Arvo Pärt. Sacral minimalism.
23.10 / 19:00 / Rugodiv, Narva
Meditative concert with music by Arvo Pärt. Chamber music meets sound therapy.
Since times unmemorable the music has been a tool to uplift the soul, reach the eternal and illuminate the human consciousness into divine experiences.
Arvo Pärt is well known as one of the authors writing music that goes directly to your soul. Presenting this music with sacral and sacred instruments enhances and deepens the effect.
Arvo Pärt is a composer whose music has often been called „the new simplicity”, also „sacral minimalism” or „new music of the blessed”. He himself classifies himself rather metaphorically:
„Like tintinnabuli” (literally meaning „small bells”, referring to the small church bells that have special sound effects).
„Each phrase is a separate breath. Its inner pain and removing this pain are interconnected and create a breath. During the pauses one should learn to listen to the silence, to know how to feel the vibrations created by each sound, its length and transition into the next sound, the weight of that step. One shouldn’t rush; each step from one point to another on the music sheet must be valued. The step can be taken only after you have let all possible versions of notes to go through your „purgatory”. Only after being through all the sufferings is when the sound can be perfect.”
The performance includes following pieces:
• Fratres
• Für Alina
• Spiegel im Spiegel
• Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
• Ukuaru valss
• Passacaglia
PERFORMING:
LEENA LAAS – violin
Violinist Leena Laas has been a member of the Estonian Performers Union since 1999 and has been active works as a soloist and ensemble player. She has given solo concerts in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Russia and Germany, and performed a lot of Estonian music in addition to the classical main repertoire at numerous concerts. In collaboration with Nata-Ly Sakkos completed CD "Poème d'amour".
Leena Laasi's passion has been the baroque violin for twenty years. She has graduated from the Academy of Theater and Music for the second time in the Department of Early Music Interpretation, majoring in baroque violin, and is also fluent in the specifics of this instrument.
In addition to active performing activities, Leena Laas is a violin teacher and is instructed master courses in Kokkola (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden).
Leena Laas works as a violin teacher at Keila and Nõmme Music School.
AULI TEPPO – is one of the most outstanding pianists of the younger generation in Estonia, who gained fame in the first season of the popular television competition "Classical Stars". She has soloed in front of several orchestras, including the ERSO, the EMTA Symphony Orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Narva City Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Western Islands, and has performed in many parts of the world, including Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Russia and the USA. She is also an active chamber musician and often performs with opera singers. In the collaboration project "Ikoonis/Pärt" between the Tallinn Philharmonic and the Tallinn Dance Theatre, which was last performed in New York, she presented all of Arvo Pärt's piano music.
LILIA MÄRTMAA and DENIS VINOGRADOV – multi-instrumentalist musicians, Founders of the Healing Sounds Center in Tallinn, sound therapists, master facilitators, popularizers of sound therapy.
TICKETS:
Prepaid tickets 22-35 eur, at the day of the concert 28-40 eur.
16-23 eur for students and pensioners.
Concert duration 1,5-2 h, without break. Door open at 18:30.
