Composer

Hans Sachs Choir Nuremberg

Meistersinger Hall

Conducted by Donato Cabrera, California Symphony performs at the Lesher Center, featuring California Symphony Concertmaster Jenny Cho and Assistant Concertmaster Sam Weiser.

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Northern Lights

Lesher Center for the Arts

Silvestrov’s Quiet Music sets a calm and reflective tone with gentle melodies that take listeners on a meditative journey, away from the noise of everyday life.

Joanne Pearce Martin and Jin-Shan Dai

Los Angeles Harbor College

Pacific Unitarian Church

Beauty, passion and the miracles of nature – there’s no tale that an orchestra can’t tell, and there’s definitely no symphony quite like Tchaikovsky’s shattering Fourth. Raw tragedy, roof-raising triumph: it’s explosive stuff, so guest conductor Kristiina Poska begins with something a little more tranquil. Arvo Pärt’s haunting Cantus is the perfect complement to a wonderful new set of songs from Elena Langer, inspired by the songs of birds and the nature poetry of Glyn Maxwell. Experience musical history in the making.

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony

Usher Hall

Beauty, passion and the miracles of nature – there’s no tale that an orchestra can’t tell, and there’s definitely no symphony quite like Tchaikovsky’s shattering Fourth. Raw tragedy, roof-raising triumph: it’s explosive stuff, so guest conductor Kristiina Poska begins with something a little more tranquil. Arvo Pärt’s haunting Cantus is the perfect complement to a wonderful new set of songs from Elena Langer, inspired by the songs of birds and the nature poetry of Glyn Maxwell. Experience musical history in the making. 

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Caird Hall

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

The internationally acclaimed Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste, celebrates the famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the indelible mark he has left on choral singing and classical music over his 90 years. As a composer, Pärt has changed the course of music — both within and beyond the classical sphere. Profound, powerful, and beloved worldwide, his work transcends time and space, taking us beyond everyday existence into another realm.

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

University of Michigan

Among them, parallel trajectories echo each other with poignant force. Korngold and Schoenberg, two major figures in Viennese music, had to flee Nazism. The former found refuge in Hollywood where he revolutionized film music; the latter reconstructed his musical language in the United States. Their works bear the scars of this uprooting, between nostalgia and audacity. Pablo Casals and Roberto Gerhard, Spanish exiles, embody resistance through music. Casals, an opponent of Franco, transformed El cant dels ocells into a hymn of freedom. Gerhard, a disciple of Schoenberg, blended avant-garde and Catalan folklore in a unique style, shaped by his exile in England. Arvo Pärt, Olga Podgaiskaya, and Samir Odeh-Tamimi extend this reflection on wandering and creation. Pärt, forced to leave Soviet Estonia, found refuge in timeless music. Podgaiskaya and Odeh-Tamimi, heirs to these journeys, in turn question boundaries and shifting identities. An evening resonating with the echoes of a torn 20th century and the persistence of a beauty born of absence. A world concert where each note echoes a lost land, but also the hope of a new beginning.

Exiles #2

Opéra Comédie

Italy in the 18th Century – Chamber Music Concert #1

Stadtmuseum Pforzheim

Visit to the Vesperkirche: Italy in the 18th century – Chamber music concert

Pforzheim Town Church (Evangelical)

Mozart died at the age of 35 before he was able to complete his masterful Requiem. Maestro Gomez has conceived a “completion” by commissioning Tucson composer Dan Coleman to compose a work connecting the Requiem to Mozart’s choral gem Ave verum corpus. The quartet of soloists joining the TSO Chorus includes the return of Angela Brower for the second of two weeks.

Mozart’s Requiem

Catalina Foothills High School

Iveta Apkalna: The Queen of Instruments

Mozarteum Foundation

His music is clear yet rich in nuances: This is what makes the works of the year's ruler, Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), so incomparable. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt honored his English colleague, whom he never met in person, with a cantus. Britten himself explored nocturnal spheres in his Serenade and the later Nocturne. The tenor and horn are the outstanding players on this journey through darkness and dream. Sergei Prokofiev's Symphonie classique, sparkling with virtuosity, takes us back to the light of day: a classical hit in the best sense!

