Playing through this quiet piano miniature I was dumbstruck by its crystalline beauty. The piece was Pärt’s Für Alina. I was hooked. This was 25 years ago when I was an undergraduate at Goldsmiths, ...

Arvo Pärt’s connection with the Järvi family goes back several decades. As James Jolly observes in the booklet notes to this recording, Paavo Järvi’s father Neeme conducted the world premiere of ...

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of religious and orchestral music whose works are among the most performed of any living composer. This article contains content that is no longer available. His ...

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is one of those fortunate composers who has created his own world in music—and is beloved for it in his lifetime. The Estonian, who for the last decade has been the world’s most ...

In the 1970s, the Estonian developed a totally unique style that earned Soviet censorship but made Pärt one of the most performed living classical composers in the world today. For the Estonian ...

Arvo Pärt: one of a select few who make their living solely through composition Born on 11 September 1935 in Paide, Estonia, Pärt studied composition at the Tallinn Conservatory under the influential ...