This Wednesday, Tõnu Kõrvits’s Kreek’s Notebook (2007) will receive its UK premiere in London. Eight-part work for choir and strings based on Estonian folk tunes will be performed by The Choir of Royal Holloway nad Britten Sinfonia under the baton of Rupert Gough. Concert will take place on June 20 at 7.30 pm at Shoreditch Church within the Spitalfields Summer Festival. The concert program includes also Bogoróditse Djévo and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt and music by Latvian and Lithuanian authors (Vytautas Miškinis, Arturs Maskats, Rihards Dubra, Pēteris Plakidis). Concert will be preceded by conversation with Rupert Gough and Tõnu Kõrvits.
 Tõnu Kõrvits Photo: Kaupo Kikkas |
Festival takes place from June 8 to 23 in Spitalfields, East End of London and is part of the year-round music project Spitalfield Music. Kõrvits’s Kreek’s Notebook has found many performances in Estonia and abroad including Finland (2008, 2011), USA (2008) and Hungary (2011). The work has been recorded on CD by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra with Tõnu Kaljuste conducting (2008).
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