Niranjan Wijewickrema

Niranjan Wijewickrema

Niranjan Wijewickrmea, Ph.D.: Musicologist and Trumpeter. Visiting Professor at the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.

Trumpeter and Musicologist Niranjan Wijewickrema studied music at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and Mons. He studied Trumpet with Pierre Thibaud (Paris) and Jerome Callet (New York) before gaining his trumpet degrees in the classes of Antoine Acquisto (IMEP, Namur) and Friedemann Immer (HfM, Köln) and holds a Ph.D. in Musicology (HfM, Karlsruhe) achieved under the supervison of the late Edward Hankins Tarr.

He currently teaches Baroque Trumpet at the HIPP Department of the Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.