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Evelyn Glennie and the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra (“Magma,” 2002),
the WDR Choir and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet (“Meditatio,” 2004), Australian
Chamber Orchestra (“Whistles and Whispers from Uluru”, 2007) etc.
Tüür’s compositions have also been performed at many festivals, including Border
Crossings in Toronto (1990: “Architectonics IV”), Bang On A Can (New York)
(1992: String Quartet), Vale of Glamorgan Festival in Wales (1996: “Excitatio ad
contemplandum,” “Transmission,” “Action. Passion. Illusion”; 2002: Cello Concerto),
Wien Modern (1997, 1998), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (1998:
“Passion,” Requiem; 2001: “Transmission”), Musica Nova in Helsinki (1998: Symphony
No. 3, “Architectonics VI,” “Crystallisatio,” “Lighthouse”), Warsaw Autumn (2001:
Symbiosis), Les Boréales in France (2002: “Architectonics VI,” “Passion”), MaerzMusik in
Berlin (2003: “Architectonics VI”), Klangspuren in Schwaz (2003: “Aditus,” “Oxymoron,”
“Magma”), Icebreaker II in Seattle (2004: “Fata Morgana”), Europamusicale in Germany
(2004: “Architectonics VI,” “Oxymoron”), as well as festivals in Strasbourg, Salzburg,
Gstaad, Celtenham and Oxford.
On March 31, 2003 Erkki-Sven Tüür’s music was premiered at Carnegie Hall (“Exodus”:
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi) and on August 1 of the
same year at the BBC Proms (Violin Concerto: Isabelle van Keulen, BBC Philharmonic
conducted by Paavo Järvi).
On February 1, 2005, Tüür’s Symphony No. 5 for big band, electric guitar and orchestra
was premiered at the ECLAT New Music Festival in Stuttgart, with Olari Elts conducting
the SWR Big Band and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
On September 2007 Tüür was the composer-in-residence of “Auftakt” festival in Alte
Oper, Frankfurt. On July 2008 he was composer-in-residence of Davos Festival.
Erkki-Sven Tüür is one of the artistic directors of the International New Music Festival
NYYD and honorary doctor of the Estonian Academy of Music. He has received the
annual Estonian Music Prize (1987, 1988), Estonian Culture Prize (1997), Baltic
Assembly Culture Prize (1998), Great Bear Prize (1996, 1997), second class Order of the
White Star (2000), Annual Prize of the Estonian Music Council (2003) and Annual Prize
of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia twice: in 2003 for
CD “Exodus”; in 2005 for artistic direction of the international contemporary music
festivals NYYD.
In 1995, Tüür’s Requiem (in memory of Peeter Lilje) was one of the recommended works
at the UNESCO’s Rostrum of Composers in Paris.
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