SCHOENBERG RESIDENCY. Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi

Programme: Muruaga, Saariaho, Viirakivi

Performers:

Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi (voice, flute, electronics)
Kai Kallastu (soprano)
Leonora Palu (flute)
Andrus Kallastu (piano)
Gon Muruaga (guitar, electronics)

Since 2007 the Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society has offered composers, performers and musicologists the chance to carry out their artistic plans and to develop collaboration with Estonian composers, performers and creative people from other fields at Schoenberg Residency, a creative residency in Pärnu.

This year's Schoenberg resident is the versatile Finnish composer, singer, flautist and improviser Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi, whose work spans contemporary classical music, experimental new music, contemporary improvisation and interdisciplinary compositions. Viirakivi studied music in Finland and Estonia. She has given the first performances of a number of experimental new works, developing international collaboration with creative people from different fields to do so. www.heliamailiis.com/en

Heliä's creative residency ends with concerts featuring both her own music and works by other composers. The performers also include musicians and composers who have worked with Viirakivi during the residency.

The concert lasts about 1 hour.

In cooperation with: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, City of Pärnu, EELC Pärnu St. Elizabeth's Congregation, Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music (ECCM), Pärnu Opera, Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society

Tickets: Admission free