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Baltic Elegies by Tõnu Kõrvits premiered in U.S.

Sunday, June 6 at 3pm, Tõnu Kõrvits’s new work for choir and bassoon will be premiered at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, Bellingham, WA. The work is performed by The Bellingham Chamber Chorale under conducting of Tim Fitzpatrick, composer’s childhood friend, and expatriate Estonian, Martin Kuuskmann of Blaine, WA, will be featured bassoon soloist on the Elegies. Kõrvits will be coming to the U.S. to attend the premiere and discuss his composition.*

The composer drew from poetry of expatriate Estonian artist and poet, Ivar Ivask, who escaped from occupied Estonia in 1944, moved to the U.S., teaching at the University of Oklahoma for nearly thirty years.

The BCC is a 40-member chamber choir of singers from Whatcom and Skagit Counties. Now in its seventh season, the highly polished group features music from the renaissance to modern times. 3 years ago, The Bellingham Chamber Chorale commissioned a new work for choir and bassoon from composer Tõnu Kõrvits, who is nationally renowned in Estonia, and increasingly in Europe and Asia, for his innovative and spiritually resonant compositions.
 

Malle Maltis

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