January 12-27, cooperate festival of Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music and Printmaking In will take place in Pärnu. Festival focuses on comparison and dialogue of modernist and postmodernist visual art and music. Relationships between music, theatre and visual arts will be studied in lectures, concerts, workshops, exhibitions, discussions, performances and collective listening of music-theatre pieces. Concerts will be given by Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu (piano), Bartosz Koziak (cello), Mart Kangro and Ensamble U:; lectures will be held by Kerri Kotta, Gerhard Lock, Jelena Gandšu, Mart Jaanson, Juliane Brandes, Dominik Sedivy and Balz Trümpy.
On January 12 at 7 p.m. in Pärnu Art Hall, Kai Kallastu (soprano) and Andrus Kallastu (piano) will present Arnold Schönberg’s „15 Gedichte aus „Das Buch der hängenden Gärten” von Stefan George” Op. 15.
Concert-ceremony „20 years of Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music”, including concert-performance „Game” by Mart Kangro and Ensemble U:, will take place on January 18 at 7 p.m. in Pärnu Concert Hall.
On January 18 and 19 international symposion „Analysis methods of modern music” will take place in Pärnu Endla Theatre. Lecturers will be Estonian musicologists Kerri Kotta and Gerhard Lock („Tension design – searching a new analysis method”), Jelena Gandšu („Role of the ostinato-theme in Eduard Tubin’s opera Barbara von Tisenhusen”) and Hans-Gunter Lock („Spatial sound synthesis – generating electronic sound in relation to spatial representation”), Juliane Brandes (Germany), Dominik Sedivy (Austria) and Balz Trümpy (Switzerland). Within the symposion a new collection of articles „Writings on Modernism II. Music and Architecture” (Scripta Musicalia, 2008) will be presented. The symposion will be ended on January 19 at 7 p.m. in Pärnu Old Town School with a concert of cellist Bartosz Koziak (Poland) who will perform also „Stabat Mater” by Estonian composer Andrus Kallastu.
Workshops of Pärnu Days of New Music and Printmaking In have their conclusion on January 26 at 7 p.m. in Pärnu Old Town School and January 27 at 7 p.m. in Non Grata Kunstikonteiner in Tallinn with Big Performance ACTION KUUBIS. All the festival events have free entrance.
Pärnu Days of New Music has been organized since 1988, the aim of the festival is to introduce works by great composers of modern era. PDONM is organized by Estonian Arnold Schoenberg Society, Academia Non Grata and Academia Gustaviana Society.