A Tribute to Benjamin Britten

Prinzregententheater

The Belgian National Orchestra celebrates rhythms and percussion. Gershwin's only opera, Porgy and Bess , distills the essence of jazz and contains timeless tunes like Summertime . With Body Language (2012), Julia Wolfe highlights Colin Currie's physical and musical talent, transforming his body into a veritable instrument to fuse the sounds of urban folk music with those of the orchestra. Andriessen's Tapdance (2013), also written for Currie, magnifies the sound of tap dancing and the memory of big bands. As for Arvo Pärt's Fratres , characteristic of the Estonian composer's ethereal and meditative style, it offers a suspended moment imbued with spirituality.

Porgy & Bess

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

Eva Ollikainen and acclaimed pianist Mao Fujita bring the full range of emotion to Brahms’s stormy Piano Concerto No. 1, followed by Stravinsky’s The Firebird, a spellbinding work that bursts with vivid orchestral colours, transporting listeners to a fantastical realm of daring heroes, enchanted princesses, and otherworldly magic.

The Firebird

David Pecaut Square

Start the new year with an enchanting program featuring Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Ralph Vaughan-Williams’s exquisite Oboe Concerto, and serene works by Pärt and Foote.

Serenading the High Plains

Amarillo Botanical Gardens

In early January, the focus of “Audiospaa” series will be on ERSO’s cello section, joined on stage by the renowned vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis. The programme, curated by ERSO cello principal Theodor Sink, creates a compelling dialogue between the works of Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass. Glass’s minimalist sound world is represented by Façades, Secret Agent, and Attack and Fall, while Pärt’s meditative pieces include Missa brevis, Silouan’s Song, and L’abbé Agathon. The evening concludes with Hanging D, a reflective work by Dutch composer and pianist Joep Beving. The concert is conducted by Kaspar Mänd.

Eight Cellos and Vox Clamantis. Pärt and Glass

Estonia Concert Hall

New Year's Eve Concert I

Church of St. Nicholas

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, one of today's most important pianists, will grace the Rudolfinum with his brilliant playing and a unique recital. He will perform Ravel's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, inspired by jazz and Basque folk music. Ravel's models for his composition also included the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Petr Popelka and Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Rudolfinum

Before the Christmas holidays, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra will be on a concert tour in Southern Europe, celebrating the orchestra’s 99th anniversary. The tour program opens with Arvo Pärt’s evergreen Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, which has become an inseparable companion to ERSO’s concert tours. The evenings continue with the works of Finland’s national treasure, Jean Sibelius. Performed by Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, the program includes one of the greatest challenges in the violin repertoire: Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. In the second half of the evening, the composer’s Second Symphony will be performed. Written in Rapallo, a mountainous town on the Gulf of Venice, the work is infused with the light of Southern Europe.

ERSO

Festspielhaus Bregenz

Cankarjev dom

This December, ERSO prepares to embark on a concert tour of Southern Europe to mark the Orchestra’s 99th birthday. Before the tour, a celebratory concert will take place in Tallinn, opening with Arvo Pärt’s timeless Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. The spotlight of the evening will be on the music of Jean Sibelius. Renowned Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma will perform the composer’s Violin Concerto—a cornerstone of the violin repertoire known for its emotional depth and technical brilliance. The program concludes with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, composed in the Italian town of Rapallo. The influence of southern Italian light and landscape is unmistakably woven into the fabric of this majestic symphonic work.

Elts and Lamsma. Sibelius

A lunch break that invigorates the mind. The Thursday lunch concerts will bring audiences the best selection of the Friday night programme.

Symphonic Lunch III: Elts and Lamsma. Sibelius

Enjoy festive music from Mexico, Ukraine, Canada, South Africa, Estonia, as well as traditional Celtic favourites, in a kaleidoscopic programme showcasing the rich tapestry of global Christmas music.

Christmas Around the World

Smith Square Hall

With the death of Benjamin Britten on December 4, 1976, the music world lost one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Only shortly before his passing had the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt gained "an impression of the rare purity of his music." Overwhelmed by the "magnitude of such a loss," Pärt wrote his Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten in 1977 as a homage to the deceased artist, but also as a meditation on death. The bell tone at the end of the six-minute work fades into a tense silence, out of which the opening bars of Mozart's Requiem emerge. It remained unfinished after his death on December 5, 1791, thus making him a myth. Mozart: lux æterna.

