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At the end of March, the Arvo Pärt Centre welcomed a visit by Doug Maskew, the BBC sound engineer, who lives and works in Scotland and has collected information about Arvo Pärt's music for more than thirty years.

Arvo Pärt Centre appreciates the attention given to our good collaboration partner, attorneys at law Borenius, who were recognized by the Estonian Minister of Culture, Urve Tiidus, for their contribution in supporting culture.

38 architects and representatives from the 20 selected architectural offices participating in the Kellasalu design competition visited the Arvo Pärt Centre and its surroundings on the 18 March 2014. The aim was to introduce APC’s activities, the grounds as well as the landscape surrounding the future building to the contestants. Amongst the participants selected to

In connection with the upcoming composer's concert series in the USA at the end of May, the Arvo Pärt Centre was visited on 14 March by Dr. Peter C. Bouteneff and Dr. Nicholas Reeves from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.

On 4 March an extraordinary event – the first meeting of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Arvo Pärt – took place in Zürich.

The first stage of the design contest for the Arvo Pärt Centre has finished. 71 applications from around the world were received by the deadline, and 20 participants shall continue in the second stage.

During his visit to Vienna for the performance of Symphony No. 4 at the Musikverein on January 31, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, Arvo and Nora Pärt also paid a visit to the Arnold Schönberg Centre.

In 2014, Arvo Pärt was in focus at Mozart Week between January 24 and February 2. His music was performed at six concerts, and the world premiere of "Swan Song" was presented by the Vienna Philharmonic.

Two interesting reviews representing oppositional viewpoints have been published about „The Cambridge Company to Arvo Pärt" - the collection of articles edited by Andrew Shenton.

Winners in the 56th Grammy Awards were announced tonight at Los Angeles Staples Centre.

Yesterday, January 22 at 16 pm was the deadline of submitting documents for the first stage of international two-stage architectural design contest of building for Arvo Pärt Centre.

According to the recently published analysis for 2013 by the largest classical event database Bachtrack.com based in the UK, Arvo Pärt was listed the most performed living composer in the world for the third consecutive year.