 René Eespere Photo: Gert Kelu |
Composer René Eespere celebrates his 60th birthday with concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where the top of his numerous chamber music will be presented: Modus vivendi, Reditus, Epigram V, Matbeth, Triangulum, 4 Ostinatos, Trivium, Februarium and Epigram VI. Music will be performed by Marius Järvi (cello), Margus Uus (cello), Tiit Peterson (guitar), Tarmo Eespere (piano), Aurelia Eespere (soprano), Neeme Punder (flute) and Ivi Ots (violin). Concerts will take place on October 10 at 7 pm in Estonian Embassy in Moscow, October 11 at 7 pm in Moscow Composers’ Union and October 12, at 7 pm in St. John’s Church in St. Petersburg.
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Composer and pedagogue René Eespere who celebrates his 60th birthday on December 14 this year, has made his name in Estonian music history with widely beloved children’s songs, patriotic choral songs („Ärkamise aeg” [The Time of Awakening], „Kodu on püha” [Home is Holy]), with numerous piano and chamber music works and concertos for different instruments as viola, cello, flute, violin, clarinet, guitar and trumpet. Eespere has been awarded the annual ESSR Music Award (1989), the 4th class Order of the White Star (2001), the Live and Shine Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (2001–2002), the Annual Prize of Endowment for Music of Culture Endowment of Estonia (2008) and the Estonian Music Council Prize (2011). In the end of September, Eespere author’s concerts took place also in Finland: in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti
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