Mozart Requiem on Mozart's death anniversary

Woven around well known Pärt pieces such as Fur Alina and Fratres, new works by DJ and producer Koreless, producer and composer Floating Points, British composer and violinist Sasha Scott and composer and cellist Oliver Coates will cast a new light on Pärt’s works, while demonstrating his considerable influence on composers today.

12 Ensemble / GBSR Duo x Koreless: Pärt Refracted

LSO St Luke's

Ashley Hall-Tighe is an internationally acclaimed trumpeter known for her warm tone, expressive artistry, and dynamic performances on stages from the Sydney Opera House to Beijing’s NCPA. A former touring member of Canadian Brass, she is a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, and educator.

Masterworks: Italian Impressions

Lenoir-Rhyne University

Fall 2025 Concert

Calvary Presbyterian Church

On the 21 November 1975, a group of pioneering musicians walked out onto the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall stage and the Australian Chamber Orchestra was born. Founded by the legendary Australian cellist John Painter, these musicians were driven by a shared mission to take control of their musical destinies: to become the country’s first truly national orchestra with an uncompromising commitment to elite performance, to represent Australia on the world stage, and provide opportunities to the country’s brightest young string players.

Celebrating the Australian Chamber Orchestra

Sydney Opera House

For the fifth time in its 45-year history, and for the first time in two decades, The Sixteen will travel to Japan for four performances across the country, celebrating Palestrina’s 500th anniversary and the 90th birthday of Arvo Pärt. In a programme demonstrating the craft of choral writing across the centuries, we combine music from Palestrina’s exquisite Song of Songs and Stabat mater, with the mesmerising sounds of Pärt’s Tribute to Ceasar and Da pacem Domine.

The Celebrated Light of Music

Acros Fukuoka

Aoyama Music Memorial Hall Barocksaal

Sagamihara Civic Center

Tokyo Opera City Tower

Alongside Pärt’s music, they present two deeply expressive works by Estonian composer Galina Grigorjeva, whose choral writing evokes rich sonorities and emotional depth. The program also premieres new works by Evelin Seppar, written especially for the ensemble.

The Carice Singers: Infinity Flow

St Giles Cripplegate

Chamber Concert Early successes

Munich Residence

Evangelische Akademie

Chamber Concert "Early successes"

The atmospheric and deeply spiritual music of Arvo Pärt has made him one of the world’s most performed and beloved composers. Alfred Schnittke, meanwhile, saw himself as a musical link to Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. This concert features works by both composers – music rich in emotional intensity. Arvo Pärt turns 90 this year (on 11 September).

Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke

Konserthuset Stockholm

Just in time for the spookiest time of year, Dracula is a captivating adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic novel, brought to life through two time Tony Award nominated Lynne Taylor-Corbett's mesmerizing choreography and haunting music performed live under the baton of Lorenzo Lopez. Paired with Taylor-Corbett's Code of Silence, you don't want to miss these shows in tribute to the late choreographer.

Dracula & Code of Silence

Mimi Ohio Theatre

The AFEKT Festival celebrates the 90th birthdays of living legend Arvo Pärt and Helmut Lachenmann. To mark the occasion, audiences will have a rare opportunity to hear maestro Lachenmann’s work …zwei Gefühle…. The soloist in Jüri Reinvere’s flute concerto is Monika Mattiesen, the festival’s artistic director. The concert will be conducted by Susanne Blumenthal, a highly acclaimed interpreter of contemporary music.

International Contemporary Music Festival AFEKT. Zwei Gefühle

Experience the Carnegie season’s first performance by the intrepid chamber orchestra The Knights, led by artistic directors Eric Jacobsen and Colin Jacobsen. In an inspired new collaboration, they intersperse Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 3—one of the composer’s most traditionally “classical” works—with original poetry by prizewinning poet and multidisciplinary artist J. Mae Barizo. Even in its original form, this would be Carnegie Hall’s first performance of Glass’s symphony—but in the hands of The Knights, it’s something no audience has heard before. In the program’s second half, The Knights perform a timeless orchestral staple: Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, a work of complex dualities and grand Romanticism.

