International Research Conference Arvo Pärt: Ideascapes
October 17–18, 2025 at the Arvo Pärt Centre
October 17
Christoph Wolff (keynote speaker), Harvard University
Cultural Memory in Music: Reflections on Arvo Pärt’s Concertino Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte…
Leopold Brauneiss, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Accent as an Element of the Musical Embodiment of the Word in Arvo Pärt’s Works
Kerri Kotta, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Theosis as a development of style and a formal-rhetorical journey in the works of Arvo Pärt
Mark Tatlow, University of Gothenburg
Arvo Pärt’s Mozart-Adagio as musical timescape
Anu Veenre, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Discussing Pärt: Colleagues’ Views on Arvo Pärt’s Music at the Working Meetings of the Estonian SSR Composers’ Union in the Late 1970s
Toomas Siitan, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Arvo Pärt Centre
Arvo Pärt and Shifting Modernisms
Maarja Tyler, Arvo Pärt Centre, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
Expressionist Nekrolog (1960) in the Context of Arvo Pärt’s Work
October 18
Eero Tarasti (keynote speaker), University of Helsinki
Arvo Pärt – philosophical and music historical approach to his music
Peter Bouteneff, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York
1 + 1 = 1: Reflections from Theology on Tintinnabuli
Peeter Torop, University of Tartu
Semiotics of creativity: ante factum and post factum dynamics
Marek Tamm, Tallinn University
One Line, Infinite Meanings: Holistic Thinking in Arvo Pärt and Juri Lotman
Joonas Hellerma, Estonian Public Broadcasting
Blossoms from a Broken Spirit: Reflections on the Philosophy of Modernist Music and the Work of Arvo Pärt
Marie Antunes Serra, University of Strasbourg
Modalities of expressions of the sacred in Arvo Pärt’s and John Tavener’s vocal music in the late 1990 and early 2000
Kristina Kõrver, Arvo Pärt Centre, University of Tartu
Arvo Pärt’s musical diaries as intersemiotic ideascapes in sound, word and image