Arvo Pärt. Sakraalne minimalism

Arvo Pärt. Sacral minimalism

24.11 / 18:00 / St John’s Church (Jaani kirik) / Tallinn 

Meditative concert with music by Arvo Pärt. Chamber music meets sound therapy On this concert you will hear the music by world famous composer Arvo Pärt in quite unusual instrumental arrangement: piano, violin and archaic gongs – the chamber music meets sound therapies. 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.” Arvo Pärt.

The performance includes following pieces: 

•         Fratres

•         Für Alina

•         Spiegel im Spiegel 

•         Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka

•         Ukuaru valss

•         Passacaglia

Performing: 

Auli Lonks – 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". He 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. He 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, he presented all of Arvo Pärt's piano music. 

Katariina Maria Kirs-Reimal – is an outstanding violinist and multiple international competition laureate, who won the TV competition "Klassikatähed" in 2014. She graduated from Tallinn Music High School and continued her studies with prominent European professors. Since 2021, she has been pursuing her master's degree under Pavel Berman in Switzerland. Katariina has performed with leading orchestras worldwide, including in Israel, Lithuania, Russia, and Estonia, under the baton of renowned conductors. She is also a member of the M4GNET string quartet and plays a 1670 Henricus Catenar violin. Katariina performs on a Henricus Catenar violin (1670) provided by Eesti Pillifond, mistakenly bearing the mark of the master's student Giofredo Cappa, and uses a Louis Henri Gillet bow (1940).  

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:

 25.- € / pre-sale ticket 

30.- € / on the day of the concert (fienta or at the door)

15.- € / for pensioners and university students 

10.- € / school students 7-18 yo 

Concert duration 1,5-2 h, without break. Door open at 17:30

Address: St John’s Church (Jaani kirik), Vabaduse väljak 1, Tallinn 

Info: mob / viber / whatsapp 

+372 559 30 551, +372 5628 5229 info@helid.ee

The sound of the gong creates natural white noise alongside with a wide spectrum of overtones – subtle, almost inaudible high frequency sounds that accompany the main tone. The sound waves created by the gong are flowing in each other and creating new complex tones that make the sound so dimensional and unpredictable that human mind is unable to guess the upcoming sounds. This is the reason why people often hear bells, drums, harps, horns, human voice or a whole chorus during the contemplations on gong sounds – our seeking mind is trying to categorize the sounds it hears. This all has to do with our personal sense of sound. Gong sounds create so-called combined tones that take form precisely in our own hearing apparatus. Those combined tones are responsible for the dual sound reception, which is viewed as an amazing phenomenon by the acoustics experts worldwide. By the philosophy of the ancient sound yoga, nada yoga, the gong sounds possess special magical powers that can stop the thinking process. This enables the listener to reach the „zero point” – the state that yogis call „the blissful nothingness”. Gongs a revered also within the popular Kundalini Yoga tradition – they consider this instrument to be the materialized form of the primordial sound.