Paavo Järvi, the conductor, founded the Estonian Festival Orchestra in 2011 as the resident orchestra of the Pärnu Music Festival.
Composer Biography
Jüri Reinvere learned the flute as a schoolboy to join a military band when drafted into the Soviet army, enabling him to avoid combat.
Composition History
The collaboration between conductor Paavo Järvi and composer Jüri Reinvere began in 2016 in Pärnu, the birthplace of the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Paavo Järvi, the conductor, has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius' Cantatas and being named Conductor of the Year by Opus Klassik in 2019.
Notable Performances
The Estonian Festival Orchestra made history in 2018 as the first Estonian ensemble to perform at the BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Reinvere's music combines the 'big questions of human existence' with 'exact proportioning of temporal progressions, the calculation of modern harmony, orchestral finesse of sounds'.
Composer Biography
Jüri Reinvere, the composer, lyricist, and essayist, was born in Tallinn in 1971 and is considered one of the great instrumental storytellers of our time.
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