Festival program
XX International Tartu Early Music Festival ORIENT et OCCIDENT,
October 8.–11. 2015
Thursday, October 8
19.00 Concert, University of Tartu Ceremonial Hall
Opening of the festival and gala concert
Short performances of Fa Schola Ensemble and other guests of the festival
Musical Sufi ritual – Mohammad Rasouli ensemble (Iran)
Friday, October 9
19.00 Concert, University of Tartu Ceremonial Hall
Music of the Thousand Generations
Pt. Nayan Ghosh (India) – sitar, tabla
Paul Grant (Switzerland) – tabla, kashmiri santur
master Zhang Shangmin (China) – erhu
Saturday, October 10
11.00 – 16.00
Traditional Chinese taiji and qigong practice with live music
Led by master Zhang Shangmin (China), improvised music by the guests of the festival
15€
NB! with pre-registration: raho@festivitas.ee
19.00 Concert, University of Tartu Ceremonial Hall
Golden Sounds of Ancient Europe
Crawford Young (Switzerland) – medieval lute
Poul Høxbro (Denmark) – pipe-and-tabor, frame drum
Nikolay Doktorov (Bulgaria) – kaval
Sunday, October 11
11.00 – 15.00 Symposion, University of Tartu main building
Symposion dedicated to the XX jubilee of the festival
Performance practice and teaching of early and Oriental music
Free entrance
18.00 Concert, University of Tartu Ceremonial Hall
Pearls of Persian Music
Ensemble Chang o Nay (Iran/Estonia)
Paul Grant (Switzerland) – Persian santur
Hamidreza Rahbalaram (Iran) – daf
Ticket information :
Festival tickets can be purchased from the website www.piletilevi.ee ,from Piletilevi’ ticket offices including those at Statoil petrool stations all over Estonia and at concert hall entrances beginning an hour before the concert.
NB! If you buy the tiket before Oct. 8, the ticket prices will be 10€/7€ and after Oct. 8 15€/10€ respectively.
You can also purcase festival passes for all four concerts with a price 30€/20€ .
