Arvo Pärt - famous and unknown

On 22 May Arvo Pärt will be presented with the Léonie Sonning Music Prize at a concert with the DR Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the DR Danish National Choir. To mark the occasion an exhibition on the Estonian composer’s music and life is being staged in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Gallery, Store Strandstræde 18, Copenhagen.

The Estonian Ambassador to Denmark, Meelike Palli, will open the exhibition on 29 April at 15.00. The exhibition poster describes Arvo Pärt as both famous and unknown. He is well-known amongst musical experts but probably not famous among the general public.