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Maret Nurklik and Kristi Kärmas perform rare Estonian miniatures for flute and piano

On Tuesday, March 25th at 6 PM, flutist Maret Nurklik and pianist Kristi Kärmas will perform miniatures for flute and piano by Estonian composers. Concert called Joy from a Happy Day will take place in Music House of the Old Town. The program includes In the Morning by Ester Mägi, Eclogue by Heino Lemmik, In the Valley, At the River and At the Meadow from the cycle Three Pieces by Heino Eller, Joy from a Happy Day by Raimond Lätte, Nightingale by Heino Jürisalu, Rondo by Anatoli Garshnek and Humoresque by Valter Ojakäär.

The music that is played on the concert has been written in period from 1950 to 1990: after the Second World War, still before Estonia became independent again. Most of the pieces have been found from the albums published this time for flute and piano, so far those pieces have been primarly used for educational purposes. With this concert Maret Nurklik and Kristi Kärmas would like to point out that those rarities have an upstanding place in the history of Estonian music and they deserve setting apart from others even now. The concert is a way of celebrating 90th anniversary of Estonian Republic for the two musicians. The same program will be also recorded in Estonian Public Broadcasting.

Maret Nurklik has been studying flute in the Nõmme Music School with Kai Kiik, in the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School with Tõnu Sepp and graduated the Estonian Academy of Music in 1999 with Raivo Peäske. Since 1993 Maret Nurklik has been teaching flute and recorder in the Music School of Collegium Educationis Revaliae. Pianist Kristi Kärmas graduated the Tallinn Music High School in 1987 with Tiina Kurik, the Estonian Academy of Music in 1992 with Lilian Semper and master studies in harpsichord specialty in the Estonian Academy of Music in 1999 with Imbi Tarum. She has attended master courses of Arbo Valdma and Klaus Schilde. Since 1989 Kristi Kärmas works as a concertmaster in vocal department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, since 2004 also in the Music School of Collegium Educationis Revaliae. She has performed both in ensemble and as a soloist, in Estonia and elsewhere and co-operated with different musicians. Maret Nurklik and Kristi Kärmas have been making music together since year 1999.

Maria Mölder 

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