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Ivari Ilja, Anto Pett and Anne-Liis Poll will perform in Glasgow

11.06.2009

 


Ivari Ilja
Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

From June 11 to 14, the piano festival of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama will take place in Glasgow. Pedagogues of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre – Ivari Ilja, Anto Pett and Anne-Liis Poll – will also participate in the festival.

Improvisers Anto Pett (piano) and Anne-Liis Poll (vocal) will perform on June 11 at 7.30 pm in the Academy Concert Hall.
Anto Pett and Anne-Liis Poll have performed together since 2000. At the moment, Anne-Liis Poll works as an Associate Professor of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and improvises with different musicians.
Anto Pett, a Professor of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, is a well-known improviser who has developed an original technique to teach improvisation. This can be used on all instruments, including human voice. Pett has introduced his method in different music universities of Europe.

Pianist Ivari Ilja’s concert will take place on June 12 at 1 pm in the same hall. In addition to music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin, the program also includes Estonian composer Eduard Tubin’s piece Ballade on a Theme by Mart Saar.
Ivari Ilja is a well-known soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Since 2000, he has been the head of the piano department at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Ilja has performed with renowned singers and instrumentalists on several concert stages of the world.

Laura Vaikma

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