Tõnu Kõrvits
Photo: Kaupo Kikkas
On January 30, Tõnu Kõrvits’s A Ghealach Ur / New Moon / Noorkuu for mezzo soprano, saxophone quartet and symphony orchestra will be premiered in Ohio Ada Freed Center. New 3-part work, written on texts of Carmina Gadelica, will be performed by Ohio Northern University Symphony Orchestra, Estonian saxophone quartet SaxEst and mezzo soprano Orna Arania, conductor is Lloyd Butler. Concert entitled Eastern Melodies presents also music by Jean Sibelius, Reinhold Glière and Antonín Dvořák.
On February 9, pianist Takahiro Akiba will play Kõrvits’s The Path of Winter (2004) at the concert Silent Moods in Tokyo Lutheran Ichigaya Center Concert Hall.
On February 10, violinist Manfred Gräsbeck will perform Kõrvits’s new solo violin piece River Song. Concert will take place in Turku Cathedral within the framework of European Capital of Culture 2011.
On February 12, Ferenz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and mixed choir Cantemus will perform Kreek’s Notebook (2007) in Kodály Hall in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. Concert Northern Sounds consists of music by Estonian and Finnish composers.
All concerts (excluding Tokyo) will take place in the presence of the composer.
Mariliis Valkonen