Here from time to time I’ll be posting updates to give a little more insight on my work, random thoughts on other subjects as well as information on new projects and similar things.
The idea of the first experience proved itself working well. Most of the beginners, who came in my guitar class in September 2016, these days ask me regularly “when can we do our own piece? Please! Please!” 🙂 According to my program, a student, coming to a first lesson with me, is creating right away […]
read moreET Nootide tundmine on tähtis! Nii nootide kui ka erinevate tabulatuuride tundmine on tähtis. See on sama kui mida rohkem keeli valdad – seda kasulikum. See annab liigipääsu informatsiooni juurde. Ja informatsioon on jõud. RU Знать ноты – это важно! Знание нот как и знание разных табулатур важно. Это как знание языков: чем больше знаешь, […]
read moreStarted a new project: guitar and soprano singer. Collecting lyrics, poems and short stories about nature; legends and myths from various countries: Estonia, England, Finland and Japan. Composing music for them with some folk flavor. Probably this summer some concerts will follow 🙂
read moreRecently I was invited to speak about my music as well as my teaching method to Tallinn Guitar Festival June 2017.
read moreI had a chance to study with very good musicians. One of them was my orchestration teacher. He taught me to pay more attention to instrumentation and orchestration. Through him I again discovered the art of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (couple of year ago I visited his home – now a museum, – in Saint-Petersburg, sensed a […]
read moreCouple of days ago I came across one interesting article. The author was writing about 6 varieties of love that ancient Greek used to distinguish. It seemed to me so wonderful the idea, that few days later I sat down and decided to write a set of small pieces – each representing one kind of […]
read moreWriting a theme or a melody for a piece for me is an intellectual work, a lot of analysis. I think of a theme as of a person and search for a better way to describe its character. In music for that we have three basic tools: Melody. Harmony. Rhythm. Where the second one can be seen as a […]
read moreET Eelmisel nädalal mu väiksed heliloojad-esinejad õpilased mängisid oma teise kontserdi. Jällegi soe vastuvõt publiku poolt. Vanemad väga õnnelikud! Mõtlen käivitada oma kontserdisarja. RU На прошлой неделе мои маленькие композиторы-исполнители сыграли свой второй концерт. Опять тепло принимается зрителями. Родители очень счастливы! Думаю о запуске нашей собственной серии концертов. EN Last week my little composers-performers students […]
read moreSome time ago I wrote a piece for two guitars, dedicated to the school where I teach. “I wanted to write a work that reflects the school’s history through the centuries to the present day and also add my experience of working there: the support of colleagues, сheerful students and general enjoyable atmosphere.” Here is […]
read moreWhen I teach composition to my small and big students I always spend some extra time and repeat again how important it is to have a form: beginning, middle part and ending. How to arrange them, so that they work. It’s like a cake: when all the ingredients are mixed without a clear logic, without […]
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