Guitarist Heiki Mätlik will give three concerts titled as Homeland Tune in Sweden. The program includes both Estonian and European classical music. The concerts will take place on April 22 at 7 pm in Malmö Town Hall and on April 25 at 7 pm at Estonian Home in Gothenburg; additionally on April 27, Mätlik will give a closed concert for the diplomatic corps.
In Malmö the program includes Homeland Tune by Heino Eller and Dance of the Moon Goddess by Peeter Vähi, in addition to that pieces by Max Reger, Arthur Honegger, Paul Hindemith, Ulrik Neumann and Claude Bolling. In Gothenburg the audience can listen to Estonian works like Homeland Tune by Eller, Dance of the Moon Goddess by Vähi, Waltz with Variations by Ester Mägi and Heiki Mätlik’s paraphrase for the music Canción de jinete (Song of the Rider) from The Songs of Death and Birth by Kuldar Sink. Additionally Heiki Mätlik performs music by foreign composers Honegger, Neumann and Bolling.
Heiki Mätlik, the classical guitarist and faculty member of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, often performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Estonia and in foreign countries. This summer Mätlik plans to give concerts in Aland, Denmark and Italy. He has given out over 40 CD-s and DVD-s in co-operation with record companies Harmonia Mundi, Warner Music, Antes and Forte. In 2007, American publishing company Mel Bay published an encyclopedia of guitar music titled Guitar and Lute Composers by Heiki Mätlik and Hannu Annala.
Maria Mölder