 Heiki Mätlik |
Today, on October 26 at 8 pm, renowned guitar player and pedagogue Heiki Mätlik will give a concert at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo” de Sevilla. The program of the concert consists of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Arvo Pärt, Max Reger, Arthur Honegger, Paul Hindemith and Eugéne Ysaÿe. |
Guitar player Heiki Mätlik is a well-known soloist, ensemble partner and pedagogue. He graduated from Tallinn Georg Ots Music School (1979) as classical guitarist. He has improved his skills in Moscow under the guidance of Juri Judin and taken part in many master classes. Since 1990 Mätlik is a guitar lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. And he has also given master classes in Estonia and abroad.
Mätlik has performed in the Baltic states, in Nordic and other European countries (e.g. at many music festivals) and in Australia, Russia, U.S. and Canada. He has collaborated with several well-known Estonian and foreign vocal and instrumental soloists (Arvo Leibur, Henry-David Varema, Urmas Vulp, Andres Uibo, Jaak Sooäär, Per Skareng, Kari Äikäs), and with acclaimed conductors like Mika Eichenholz, Paul Mägi and Toomas Vavilov. Mätlik has recorded more than 40 CDs and DVDs, released by Harmonia Mundi (USA), Warner Music (USA), Antes (Germany), Forte (Estonia), Alba Records (Finland) etc. In 2007, American publishing house Mel May gave out lexicon Guitar and Lute Composers compiled by Heiki Mätlik and Hannu Annala.
In his programs one can find Max Reger’s, Paul Hindemith’s and Eugène Ysaÿe’s string music arranged for guitar by Heiki Mätlik himself. On Mätliks’s initiative several Estonian composers, such as Ester Mägi, Kuldar Sink, Lepo Sumera, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Raimo Kangro, René Eespere, Peeter Vähi, Nikita Koshkin, Alo Põldmäe and Anti Marguste have composed solo and chamber music for guitar.
Laura Vaikma