Name: Exploring Arvo Pärt's Music
Start: 2024-11-05T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-05T20:00:00+00:00
Location: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

$Exploring Arvo P\u00e4rt's Music$

Delve into the life and music of Arvo Pärt through an engaging talk by Riin Eensalu and Kristina Kõrver of the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia.
About this Event

Arts in Action in partnership with Galway Music Residency are proud to present this talk exploring Arvo Pärt's music.

Explore one of composer’s best known and most loved works – Fratres – which will be performed earlier that day by ConTempo Quartet as part of Galway Music Residency’s Lunchtimes with ConTempo series (1:10pm at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, FREE). Written in 1977 in his new musical language called tintinnabuli, Fratres embraces not only Pärt’s original compositional technique but also his spiritual roots and creative ethos in a broader sense. We can listen to many versions of Fratres – for ensemble or orchestra, with or without a soloist – but in all these different forms and colours it represents something unique and essential to Pärt’s musical thinking. The talk will explore the birth story of Fratres illustrated by the sketches and manuscripts held in the Arvo Pärt Centre’s archive.

Hear why the Pärt family decided to establish a private archive in Estonia, and how it has grown into a public cultural centre that represents not only Pärt’s music, but integrates the topics of creativity, religion, art and education in a broader sense. Find out about the mission of the Centre and the team’s dreams for future and hear about why you should visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, on a peninsula in the middle of the forest.

Galway Music Residency in partnership with University of Galway’s Arts in Action is delighted to present this talk as part of the new outreach initiative Lochránn. This event is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland’s International Residency Initiatives Scheme.

Kristina Kõrver is researcher and archive specialist at the Arvo Pärt Centre since 2012. Riin Eensalu is the programme manager of the Arvo Pärt Centre and has been involved with the Centre since 2013.