Liis Jürgens
b. April 7, 1983, Tallinn
Member of the Estonian Composers' Union since 2006
Liis Jürgens graduated from the classes of composition (with Alo Põldmäe) and harp (with Eda Peäske) at the Tallinn Music High School in 2002. The same year, she became a student of the Estonian Academy of Music where she studied composition with Helena Tulve and harp with Eda Peäske and worked with Margo Kõlar at EAM Electronic Music Studio. 2005/2006 Liis Jürgens studied harp as an exchange student at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Professor Adelheid Blovsky-Miller. Now she is obtaining master’s degree in harp with Eda Peäske at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and improves her skills in composition with Helena Tulve.
In 2004 and 2006, Liis Jürgens attended the International Workshop for Young Composers in Dundaga, Latvia and in 2004 Workshop of Music Composition “Music and creative act”, held by Salvatore Sciarrino in Rome. In 2005, Jürgens’ choral work “Lullaby” reached the final of the composition contest held by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. The same year, Liis Jürgnes participated in the competition and workshops of SoundTrack_Cologne 2.0.
Jürgens’ works have been presented at the festival of new music „Arena” in Riga (Latvia), International New Music Festival NYYD in Tallinn, the Estonian Music Days Festival and the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music. Her music have been performed by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Latvian vocal group “Cosmos”, Tallinn Youth Symphony Orchestra, mezzo soprano Iris Oja etc, also by young composer herself as a harpist and pianist.
Liis Jürgens:
„As a child I imagined that music, the work of great composers like Bach perpetually has existed in the world, like leaves, flowers, light and water. Later I realised that many of the sound complexes have been created by people. Imitating composers that I had listened to became the most exiting doing for me. Since today, I have a fancy for finding connections between likely sound combinations being met in various works. Everything is influenced by everything, it is not a secret. My music is simply an assemblage of impressions. It reflects and comprises everything I have undergone, heard, seen, learned, and thought about, would it be an everyday life or metaphysical experience. And at most, the present while.”
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