The Knights at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt acts as a pivot within music history. On the one hand, he is one of the most successful composers of so-called New Music, even though he quickly distanced himself aesthetically from the experiments of the post-war avant-garde. On the other hand, medieval Gregorian chant – "music with soul, without harmony or meter," as he once said – served as his greatest source of inspiration. In this respect, it seems only logical that the celebrated British choir Tenebrae has now designed a program that presents Pärt's music in the context of composers from the Middle Ages and the present.

Darkness / George Herbert / Nigel Short

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi hardly needs an introduction in Hamburg. He gives numerous concerts here every year with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, of which he has been Artistic Director since 2004, and as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Since 2011, Järvi has established another musical pillar with the Pärnu Music Festival, which he founded himself. The reputation of the festival and its resident ensemble – the Estonian Festival Orchestra – now extends far beyond the Baltics. Now he is returning with the ensemble and a program dedicated exclusively to the music of Järvi's famous compatriot Arvo Pärt, marking the 90th birthday of his son.

Estonian Festival Orchestra / Hans Christian Aavik / Midori / Paavo Järvi

The Belfast Philharmonic Choir open their 2025/26 season with a powerful evening of reflection, light, and remembrance in the stunning Gothic Revival setting of St Peter’s Cathedral.

Belfast Philharmonic Choir: All Souls Concert

St Peter's Cathedral

Seven times this season, members of the Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra and guests will perform Sunday matinees in the foyer of the Grand Hall. Here, various ensembles cultivate the rich genre of chamber music and present works of their own choosing – from great classics to rare chamber music works.

Sunday matinee in October

Staatstheater Mainz

Founded in 1981 by Tõnu Kaljuste, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) is now one of the most renowned chamber choirs in Europe. Even though the Estonian conductor stepped down from his leadership of the choir after 20 successful years, he still enjoys returning to the ensemble. Kaljuste and the EPCC are considered absolute authorities, particularly for the works of their famous compatriot Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year – in 2014, they even won a Grammy for their recording of Pärt's "Adam's Lament." They now return to the Elbphilharmonie with this very work, accompanied by the Hamburg Ensemble Resonanz.

Ensemble Resonanz / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Tõnu Kaljuste

From the quiet lyricism of Grieg’s Elegiac Melodies to the haunting grace of Sibelius’s Valse triste, this program traces an emotional journey across Northern Europe and its diaspora. Arvo Pärt’s fearless First Symphony meets the deeply personal voice of Estonian-American composer Lembit Beecher, whose Tell Me Again—featuring acclaimed cellist Karen Ouzounian (Silk Road Ensemble, the Knights)—meditates on memory, identity, and the echoes of family stories.

Ithaca College

In the second of three concerts celebrating the composer's 90th birthday, some of Arvo Pärt’s best known works including Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, L’Abbé Agathon, Fratres and Te Deum are heard alongside Estonian 20th century composer Ester Mägi’s Vesper for string orchestra.

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir: Adam's Lament

Barbican Centre

Music and meditation have long gone hand in hand – in everything from yoga studios to mindfulness apps. The pianist and neuropsychologist Nicolas Namoradze goes one step further by introducing meditation techniques to the concert hall. Arvo Pärt’s deeply introspective music provides the ideal backdrop, creating an entirely new listening experience with guided meditation and flexible seating – whether on chairs, beanbags, or (your own) yoga mat.

Deep Listening

Elbphilharmonie

Iveta Apkalna, titular organist of the Elbphilharmonie, opens the organ season with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year. In their faith and deep spirituality, the composers, both great organ masters, are kindred spirits.

Iveta Apkalna, organ

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Concerto Copenhagen explore new soundscapes in Arvo Pärt's music.

 

You know Arvo Pärt's music, but perhaps without knowing it. The world-renowned composer from Estonia has made a name for himself with his simple, spherical and meditative musical language, which can be heard in countless documentaries and feature films. His choral music in particular is famous throughout the world, not least in Denmark, where the choral tradition is as strong as in the Baltic countries.

Arvo Pärt: Message in Silence

Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen

Aarhus Cathedral

The ancient worlds of Jacobus Clemens Non Papa and the master musician of Elizabethan England, John Dowland, meet the modern minimalists Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt across the centuries.

