Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Japanese-born pianist Naoko Sonoda released a new digital single, Arvo Pärt: Fratres, on Deutsche Grammophon. The release marks Cañón-Valencia's debut ...

Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...

The Music: These are the works that put Arvo Pärt on the map in 1984, introducing a then-new but now-familar sound world. Simple chord progressions and harmonic relationships are explored to the point ...

In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where Lediņš had been ...

Variety is the spice of life. When a new ensemble emerges and offers something beyond the customary “meat-and-two-veg” billing (a symphony preceded by an overture and concerto) of the flagship ...

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that ...

This past Saturday, the Belgian National Orchestra performed a concert dedicated to Arvo Pärt in honor of his 90th birthday. Titled "Arvo Pärt 90!" the performance was part of this year's ...

World-renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday is set to be celebrated in Oxford, U.K. this month with a special festival of concerts featuring his music. From November 11-16, the city of ...

Pierce hasn’t been alone in declaring a fidelity to Pärt. In 2009, former Public Image Ltd bassist Jah Wobble cited Pärt as his choice of Sunday morning music. He was moved to tears while listening.