On March 16, the composer’s recital of Peeter Vähi takes place in Estonia Concert Hall. The programme includes Vähi’s work in concert genre or style created in the last decade, concertos for flute, for bamboo flute and for guitar among them.
The musical dialect of Peeter Vähi has formed on the basis of several sources, embracing his academic training and occupation as a pop musician, as well as a long-time interest in Oriental music. Vähi has been engaged as a keyboard player in the ensembles “Vitamiin” and “Uus Generatsioon”. Since the 1980ies, Oriental culture and music has become his main source of artistic inspiration in composition. Electronic sound processing is also frequent feature of his music.
Peeter Vähi’s Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra (1991) is the first one in Estonian music written for acoustic guitar. His flute concerto “Chant of the celestial lake” (1999//2000) is a love story reflecting Asian legends and dedicated to Estonian flutist Maarika Järvi. “A chant of a Bamboo” for bamboo flute and chamber orchestra (2001) is inspired by Japanese shinobue flute. Oriental colour is also characteristic to recital’s title work “Mystical uniting” for flute, violin, guitar, 2 tanpuras and strings (1990/1998). “Forty two” (1997) for electric guitar, organ and chamber orchestra is influenced by Baroque music and dedicated to Elvis Presley, Joe Dassin and Vladimir Vyssotsky.
At the Peeter Vähi’s recital in Estonia Concert Hall, Slava Grigoryan (guitar), Neeme Punder (flute), Rein Laaneorg (guitar) and Andres Uibo (organ) perform with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Risto Joost. The concert is produced by State Concert Institute Eesti Kontsert.