Friday, 15 October
I
10.00–10.15 Gathering
10.15–10.30 Opening
10.30–11.30 Peter J. Schmelz (Keynote Speaker) – Arvo Pärt and Valentin Silvestrov: Creative Parallels from Experimentation to Sensation (video presentation)
11.30–12.15 Leopold Brauneiss – Characteristics of the Compositional Process in Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Technique
12.30–14.00 Lunch
II
14.00–14.45 Chris May – Cyclical Structure and Dramatic Technique in Litany (video presentation)
14.45–15.30 Mart Humal – Arvo Pärt’s Second Symphony and XJI-Invariant Twelve-Tone Rows
15.30–16.15 Toomas Siitan – Pärt, Bach and the Bees
16.15–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–18.30 Concert: ensemble Vox Clamantis, conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve
Saturday, 16 October
III
10.00–10.45 Tauri Tölpt – The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed in the Works of Arvo Pärt
10.45–11.30 Nikita Andrejev – The Theology of the Word Underlying the Creativity of Arvo Pärt
11.30–12.15 Peter C. Bouteneff – Case Studies in Pärt’s Textual Settings: Silent and Sounded
12.15–13.30 Lunch
IV
13.30–14.15 Andreas Waczkat – The Sound(s) of Silence: Presence of the Unhearable in Arvo Pärt’s Silentium
14.15–15.00 Jeffers Engelhardt – Tintinnabuli’s Materiality (or, Listening to Pärt like a Piano Technician) (video presentation)
15.00–15.45 Kevin C. Karnes – Tintinnabuli and the Sacred: A View from the Archives, 1976–1977 (video presentation)
15.45–16.15 Coffee break
16.15–17.30 Discussion
The conference is supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies).