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Today, 11 November, sees the opening in Oxford of a wide-ranging festival dedicated to the music of Arvo Pärt, 90 Years of Arvo Pärt: A REFLECTION. Taking place at various venues across the university city, the six-day festival focuses on the composer’s tintinnabuli works as he marks his 90th birthday this year. The festival is organised by Music at Oxford in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the Estonian Embassy in London and the Estonian Ministry of Culture. The patron of the festival is Estonia’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, H.E. Sven Sakkov.

The Arvo Pärt Centre Endowment invited patrons of the arts from Estonia and the United States to attend Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday concerts at Carnegie Hall. The evening began with a charity dinner, joined by cultural figures and entrepreneurs from Estonia and around the world, including Estonian President Alar Karis and Minister of Culture Heidy Purga.

On 23 and 24 October, the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York will host the opening concerts of a season dedicated to the 90th anniversary of composer Arvo Pärt. The performances will present some of Pärt’s most significant works to American audiences, interpreted by Estonia’s leading musicians. Alongside the birthday concerts, the programme includes visits to New York by Estonian President Alar Karis, Minister of Culture Heidy Purga and a creative industries delegation, as well as a gala dinner hosted by the Arvo Pärt Centre Foundation and a film screening.

On 17–18 October, the Arvo Pärt Centre will host the international research conference Arvo Pärt: Ideascapes, bringing together scholars from around the world to discuss the musical and intellectual legacy of the composer, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year.

Today marks the opening of a four-day festival at the renowned Flagey concert hall in Brussels dedicated to the 90th birthday of composer Arvo Pärt. Running from 8 to 11 October, the Arvo Pärt Festival features performances by distinguished musicians from Estonia and across Europe, alongside film screenings, lectures and an exhibition introducing Pärt’s work. The extensive accompanying programme has been organised in collaboration with the Estonian Embassy in Brussels and the Arvo Pärt Centre.

To mark the composer’s 90th birthday, the Arvo Pärt Centre has published an extraordinary book-album. Titled Gratefully. Heartfelt. With Love. Musical Greetings from Arvo Pärt, it reveals a previously unknown and humorous side of Arvo Pärt’s creative work.

Arvo and Nora Pärt, along with the team of the Arvo Pärt Centre, commemorate the legendary director and artist Robert Wilson (1941–2025).

On October 17–18, 2025, the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa will host the international research conference Arvo Pärt: Ideascapes. With its intentionally broad thematic scope, we invite scholars from various disciplines to explore and share ideas related to the musical and intellectual legacy of the Estonian composer, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year.

This graphic novel Between Two Sounds, which is about Arvo Pärt, was published by the Arvo Pärt Centre and written by the artist and illustrator Joonas Sildre. It has now reached readers in the Czech language.

From 8 May, the exhibition Spiegel im Spiegel: Encounters between Estonian and German Art from Lucas Cranach to Arvo Pärt and Gerhard Richter" will be on display. It is the largest exhibition of Estonian art ever to be held in Germany. It highlights twelve encounters or dialogues throughout the centuries of shared history between Estonia and Germany. The opening dialogue is a meeting between the works of the composer Arvo Pärt and the Dresden-based artist Gerhard Richter. The exhibition includes manuscripts of Arvo Pärt's works and music diaries selected by the Arvo Pärt Centre, which are being exhibited outside Estonia for the first time.

On 4 May, Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Hanover presented composer Arvo Pärt with the Order of Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco at the Arvo Pärt Centre. Prince Albert II of Monaco appointed Arvo Pärt Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco last November.

Concerto Copenhagen and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir present …Lente, an unconventional interpretation of Arvo Pärt’s music.