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Arvo P\u00e4rt is one of the most significant figures in contemporary music and holds a unique position in the global music world. His career, marked by profound aesthetic ruptures, has transformed the way we listen to sound, time, and silence by opening a musical space grounded in resonance, simplicity, and essentials.<\/p>\n
In P\u00e4rt & Songs, P\u00e4rt\u2019s oeuvre becomes a resonant space where new compositional approaches emerge. Roberto Negro approaches the work with a sensitive and personal touch: \u201cThere is something incomparably true in Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s music. Something crystal clear. A combination of calm, silence, strength, and contrast.\u201d Negro adds: \u201cI am searching for continuity, for breath. I am looking for a way in which music can transform its shape seamlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberto Negro\u2019s career is defined by a unique blend of contemporary music and improvisation, from piano solo to large ensembles. His music carries a narrative and visual dimension, supported by a poetic quality in which his Italian heritage subtly appears. This award-winning visionary has established himself as one of the most original and active musicians in French jazz. Negro\u2019s collaborations with saxophonist Emile Parisien have taken him on tour across Europe in various ensembles, including Les M\u00e9tanuits, an adaptation for saxophone and piano of Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti\u2019s first string quartet. Among his long-term collaborators are also violinist Th\u00e9o Ceccaldi and drummer Michele Rabbia. In 2023, the renowned Ensemble Intercontemporain premiered his work Newborn. Negro, classically trained, born in Turin and raised in Kinshasa, Congo, studied jazz in France, first in Chamb\u00e9ry and then in Paris.<\/p>\n
Photo: Jean-Pascal Retel<\/p>\n
Tour support: AJC, Spedidam
\nIn collaboration with: Helsinki Jazz & Vapaat \u00e4\u00e4net<\/p>\n
The concert is supported by City of Helsinki and Svenska Kulturfonden.<\/p>\n
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