“Silence, to the composer, is like a clean canvas to a painter or blank white paper to a poet – tabula rasa.”
– Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt Centre Creative Residency and Scholarships
The peace, the light and the silence at the creative spaces of the Arvo Pärt Centre are welcoming artists from all over the world here to work, create and find inspiration. Our spacious residency room with views opening to the surrounding pine forest is open for composers and performers as well as creators from other fields – writers, visual artists, architects, film and dance artists. We welcome solo artists as well as smaller ensembles, collectives or small working groups (up to 4 people).
Since 2023 the Arvo Pärt Centre residency is part of the Estonian Creative Residencies Network (LOORE).
Our aim is to inspire, offering the time and space for open-ended, creative processes. During the chosen residency period, the artist is welcome to work and practise at the APC building as well as the surrounding area with no fixed requirement for a completed work or project.
To see in more detail what is available in the residency room, please click here.
Accommodation and location
The Arvo Pärt Centre is located in Laulasmaa, 35 kilometres from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, on a beautiful natural peninsula between the sea and a pine forest.
The residency offers accommodation at the Centre’s new residency building, the Alina House (100m from the Centre’s main building), it is also possible to stay at the LaSpa hotel nearby.
For more information about how to get here, please click here.
Applying for Residency
There are two types of residency available:
Residency Scholarship
Two scholarships are awarded every year, one for musicians and one for other artists.
The scholarship will provide an all costs covered residency by the APC, including international and local travel, use of residency facilities, accommodation in the Alina House, and per diems. The applicant is free to decide the duration for the residency between 1 to 4 weeks. Please note this residency is personal and does not include any accompanying persons. While it is possible for small ensembles, collectives or working groups (up to 4 people) to apply for the scholarship, the APC has funds to only cover the expenses of 1 person in a group.
Open call for the APC residency scholarship will start in January 2025.
Self-funded residency
Applications for the self-funded residency can be submitted at any time of the year and depend on the availability of the room. After submitting, the application must be approved by the residency committee. If accepted for the residency, all costs of the self-funded residency will be paid by the applicant.
We offer accommodation in the Alina House (next to the main building of the Centre), and/or spacious creative room at the following prices:
Alina House 70€ per night, 80€ per night with a partner
(bedroom, private bathroom, a small studio room, and a shared kitchen area)
Creative room 40€ per day, 225€ per week
Residents are welcomed to work at the APC main building from 9 am till 6 pm.
Open call for the APC residency scholarship will start in January 2025.
To apply for the self-funded residency, please fill in this application form. Applications for the self-funded residency are accepted throughout the year.
The final selection for the use of the residency room remains with the APC, all residents must comply with our Terms and Conditions. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
For further questions, feel free to contact:
Saara Laurik
+372 335 3000
saara@arvopart.ee