Attacca Quartet: Dowland, Glass & Pärt

Southbank Centre

We begin at the beginning, with luminous spirituality from 12th-century visionary Hildegard of Bingen. We end with the insistent pulse of Philip Glass’s Third Symphony. And in between, we’re all over the map: in Estonia with Arvo Pärt (the classic Fratres), in Seattle with Nirvana, in Restoration England with Henry Purcell…

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra

The Bridgewater Hall

Fabian Müller has already performed all of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Pierre Boulez Hall; now he will play Mozart's A major concerto, composed in 1786 while he was working on Le nozze di Figaro . Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund will be heard conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin for the first time, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in the meditative sound world of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 90th birthday a few days before the concert. The music of Dobrinka Tabakova, which references a melody by Franz Schubert, leads into a "kind of weightlessness through the cosmos, past stars and planets." Schubert's enigmatic Symphony in B minor will be heard next – music that oscillates between lyrical intensity and gloom, between light and shadow.

Concert in the Pierre Boulez Hall I

Pierre Boulez Saal

Subscription concert

Kurpark Bad Oeynhausen

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Detmold University of Music

Rathaus Gütersloh

Schützenhof city park

Stadtpark Schützenhof Hangül GmbH

The Minden Theater (Stadttheater Minden)

Paderhalle Paderborn

Under the guidance of singer and practical scholar Sally Dunkley, and Sixteen alto Daniel Collins, the workshop will include advice on vocal technique (breathing technique, invigorating warm-ups, voice production) as well as performance interpretation and historical context.

2025 Choral Workshop: Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury Abbey

On Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Ellerhein Girls' Choir, conducted by Olari Elts, will gather on the stage of the Estonia Concert Hall to present Arvo Pärt's diverse program, including the composer's last work from his early work, Symphony No. 3, and examples from his 2000s work, "L'abbé Agathon" and "Lamentate." The piano concerto "Lamentate" will feature the soloist, the laureate of several international competitions, the talented French pianist David Kadouch, who was named a young artist at the 2011 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

PÄRDI DAYS 2025 in Tallinn: BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Concerto Copenhagen & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir rethink Arvo Pärt's music on period instruments

Experience the meditatively beautiful music of Arvo Pärt as you have never heard it before. In this extraordinary concert, Concerto Copenhagen and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir bring Pärt's compositions to life with the warm, organic sound of baroque instruments – revealing new depths and textures in his timeless works.

PÄRT: The sound of Silence

Lusatia Festival

Take a journey through the City of Angels with works by Arvo Pärt, Karen Tanaka, and Caroline Shaw. Jessica Cottis conducts MSO in a programme dedicated to Los Angeles

Arvo Pärt & Los Angeles

Malmö Concert Hall

His characteristic musical style has made him one of the most well-known and sought-after composers of our time, who speaks to an enormous audience – even outside the classical music world.

DR Vocal Ensemble & Arvo Pärt 90 years

Sorø Monastery Church

Trinity Church Copenhagen

Værløse Sogns Kirkegårde

Arvo Pärt's jubilee will also be celebrated with an author's concert in the composer's birthplace, Paide, with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Ellerhein Girls' Choir, conducted by conductor Olari Elts. The concert will feature a cross-section of Pärt's four decades of work.

PÄRTI DAYS 2025 in Paide: ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Paide Spordikeskus

Already awarded several international prizes and celebrated for his "revolutionary, extraordinary, and unpredictable" interpretations, Georgijs Osokins has been shaking up the piano scene for several years. The Latvian has long since established himself on the international stage and is a guest at the idyllic Kotelow Hunting Lodge as part of the "Young Elite" program. He brings a diverse program with works spanning the history of music, from Johann Sebastian Bach to Arvo Pärt and other composers.

YOUNG ELITE Georgijs Osokins

Kotelow Hunting Lodge - Dipl.-Kfm. Jochen Heins

At the opening concerts of the Pärt Days in Tartu and Tallinn, the Estonian representative ensembles Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Vox Clamantis ensemble and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, will join forces to present the vocal-instrumental works of this year's jubilee Arvo Pärt from the 2000s, which bring together sacred texts from the Eastern and Western churches. Arvo Pärt has been called a bridge builder who has built aesthetic, ethical and spiritual bridges between the East and the West with his music. Arvo Pärt has said: “The walls that are built between confessions do not reach Heaven.” In this way, he has tried to stay on this path, “searching for that so ardently longed-for “magic island”, where all people – for me, all sounds – could live in love with each other. The doors there are open to everyone. But the journey towards it is difficult – to the point of despair.”

