Jüri Reinvere

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Jüri Reinvere. In Ticino, Switzerland 2011

Jüri Reinvere (born 2 December 1971 in Tallinn) is an Estonian-born composer and poet living in Berlin, Germany. Since 2005 he has used his own poetry as spoken word as an integrated part of his music. He has been writing in English since 2007.

Life

Reinvere obtained musical education 1979–1990 at the Tallinn Music High School and subsequently 1990–1992 in Poland in the Warsaw Chopin Academy of Music. From 1994 through 2004 he studied in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where his teachers were Veli-Matti Puumala and Tapio Nevanlinna.[1] There he got also his master's degree. An influential teacher for Reinvere has also been Käbi Laretei, an Estonian-Swedish pianist and writer.[2]

Reinvere has been known by his transformational, highly versatile and subtile music, which is characterized by unpredictability and unreality. In Reinvere's poetical thinking, one can follow philosophical themes, such as the concept of time, the enigma of God, the psychological depths of man and the state of trauma in post-soviet societies.[3][4]

Reinvere has also published essays and worked for Estonian and Finnish Radio. He has also produced and written screenplays for documentary films, translated and co-written books. Sofi Oksanen has described him as a "true cosmopolitan with Estonian roots."[2] In 2011 Reinvere composed an opera to Oksanen's novel Puhdistus Purge. It was premiered at the Finnish National Opera in spring 2012. Soon after the success of the opera he received another commission: the new interpretation of Peer Gynt, one of Norway's national epics, is scheduled to be premiered at the Norwegian National Opera in autumn 2014.

Works (selection)

Works with own text marked with *

  • Urvaste evenings (for piano, 1987)
  • Double Quartet with Piano Solo (1994)
  • Winter Music (for flute and piano, 1995)
  • Ristna (radiophonic work, 1996)
  • The Estonian Independent * (for piano and reader, 1997)
  • Northwest Bow (for chamber ensemble, 1998)
  • Solo...vers la Sarabande Noire (for piano, 1998)
  • Livonian Lament (radiophonic work, 2003)
  • The Opposite Shore (radio opera, 2001–2004)
  • Luft-Wasser-Erde-Feuer-Luft (music for the dance-performance of Michaela Fünfhausen "Die gefiederte Schlange", 2003)
  • t.i.m.e. * (for flute and electronics, 2005)
  • Ecotone * (for percussion, tape and graphic text, 2007)
  • Frost at Midnight * (for chamber choir and bass flute)
  • Space Within * (for chamber ensemble, 2009)
  • Requiem * (for flute, read text and four male voices, 2009)
  • Beneath the Burial Sky * (for chamber choir, 2009)
  • The Empire of May * (for chamber ensemble, 2010)
  • Puhdistus (Purge) (opera, 2011)
  • Norilsk - the Daffodils (for orchestra, 2012)

Discography

  • 2009 a second...a century[4]
  • 2010 Requiem (CD+DVD)[5]

Prizes

Reinvere has won for Estonia the International Rostrum of Composers in 2000.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://klassikaraadio.err.ee/klassik/rost/e_reinv_b.htm
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.reinvere.de/re71aen.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.last.fm/music/Jüri+Reinvere
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.emic.ee/?id=1173&lang=eng
  5. ↑ http://www.emic.ee/?id=1389&lang=eng
  6. ↑ http://www.esto2009.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=42&lang=de

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