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It is now possible to buy an annual pass for the Arvo Pärt Centre. With an annual pass, you can make unlimited visits to the Arvo Pärt Centre during one year. The pass also grants entry to any events at the centre that can be accessed with a regular ticket (e.g. lectures and talks).

The composer Arvo Pärt was awarded the Officer grade of the Order of the Oak Crown of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Ordre de la Couronne de chêne) in recognition of his outstanding merits as a composer and major figure of European culture. The high award was presented at the Arvo Pärt Centre by Ronald Dofing, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and was accepted on behalf of his father by Arvo Pärt’s son, Michael Pärt.

From 18 to 25 November 2022, Oxford will be hosting the festival “Arvo Pärt...and a Littlemore” as a celebration of Arvo Pärt’s music. The UK’s largest ever festival dedicated to Pärt includes several UK premieres, among the artists appearing in Oxford are outstanding performers of Pärt's music, including the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and O/Modernt with violinist Hugo Ticciati.

The Arvo Pärt Days, celebrating Arvo Pärt’s birthday in September with 18 concerts across Estonia, will also come to the Arvo Pärt Centre.

From 24 to 29 July, 2022 the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, hosted the congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) that had been postponed twice since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground (University of Chicago Press, 2021), the new book by prolific Pärt researcher Kevin C. Karnes is now available in the Arvo Pärt Centre library. In his new book, Karnes explores the sources of Pärt’s innovative soundscapes and the unexpected dialogue of his early tintinnabuli works with the underground music scene of the 1970s Soviet Union.

On 4 July we were able to welcome some long-awaited guests at the Arvo Pärt Centre: Neeme, Liilia and Kristjan Järvi. We recorded memories for our archive, asking Neeme Järvi to reminisce about his collaboration with Arvo Pärt, which dates back to 1960.

Arvo Pärt and the Arvo Pärt Centre would like to extend their heartfelt wishes to Maestro Neeme Järvi on his 85th birthday.

TIKS Records and the Arvo Pärt Centre have jointly released a vinyl record of Arvo Pärt’s children’s songs, Songs from Childhood, featuring the young singers of the Estonian Radio Children’s Song Studio conducted by Kadri Hunt.

The team of the Arvo Pärt Center commemorates musicologist and journalist Priit Kuuske (18 August 1938 - 28 May 2022). The long-standing passion of the dedicated and thorough music journalist was to cover the events of Estonian music and its spread in the world.

The Estonia Society named composer Arvo Pärt an honorary member of the society for his special merits in achieving the society’s goals. The honorary member certificate was handed over to him on 20 May in Laulasmaa, when a delegation of the society visited the Arvo Pärt Centre.

This year, the Arvo Pärt Centre is issuing two scholarships for creative work at the Arvo Pärt Centre. The residency scholarships are awarded to Estonian playwright, stage director and theatre figure Ivar Põllu and Iranian composer and musician Golfam Khayam.