Evelin Kõrvits
October 18, 1972Member of the Estonian Composers' Union since 1999
Member of the Estonian Musicological Society since 1998
Evelin Kõrvits has graduated from Georg Ots Tallinn Music School in music theory and composition in 1995, where her composition teacher was Alo Põldmäe. In 1999, she graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in musicology, where she also took composition lessons from Eino Tamberg.
Evelin Kõrvits worked as a secretary of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre musicology department (1997–2007) and composition department (1998–2007). Since her studies at the Estonian Academy of Music, Evelin Kõrvits has written annotations for concert programs. From the season 2004/2005 she works as a musicologist by state concert institute Eesti Kontsert. She has produced over a thousand program notes altogether. She has read papers at the events of Estonian Musicological Society and Estonian Composers’ Union. From 1997, she has also been a freelance music engraver. Evelin Kõrvits has sung in choirs (Tallinn Town Hall Chamber Choir, Haapsalu Festival Choir) and participated in performances of several large-scale works with international project choir EuropaChorAkademie.
Her worklist mainly consists of sacred solo and choral songs (nearly 40), as well as piano pieces and chamber music. Most of composer’s church music have been created because of the need for repertoire for two vocal groups where Evelin has sung for years: Credo-Allika Chamber Choir and gospel ensemble Sela. In recent years, Evelin Kõrvits’s music have reached also the larger audience: at the Lootus Festival in Saku Suurhall by all-Estonian church choirs and orchestra (2009), Sacred Song Festival in Tartu (2010), Christ Day at the Lilleküla stadium (with Kiev Symphony Orchestra) and Christmas concert "Immanuel" in Tallinn Kaarli church and Tartu St. Paul’s church (2014). In 2014, two concerts took place in Tallinn and Rapla where Credo-Allika Chamber Choir and Collegium Consonante Orchestra performed the review of Evelin Kõrvits’s music. Kõrvits has been active as an arranger, the most voluminous work has been the arrangement of Leo Normet’s and Boris Kõrver’s operetta Following Hermes (premiere in Tallinn, 2004). Beside music, also art of cookery, gardening, picking natural food and ornithology are important activities in her life. In 2015, Evelin Kõrvits released her first author-CD "Nagu liiva mere ääres" ["As the Sand Beside the Sea"] with 19 works perforemd by Credo-Allika Chamber Choir and Collegium Consonante Orchestra.
Evelin Kõrvits: "My creative process originates from the verbal idea, parallelly arises the harmony – the most important of all musical means. Melody and rhythm is in service of text in order to prominently bring out the thought. Ever more I have brought different instruments to vocal music and thanks to collaboration with Collegium Consonante, almost all my recent works have been written for choir and orchestra."
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