Musical Dynasty Comes Home for Festival
The Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu is two days away.
Featuring an all-star orchestra, the festival serves as a meeting place for Estonian talent abroad to return home and make music for a week, ETV reported.
At the heart of the summer festival is a master class in conducting, where 16 of 50 candidates made the final cut. The course will be taught by two of the illustrious festival namesakes, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, along with Leonid Grin.
"We will visit a very large repertoire with our students - from the classics, to Haydn to modern Estonian music and Erkki-Sven Tüür," said Leonid Grin.
"It has two facets for me, as I learn much from it myself," Paavo Järvi said. "The musicians are not so young anymore, they are all experienced themselves."
The orchestras for the practicum will be the Pärnu City Orchestra and the All-Estonian Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Wind and strings master courses will also be held, taught by soloists featured at the festival, including world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and the concertmaster of Bremen's Deutsche Kammerfilharmonie, Florian Donderer, who is also the concertmaster of the festival orchestra and a student at the conducting class.
"The orchestra is an expanding work in progress," said Paavo Järvi. "The idea is to invite all the people back again, make the orchestra bigger."
The opening concert is on July 28 and the festival runs until August 4, when Neeme Järvi will be conducting.
Kristopher Rikken