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PAST CONCERTS


Arvo Pärt Centre February 22nd  19.00

 VILLU VESKI - saxophones

  TIIT KALLUSTE - accordion

   TAAVO REMMEL - double bass


NordicSounds, the joint ethno jazz project, is a trademark that Veski and Kalluste have taken to more than 30 countries. It has been inspired by the meditative and introverted character, the atmospherics and spaciousness of the music of the North. Their compositions, which embrace an ever-expanding spectrum of world-music influences, have been warmly welcomed in different corners of the globe.

  Veski’s and Kalluste’s first love in music, however, was American jazz. The later change in their aesthetic perspective, and a substantial one at that, was triggered by the twosome’s first journey to the Faroe Islands in 1997.

The inspiration of the natural surroundings and musical sounds seen and heard on the Faroes proved so fresh and invigorating that it led to subsequent recording sessions of Veski and Kalluste. Inspired by the Faroe Islands' crisp and scarce nature, NordicSounds has released 3 albums. Their first album, released in 1998, turned out to be extremely successful, in Estonia and beyond.

In the cover letter to their first album the President of the Republic of Estonia Mr. Lennart Meri wrote: “The Baltic Sea, with the indeterminable coastline of its lands and islands, is our Mediterranean of the North...Here you have two Estonian men, who have plucked notes from the Nordic islands, and have transformed them for us into today’s world. Here is one way to capture the tunes of the Nordic Mediterranean”.


The album was considered by audience in Estonia as the second best after Arvo Pärt.

The duo’s NordicSounds’ programme of folksongs and compositions, “Sounds of the Nordic
Islands” displays the elegiac beauty of Scandinavian folk music in a combination of up-to date and ancient styles. The musicians: “It’s like a musical travel report from the Nordic Islands, inspired by nature, folk music, legends and myths.”


Last summer, the musicians traveled and gave concerts in the Sámi areas of Norway, Givaer Island, the Fleinvaer Archipelago, and the Faroe Islands with musicians from Norway and the Faroe Islands.

The Veski-Kalluste-Remmel saxophone-accordion-double bass trio has shared their music and traveled far from home with this program: Concerts at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, the Varna Summer Jazz Festival in Bulgaria, the Vienna Town Hall, the Porgy & Bess Jazz Club, a concert recording for the Bratislava Radio EBU, a concert tour to Mexico, Finland, Germany, and the Baltic States are just a few examples of the musicians’ more than 30 years of collaboration and stage experience. The trio will be giving a concert for the first time in the beautiful hall of the Arvo Pärt Center.

PAST CONCERTS

OLA ONABULE ( UK ) + VILLU VESKI +

Estonian Television Girls Choir
conductor Aarne Saluveer

Kaarli Church  December 20th 19.00


British singer - songwriter Ola Onabule's collaboration with Villu Veski and the ETV Girls' Choir led by Aarne Saluveer began in 2012, when they gave a concert together in Kaarli Church. The concert was also recorded by Estonian television.
https://arhiiv.err.ee/video/vaata/jazziauhind-2012-villu-veski-54953

This concert recording was later broadcast by the US TV channel PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) under the title "Christmas Music from Estonia". Ola Onabule' s more than ten years of cooperation with Veski has taken them to many festivals around the world: Istanbul Jazz Festival, Burghausen Jazztage, Lagos Jazz Series, International Jazz Day RO and others. Together with the ETV Girls' Choir, the concert was given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank Center Choral Festival.

Ola Onabule is a British singer and songwriter with Nigerian roots.
At first glance, Ola appears to be a charismatic and experienced entertainer with fantastic stage charm, emotional intensity, vocal virtuosity and excellent audience awareness. For those who already know and love his work, Ola Onabule is a truly powerful artist with incredible stage presence, charisma and the ability to cross cultural boundaries.

       Over the years, Ola has built an international career with his recordings and concert programs. Ola's music has been used in films, arrangements of his songs have been heard around the world with big bands, orchestras and choirs. Ola performs with quartets, quintets and large ensembles and sometimes even as a solo singer.
       These concert-presentations with different lineups have introduced his music to audiences around the world. Among the listeners who enjoy genre diversity, there are fans of jazz, soul, world music and even classical music.

