From February 11 to 13, festival Perfect Silence will take place for the fourth time in Tallinn. Festival presents artists of the record label ECM. In the centre of this year festival is Mediterranean music.
At the concert Chants, Hymns and Dances on February 11, Anja Lechner (cello, Germany) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano, Greece) will perform Greek philosopher Gurdjieff’s compositions based on Caucasian, Tibetan and Central Asian ritual music. Improvisational evening will take place in KUMU Art Museum at 7 pm.
On February 12 at 7 pm, film of founder of ECM – Manfred Eicher, can be seen in KUMU Art Museum. The film session is followed by a conversation with the famous producer with the direction of Immo Mihkelson.
Estonian music can be listened on February 13 at 4 pm in the House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads, where soloists of NYYD Ensemble and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra will give a conert. Program consists of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Architectonics II (for clarinet, cello and piano, 1986), Fata Morgana (for violin, cello and piano, 2002), Symbiosis (for violin and double bass, 1996), Dedication (for cello and piano, 1990) and Helena Tulve’s lumineux/opaque (for violin, cello, piano and three glasses, 2002). Ensemble will play also Alfred Schnittke’s Serenade, Frank Martin’s Ballade and John Cage’s 4’33.
In the same day at 7 pm, jazz music concert Stories Yet to Tell will take place in KUMU Art Museum. Grammy-nominated trio – Norma Winstone (vocal, England), Klaus Gesing (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, Germany) and Glauco Venier (piano, Italy) – offers jazz ballads, original music, adaptions of folk songs and pieces influenced by classical or contemporary music.
Festival’s artistic consultant is Erkki-Sven Tüür, festival is organised by Tallinn Philharmonic Society within the framework of Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011.