Rohan De Silva

Pianist Rohan De Silva was born in Sri Lanka and trained mostly in Britain and the U.S. He has had a distinguished career as an accompanist to some of the world's most famous soloists, mostly violinists. De Silva was born in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. He studied piano as a child with his mother, Primrose De Silva, and Mary Billimoria, later enrolling at Colombo's Isipathana College. From 1975 to 1981, he studied piano at the Royal Academy in London with Hamish Milne, earning an associate's degree. He then became the first recipient of Sri Lanka's President's Fund scho...