performed with a range of artists including Paul Kelly, Joe Camilleri, Ross Wilson, Yothu Yindi, Archie Roach, Christine Anu, and Paul Grabowsky.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Composer and Performer, percussion tracks for films such as The Dish (2000), The Talking Drum (2002), Shake Hands With The Devil (2007) and Maalu (2014).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Backing Musician on television for a range of artists including Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Billy Thorpe, Isaac Hayes, Ricky Martin, and Chubby Checker. Music Study Tours<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Associate Director, (with Ghanian musician Nii Tettey Tetteh), student study tours to Ghana, since 1998.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Facilitator, Study tours to Sri Lanka, (in collaboration with Kanchana Karunaratna and Professor Karunaratna Bandara), since 2013. Instructional Videos<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Producer and Performer, The Kusun Sessions, (African Rhythm and Dance instructional videos recorded in Ghana).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Producer and Performer, Afro Lankan Drumming System (rhythm style created by Ray and Sri Lankan drummer Kanchana Karunaratna).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Music &#8211; Other \u2022 Register of Peers, Music Board, Australia Council for the Arts, many years.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Performer at festivals and concerts in the US, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Ghana, England, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Indonesia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Financially supports students and musicians in Sri Lanka and Ghana through fundraising efforts in Melbourne and donates his time to support local community events and initiatives in Melbourne&#8217;s West. Moreland City Band<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Vice-President, current. \u2022 Volunteer, Performer and Composer, since, 2009. Teaching<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Guest Lecturer, Master Drumming Classes: Monash University; Victorian College of the Arts; Edith Cowan University; Lismore College of Performing Arts; and the Queensland Conservatorium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Private Teacher, Adult Drumming Classes and African and Cuban rhythm workshops, since 1990.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Music Teacher, Primary Schools, Victoria, current. Awards and recognition includes:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Group Awardee, Bell Award, Best Australian Jazz Group, Way Out West (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sojGJWHeTyk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57131\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ray-Pereira-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray Jammimg with Nii Tettey Tetteh in Ghana, West Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray Pereira is recognised as one of Australia&#8217;s premier percussionists. Born in Sri Lanka, Ray is a versatile musician who plays and records with a number of Australia&#8217;s leading singers and musicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray is regarded as an expert in African and Afro Cuban percussion and runs classes in various locations around Melbourne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">ABOUT RAY PEREIRA<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray\u2019s experience and knowledge has established his reputation as one of Australia\u2019s leading teachers of African and Afro Cuban rhythms and styles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">As a teacher of African and Afro Cuban percussion, and now his new concept Afro Lankan drumming, Ray\u2019s journey has covered continents and decades. He is a current and practising musician who chooses to expand his repertoire and knowledge by continuing to study and play with the best musicians in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray has studied extensively in Africa, Cuba, New York and Sri Lanka, with musicians who are regarded by their peers as among the best in the world. Ray continues to travel regularly for performances and to keep expanding his knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ray is well respected by traditional master drummers around the world for his performing and teaching styles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAY\u00a0 PEREIRA &#8211; MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION Sri Lankan born, Ray Pereira of Maidstone, Vic, was awarded the Medal (OAM) for his services to the Performing Arts as Percussionist, Performer &amp; Composer\u00a0 Source: Ray Pereira FB MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32416,32417,32415],"class_list":{"0":"post-57129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-kanchana-karunaratna","9":"tag-karunaratna-bandara","10":"tag-ray-pereira","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RAY PEREIRA - MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISIONMr Anthony (Ray) PEREIRA, Maidstone VIC 3012 For service\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RAY PEREIRA - MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISION\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MEDAL (OAM) OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA IN THE GENERAL DIVISIONMr Anthony (Ray) PEREIRA, Maidstone VIC 3012 For service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ray-pereira-medal-oam-of-the-order-of-australia-in-the-general-division\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-28T18:17:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ray-Pereira.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ray-pereira-medal-oam-of-the-order-of-australia-in-the-general-division\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ray-pereira-medal-oam-of-the-order-of-australia-in-the-general-division\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"RAY PEREIRA &#8211; 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