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Young Composers’ Lab: TREFFPUNKT at Sinilind

Treffpunkt (Meeting Place)  is an interdisciplinary contemporary art event, melted round table and audiovisual concert with new pieces by young composers, starting at 5.30 pm at café-cinema Sinilind. The idea of „Treffpunkt“ is to offer a meeting place or space and informal communication environment for the students of three higher education institutions and chosen schools awarded pupils together with the audience.

The concert series Young Composers Lab (YCL) was established 2013 at Tallinn University former Institute of Fine Arts Department of Music (now BFM) within the KIMP festival. This year it is organised by Tallinn University, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT) and Heino Eller Tartu Music School. Treffpunkt is accompanied by a poetical subtitle Sparkling diamonds, which referes in one part to the Digital Composition Contest Grand Prix winner piece by Charlie Karniol, in the other part it is underlining that all of the presented works are polished gems.

Presented are EAMT Composition Department and Electronic Music Studio as well as Heino Eller Tartu Music School students’ audio(visual) (new) works, the new works by the TLU BFM course Basics of Musical Composition, TLU BFM 3rd Digital Composition Contest award winners’ works, TLU BFM course Sound Design short film music as well as the short film premiere by the TLU BFM music teacher master student Olga Savkina with the music of the TLU BFM music bachelor 3rd year student and contest „Eesti laul“ 2016 half-final participant Joonas Alvre.

Initiator and main organiser is Gerhard Lock (TLU BFM composer and lecturer)

Look also: Young Composers’ Lab

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