PÄRDI PÄEVAD 2025 Tallinnas: AVAKONTSERT

PÄRDI DAYS 2025 in Tartu: OPENING CONCERT

St. Paul's Church Tartu

At the end of August, the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt—celebrating his 90th birthday—will meet the electronic soundscapes of Aphex Twin in the big hangar of the Põhjala Factory. Aphex Twin, a global icon in electronic music, has openly cited Pärt as an influence, and critics have often drawn intriguing parallels between their works. The Põhjala Angaar, one of Estonia’s most distinctive venues, offers over 1,100 square metres of space beneath soaring twin vaults—an ideal setting to experience the resonance of Pärt’s tintinnabuli style alongside Aphex Twin’s instrumental arrangements. The concert programme is curated by Vambola Krigul.

Pärt and Aphex Twin

Arvo Pärt’s cult concerto for two violins, Tabula rasa, redefines sound, silence and the relationship between them, while Gavin Higgins’ Rough Voices responds to the pandemic with a musical protest, giving voice to the most vulnerable.

Britten Sinfonia At Summer At Snape

Snape Maltings

Britten Sinfonia At Bbc Proms In Bristol

Bristol Beacon

This concert evening spans an arc from instrumental attractions to the musical manifestation of affection. In his »Serenata notturna«, for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart surprises with the use of timpani in contrast to a solo string quartet and the string orchestra. A real highlight with which Mozart jokingly delighted aristocratic society during the exuberant Salzburg carnival of 1767.

Kammerphilharmonie Hamburg / Göktuğ Çelik / Johannes Braun

Whilst coming from very different eras, William Byrd and Arvo Pärt are both considered masters of sacred music despite having faced considerable persecution for their work. As part of  the 2025 Tanglewood Festival, this programme presents six of William Byrd’s works from the Cantiones Sacrae including the monumental Tribue, Domine, and the mighty eight-voice motet Ad Dominum cum tribularer. The three works by Arvo Pärt speak in his unmistakable voice, with its unique blend of ancient and modern, and include his mesmerising Nunc dimittis which is crafted in his bell-like ‘tinitinnabuli’ style.

The Deer’s Cry: Tanglewood Festival

Tanglewood Music Center

As part of Holland Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 Gift of Music summer offerings, we are excited to announce a special pair of concerts featuring the violin superstar Midori.  She will make her Holland debut with music director and conductor Johannes Müller Stosch and the HSO in two performances of Mendelssohn’s towering Violin Concerto and Arvo Pärt’s raucous double violin concerto entitled Tabula Rasa with ZenViolin creator and prodigy Moni Simeonov.  The program will include Mendelssohn’s whimsical Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave” and J. S. Bach’s regal Orchestral Suite No. 1.  The concerts will take place on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 7:30 pm and Saturday, August 9, 2025, at 2 pm at the West Ottawa Performing Arts Center.

HSO Welcomes Midori

West Ottawa High School Performing Arts Center

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 bursts onto the scene with youthful energy, classical elegance, and a few mischievous surprises—because even a musical revolutionary has to start somewhere. Under the baton of François López-Ferrer, soprano Madison Leonard (a Utah Opera favorite recently seen in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro) dazzles with some of Mozart’s most enchanting arias.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Utah

Huang & Weiss Recital

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Prophetiae — Cantando Admont · Bürgi

Kollegienkirche

In an age of resurgent conflict and frenetic demands on our attention, our 2025 Choral Pilgrimage: Angel of Peace offers a slice of tranquillity in many forms courtesy of luminous, purifying music traversing six centuries. From the enraptured songs of the medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the magical realm of a brand new work by the contemporary composer Anna Clyne, nine pieces of music from across the centuries speak of peace and acceptance and the ecstatic joy their reassurance can bring.

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Arvo Pärt

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 26, 2026

The Tallis Scholars: Mysteries & Miracles · Barbican Centre

Mar 29, 2026

Soundscapes · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Apr 6, 2026

Arvo Pärt / Passion · Orchestre de Paris

Apr 17, 2026

Peteris Vasks · Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Apr 24, 2026

The Tallis Scholars · Cal Performances

Past events

Mar 22, 2026

Hans Sachs Choir Nuremberg · Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

21 - 22 Mar, 2026

Northern Lights · California Symphony

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