about
LYDIA SRI
These are perhaps the most fundamental principles I have been taught and have learnt to live by from as early an age onwards as I can remember. Now of course, I have learnt to apply both of these concepts to most areas of my life over the years, but it will always be most apparent to me in the arts and quite specifically in music.
I grew up in and around a music educational festival that my family founded and still organizes to this day since 24 years ago in Aarau, Switzerland, which by now is an international annual event. Its growth and sustenance is owed to much blood, sweat and tears. I was practically born during the week of the first year they hosted it. Along with the music and all the artistic influences that I could tap into while working with my family and our guests all these years, the uncompromising values for delivering excellence and top service were instilled deep within my siblings and me. Even as we have all now left home for the time being, those values have crossed the oceans with me.
I am a performer, writer and organizer at heart, passionate about composition, arranging, directing and production. In these I find a purpose, a tool and a voice to tell and to give to others what I had received in abundance. I’ve chosen a musical direction that is unique in my family. As a child, I started off singing along to jazz and intricate improvised solos at a very young age so that my parents felt encouraged to send me to piano lessons.
Excellence and Stewardship..
At the age of 11, however I made the decision to learn to play the guitar, which remained my primary instrument for nearly ten years and is still my personal favourite to play. During these 10 years, I also began learning the fundamentals of diatonic accordion and of the violin and in so doing had my deep-rooted love for all things Folk reflected.
In addition to Folk, I have developed a very varied interest in music genres, ranging from Jazz and 60’s-80’s pop during my childhood, to Funk, R&B and Soundtracks during my teens, to many different World styles, Fusion and Electronic Productions in most recent years.
At 21, I arrived at Berklee, which, aside from my academic studies in Film Scoring, Electronic Production & Design and Contemporary Writing & Production, has taught me a great deal about the kind of musician I’d like to be; a producer that empowers my fellow musicians and colleagues towards excellence and unconditional giving to one another and to the world.
I’m finding that I have no preference for one style of music at this point, or in a particular type of ensemble that I’d like to direct. In fact I resonate to being all-rounded since I relate to a variety of cultures and musical genres. It is my passion to create and form, be it my own work or someone else’s ideas. I wish to do justice to anything entrusted to me with dedication to deliver excellence. I wish to uphold a standard and to be a role model paving the way for others to achieve it.
For what is better than being served with excellence that is born out of love and passion?