Arvo Pärt's new work "Adam's Lament" will have its world premiere on 7 June 2010 (8pm) at the 38th International Istanbul Music Festival. "Adam's Lament" was commissioned jointly by the 2010 and 2011 European Capitals of Culture, Istanbul and Tallinn. The piece will be performed by the Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Vox Clamantis. The composer will be presented with the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award before the concert. Another concert on 11 June 2010 (8pm), Homage a Schumann and Pärt, will feature the Turkish premiere of Pärt's "Symphony no. 4 "Los Angeles", performed by the Akbank Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Cem Mansur, and the cellist Antonio Meneses. There will be a pre-concert lecture in Turkish with Cem Mansur on "Schumann and Pärt" at 7pm at the Hagia Eirene Museum Cloisters.

To celebrate the 75th birthday of Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935), Boston University is hosting a conference entitled Arvo Pärt and Contemporary Spirituality on 25-27 March 2010. This conference will examine Pärt's music using and developing cross-disciplinary methodologies drawing on media studies, theological studies and different analytical approaches to music. By working on issues of interpretation it endeavors to bridge the traditional gap between scholars and performers, and it directly addresses the largest group of people who come across Pärt's music: the audience.
Arvo Pärt and Contemporary Spirituality conference website

On 10 February 2009 ECM Records have released the latest recording with works by Arvo Pärt. The album, entitled Arvo Pärt: In Principio features orchestral works and music for choir and orchestra. It includes the following pieces: In principio, La sindone, Cecilia, vergine romana, Da pacem Domine, Mein Weg and Für Lennart in memoriam. The performers are the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.
The CD is to be released on 3 March 2009 in the UK and the US, and can be pre-ordered from Amazon UK and Amazon US
ECM Records promo site for this release

Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, premiered the fourth symphony by Arvo Pärt on 10 and 11 January 2009 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Symphony No. 4 for strings, harp and percussion, labelled "Los Angeles", is dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, currently in a Russian prison, and to "all those imprisoned without rights in Russia". The symphony is 37 minutes long and therefore considerably longer than his previous ones. Arvo Pärt attended the premiere in Los Angeles in one of his rare visits to the United States (see photo © Gina Ferazzi / LA Times).
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The Compositions page of this website is now (almost) complete, with references to 84 works by Arvo Pärt, spanning his entire career. The page is sorted by date of composition in descending order (most recent first). Each entry contains information about the composition date, title, source, duration and text (in the case of choral works). In most cases, you can also find the score catalogue number with links to purchase them.

The Best Choral Performance Grammy was awarded to Paul Hillier, conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, for Arvo Pärt's Da Pacem. The 49th Annual Grammy Awards were handed out on 11 February 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Da Pacem includes the first commercial recordings of Zwei schlawische Psalmen (Psalms 117 and 131) and was released last September by the label Harmonia Mundi.
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