Ola has collaborated with many legendary jazz artists such as Diane Reeves, Al Jarreau, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack, Patti Labelle. Diana Krall shared the stage at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Ola Onabule is not only a singer-songwriter, but also a producer, who has said: “In the world of music with ruthless competition, my mantra to survive as a musician has always been 'hands on' and independence. I feel like the creative parts of songwriting, producing and recording are just different stages of the same process."


Villu Veski is one of the best-known Estonian jazz musicians both in Estonia and internationally, who has given concerts in
prestigious concert halls: Tokyo Opera City, Berliner Philharmonie, London Queen Elizabeth Hall and others.

He has participated in important international festivals: Rochester Jazz Festival in New York, Pori Jazz Festival in Finland,
Natt Jazz in Norway, Brussels Jazz Marathon in Belgium, World Saxophone Congress in Montreal and the British Saxophone Congress at the Royal College of Music in London.

Villu's cooperation partners are musicians from the Faroe Islands, Hawaii, Argentina, Spain, India and other special places around the world.
Eivør Pálsdóttir (Faroe Islands), Jan Gunnar Hoff (Norway), Ola Onabule (England), Bobo Stenson (Sweden) Barbara Dennerlein (Germany), Lee Oskar (USA) etc. have been Villu's cooperation partners on stage and in the studio.

He is also a member of Arctic Ensemble Yggdrasil founded by Faroese composer Kristian Blak.
Villu Vesk's best-known ensemble is "NordicSounds", created together with Tiit Kalluste, with which they have given hundreds of concerts and recorded four albums.

Aarne Saluveer is an internationally known Estonian choir conductor and the founder and conductor of the Estonian Television Girls' Choir. He was recently awarded the prize of the Estonian Music Council on the International Music Day for his important and outstanding activity in the musical life.
Several generations of well-known musicians have grown up under Aarne Saluveer's

Prize of the Estonian Music Council  

PAST CONCERTS

JAN GUNNAR HOFF - Norway   VILLU VESKI - Estonia

GOING NORTH

Arvo Pärt Centre     December 7th 17.00


Jan Gunnar Hoff and Villu Veski first met a year ago. After the first concert, which took place in Skjerstad Church in northern Norway, the musicians discovered that their musical taste, sound culture and attitude towards music coincided so much that they decided to start a collaboration and to date have given two more concerts in Norway.

The concert at the Arvo Pärt Centre on December 7th is the duo Jan Gunnar Hoff & Villu Veski's first full-length concert in Estonia.  

Jan Gunnar Hoff has been active as a professional jazz pianist and keyboardist since 1979. As an artist and co-leader, he has
released 23 albums including 4 solo piano recordings on the US Grammy-winning label 2L.

In 2014 he received the Buddy-prize, the highest distinction in Norwegian jazz.

Hoff is a Steinway Artist and he has played concerts in cities such as Tokyo, New York, London, Istanbul, LA.

Jan Gunnar Hoff's compositions have been performed in his band projects with jazz greats such as Mike Stern, Pat Metheny and Maria João, and several of Hoff ́s larger works have been recorded. Hoff has collaborated with Alex Acuña and bassist Per Mathisen in a trio since 2008 and recorded two albums and a DVD in LA with this trio.

Jan Gunnar Hoff works as a professor at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø and at UiA in Kristiansand.


Villu Veski is one of the best-known Estonian jazz musicians both in Estonia and internationally, who has given concerts in
prestigious concert halls: Tokyo Opera City, Berliner Philharmonie, London Queen Elizabeth Hall and others.

He has participated in important international festivals: Rochester Jazz Festival in New York, Pori Jazz Festival in Finland,
Natt Jazz in Norway, Brussels Jazz Marathon in Belgium, World Saxophone Congress in Montreal and the British Saxophone Congress at the Royal College of Music in London.

Villu's cooperation partners are musicians from the Faroe Islands, Hawaii, Argentina, Spain, India and other special places around the world.
Eivør Pálsdóttir (Faroe Islands), Jan Gunnar Hoff (Norway), Ola Onabule (England), Bobo Stenson (Sweden) Barbara Dennerlein (Germany), Lee Oskar (USA) etc. have been Villu's cooperation partners on stage and in the studio.

He is also a member of Arctic Ensemble Yggdrasil founded by Faroese composer Kristian Blak.
Villu Vesk's best-known ensemble is "NordicSounds", created together with Tiit Kalluste, with which they have given hundreds of concerts and recorded four albums.