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  • Talk show with Nora Pärt now with English translation

    On 26 September last year Arvo Pärt's wife Nora Pärt was a guest in the season opening of cultural TV discussion programm Plekktrumm (ETV2, ERR). The topics discussed included Arvo Pärt’s work and message and also achieving a creative climate in general. The compare was Joonas Hellerma. The discussion program now has English subtitles for anyone who does not understand Estonian.
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  • Arvo Pärt Centre is open on Museum Night

    “Writing music is like playing with toys. You take out some things, put them the other way around, look at them from another angle. Indeed, how many notes do we have: eight notes for a normal composer. Or even seven.” – Arvo Pärt. During Museum Night, an Estonia-wide event, the Arvo Pärt Centre will again be opening its doors to visitors. As 2017 is the Year of Children’s and Youth Culture, the theme this year is Games in the Night.
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  • A video from the Arvo Pärt Centre

    A video from the Arvo Pärt Centre presenting how we came to be and why the Centre is located in Laulasmaa.
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  • International conference “Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred”

    “Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred” is an international conference within the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary, in collaboration with the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University. The conference is being held on 1–4 May 2017 in New York City and focuses on the sonic and spiritual effect of Arvo Pärt’s music. The conference will host speakers from different fields of research with presentations based on sound studies, a relatively new branch of academic inquiry.
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  • The construction of the new Arvo Pärt Centre starts

    The Arvo Pärt Centre signes an agreement with Ehitustrust AS, a company that submitted the most reasonable tender to the public procurement for the construction of the new building. The construction of the building designed by the renowned Spanish architects will cost 6.69 million EUR, and will take an estimated 14 months. The completion of the new building will make it possible to open the Centre to anyone interested, and to introduce Arvo Pärt's creative heritage through a comprehensive programme to Estonian audiences as well as foreign visitors. The Arvo Pärt Centre will open its doors in autumn 2018.
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  • Arvo Pärt recalls his teacher Heino Eller

    The 7 March will be the 130th birthday of the grand old man of Estonian music, composer and composition teacher, Heino Eller. Arvo Pärt studied at the Tallinn State Conservatory in Heino Eller's composition class from 1957 to 1963. Arvo Pärt recalls his teacher: „I remember my composition teacher Heino Eller, and the years I spent studying with him, with much gratitude."
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  • Gidon Kremer 70

    On 27 February, one of the most remarkable and unique musicians of our time, Gidon Kremer, will be celebrating his 70th birthday. Gidon Kremer's collaboration with Arvo Pärt began many decades ago. The historic première of Tabula rasa took place in 1977, and the ECM recording of this performance by Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra has touched and influenced many listeners, while also being a leading example of how Pärt's music can be interpreted.
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  • Arvo Pärt awarded the Cultural Merit Order of Romania

    The Cultural Merit Order (Meritul Cultural) of Romania was given to Arvo Pärt yesterday. The order was awarded by President of Romania Klaus Iohannis in recognition of the dedication, talent and innovativeness of the composer throughout his creative journey, as well as his open and receptive attitude to the cultural merits of Romania. The award ceremony was held at the Romanian Embassy in Tallinn.
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  • First comprehensive analysis of Pärt’s tintinnabuli style in Estonian

    The Arvo Pärt Centre published a collection of articles by the renowned Austrian musicologist Leopold Brauneiss – Arvo Pärdi tintinnabuli-stiil: arhetüübid ja geomeetria (Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli style: archetypes and geometry), which is so far the most thorough and in-depth analysis of Arvo Pärt's unique composition technique in the world.
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  • Philip Glass 80

    Today, 31 January, Philip Glass is celebrating his 80th birthday. As a composer Glass has significantly contributed to and enriched 20th century music. Arvo Pärt: "Congratulations, my good friend and colleague! Your music has always been in my heart!"
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  • The Deer’s Cry – classical album of the year

    Arvo Pärt. The Deer's Cry by ensemble Vox Clamantis won best classical album at this year's Estonian Music Awards. The CD was produced by the well-known record label ECM. "This CD is one milestone in a long journey. To walk and work with Arvo and listen and follow his observations – it is a very satisfying and enriching process and a great privilege," said Jan-Eik Tulve, the artistic director and conductor of Vox Clamantis.
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  • Farewell, Veljo Tormis!

    The much loved composer, Veljo Tormis died on 21 January 2017. Arvo Pärt and the Arvo Pärt Centre expresses their condolences to those close to Veljo Tormis.
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On 28.03 - 31.03 the Centre is closed. Happy Easter!

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