From the Center
Riho Esko Maimets Upcoming Performances and Prizes
Riho Esko Maimets, 2011 highSCORE Prize recipient, has several upcoming performances of his works in Canada and Sweden. On May 15th at Trinity-St Paul’s United Church in Ontario, the Tartu Academic Women’s Choir, Estonia’s foremost women’s choir, will be performing Maimets’s arrangement the ancient Estonian lullaby, Lase kiik käia (“Let the Cradle Swing”). Also on the concert are works by Poulenc, Duruflé, Nystedt, Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Ester Mägi and Tõnu Kõrvits. On May 28th, at the Swedish...
read moreTheofanidis and Moravec Receive Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Two highSCORE faculty members have received awards from the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters– Christopher Theofanidis, chair of composition, was awarded the Wladimir and Rhonda Lakond Award, and Paul Moravec, guest of honor at the 2010 edition of the festival, will be presented with the Arts and Letters Award in Music. The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal it is to “foster, assist, and sustain excellence in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts.” The organization seeks to further...
read morehighSCORE 2012 Special Week with Don Ross
As a center for music research, the highSCORE New Music Center is a proponent of new music from many various musical genres, including pop/rock. In the magnificent surroundings of the hills outside of Pavia (in a valley that Hemingway called the most beautiful in the world), the Center will host its 2012 Special Week, dedicated to exploring the pop/rock genre through seminars, private lessons, jam sessions, and concerts. The highly successful 2011 edition of the Special Week featured the amazing Kaki King. Joining the 2012 edition of the...
read moreQuintets on iTunes
Written by five composers with unique approaches and techniques, the music on this recording imparts a lesson: the electric guitar can at once resemble the strings and distinguish itself from them, it may be used to complement the sound of the quartet, or as a radical counterpoint, but it can never be a neutral presence. Most readers will have spent hours – perhaps many hours – of their life listening to music for string quartet. It is, after all, the most pervasive and emblemic ensemble in the world of Art Music. Many industry...
read moreIrvine Arditti at the 2012 highSCORE Festival
Irvine Arditti has been confirmed to appear at the 2012 edition of the highSCORE Festival! Arditti has had a distinguished career serving as the co-concert master of the London Symphony and then as one of the founding members of the world-renowned Arditti Quartet. The Royal Academy of Music trained violinist has been the recipient of many prominent awards, including the Ernst von Siemens lifetime achievement award and an honorary F.R.A.M from the Royal Academy. Since the early days of his career, Mr. Arditti has been an advocate of new works....
read morehighSCORE mentioned in Estonian music magazine
Past highSCORE participant and recipient of the 2011 highSCORE Prize, Riho Esko Maimets, has earned a mention in the Estonian music magazine “muusika”. Maimets is currently studying composition at the University of Toronto with Christos Hatzis and participated in the 2011 edition of highSCORE where he presented Sanctus for string quartet; My Beloved for French Horn and Piano; and Aftermath for solo guitar. A link to the article can be found at the bottom of this page, and the 2011 highSCORE Prize announcement can be found...
read morehighSCORE guitar music flies to Japan and Estonia
Guitarist and composer Giorgio Mirto, an highSCORE Festival 2011 guest artist, flies to Japan for three concerts of nocturnal music for solo guitar by Albini, Manca, Mirto, Pujol and Signorile in Tokyo. November 2, 7pm at Gendai Guitar salon; November 3, 3pm at Guitar Bunkakan, Ibarag; November 5, 12pm at String instruments exhibition at Kagaku Gijutsukann at Rokkomann Booth. A new score for guitar duo, “Prayer of Quiet”, by highSCORE Festival 2011 Prize winner Riho Esko Maimets will receive several performances in Estonia the next...
read moreRiho Esko Maimets wins the highSCORE Prize 2011
Riho Esko Maimets has been awarded the 2011 highSCORE prize in recognition of “his mature and individual style, in spite of his relative youth. He presented scores of enchanting beauty and unique emotional and communicative impact at the highSCORE Festival 2011″. Maimets can boast an unusual international education. Born in Toronto, Canada, of Estonian origins, he had the opportunity to begin his studies in composition at Earl Haig Secondary School, Toronto, and then further them at the Estonian Academy of Music at Tallinn,...
read moreThe highSCORE Festival: The latest chapter in the history of music in the City of Pavia
The festival takes place in one of Europe’s most ancient seats of learning, the city once known to the ancient Romans as ‘Ticinum’, after the river Ticino on whose banks it was built. Pavia first came to prominence as a centre of culture when the great Ostrogoth King, Theodoric, chose to construct a mighty royal palace here after taking control of the Italian peninsula in AD 493. (1) We can only guess at what the music played and sung in that palace might have sounded like, probably a fascinating mixture of ancient Roman...
read morehighSCORE Festival 2011 revealed
54 scores to be played, 35 premieres, 25 participating composers, 13 performers, 9 lectures, 8 faculty members, 7 concerts, 4 participating musicians, 1 festival: the highSCORE Festival 2011. Hours of workshops, private lessons, and touristic activities. Guest artists, a musicologist in residence and an outstanding guest of honor, Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. Pavia – Italy, July...
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