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  • Piece for guitar and orchestra

    Finally started to write a piece for guitar and orchestra. Swiss mountains serve their purpose 🙂

  • A piece for a voice, guitar and double bass

    A piece for a voice, guitar and double bass is almost ready! 🙂 Since the beginning of my official music studies I was educated in terms of classical music and classical harmony. Later, when I started to write my first pieces (with a “help” of destructive criticism of some teachers), it was hard for me…

  • Guitar sonata by Vsevolod Pozdejev

    Good news for guitarist and music lovers! Estonian guitar music repertoire got new piece – Sonata by Vsevolod Pozdejev. Shortly about the piece. In summer 2014 I asked, if he could write some larger form for the guitar (previously he wrote one beautiful piece, which I did recorded last year). He agreed and few months…

  • Masterclass with amazing Paul Galbraith!

    Masterclass with amazing Paul Galbraith! 🙂 This musician knows how to explain things simply.

  • Practicing

    1. Stop, put an instrument aside 2. Describe what happened (finger was not in the right time on the right place etc.) 3. Figure out a solution (there might be many: new fingering, different technique etc.) 4. Take an instrument, try the solution out 5. If it works – continue playing piece until the error 6. If solution not…

  • Rhythm in music

    Since beginning of summer 2013 I attend salsa, bachata and kizomba dance lessons. Dancing salsa gave me new dimension in understanding the rhythm in music. My playing has changed in a way, that I began to feel the flow of music (Note! Not the beat! The flow! Because music doesn´t beat, it flows, in my opinion.…

  • Concert and performance on Estonian TV in Tallinn 2013

    11.11.2013 I played at the Estonian National Television. Program was about the “Fiesta de la Guitarra” festival in Tallinn. Organisers of the Festival gave an interview and after I had to play two pieces: one straight after the interview and another in the end of the program. Previous day I had an amazing concert experience…

  • Forgot the score

    Bad feeling when you go on stage to play concert, put the scores in the front of you, start to play first part, then second. After removing second´s part sheet, you are waiting, that there will be the third part, but there is FOURTH! Damn… you begin quietly to search for the third part, so…

  • Concerts in Lapland

    Concerts in Lapland completed! Audience is very warm and attentive. Organisers of the concert in Salla warned me, that there might be a problem in the beginning of the concert to get their attention, but nothing like that really happened. When I came to the stage, they clapped and I set down. Ears began to ache…