Silmapiir / Skyline for violin and piano or harp (2000)

Katrin Nachtigall – viiul / violin
Liis Jürgens – harf / harp 

Esiettekanne / Premiere @ Pöide kirik / Pöide church June 16th 2019

Silmapiir / Skyline (2000)(premiere 2019)

Where the Two Seas Meet? (2010)

Tõnu Kõrvits Muusikale / For Music for female choir 

For Music (Byron)
THERE be none of Beauty's daughters   
With a magic like thee;   
And like music on the waters   
Is thy sweet voice to me:   
When, as if its sound were causing  
The charmèd ocean's pausing,   
The waves lie still and gleaming,   
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:   
  
And the midnight moon is weaving   
Her bright chain o'er the deep;  
Whose breast is gently heaving,   
As an infant's asleep:   
So the spirit bows before thee,   
To listen and adore thee;   
With a full but soft emotion,   
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

Tõnu Kõrvits Muusikale / For Music

Naerusui arm

Oma teekonda helide maailma avab helilooja ja muusikapedagoog MARGO KÕLAR. Saatesarja autor on INDREK PETERSOO (F: Saale Kreen)

Laudate Dominum: Pirita kloostri laulud

SCENE VII_Conquest of Repose

Exquisite What! is a collective web / project based on the idea of Exquisite Cadaver: following the surrealist practice a group of people is assembling a dilatable music/video piece divided into scenes... 
more info here: 
http://exquisitewhat.tumblr.com/

scene Hosted by Katie English 
Conquest of Repose' - it's a line from a Paul Klee book where he talks about the dismembering and regrouping of the whole

contributors: 
Katie English ch. 1. Enrico Coniglio: Chapter 2; ch 3 by Frederic Oberland; chapter 4 by Alessio Ballerini:  chapter 5_ Gianmaria Aprile; chapter 6 -Enrico Coniglio's Reprise      

La ventana_n°1_ a photograph BY SABRINA JOY @ thegreatcuddle.com

SCENE VII_Conquest of Repose

Enclosures (No. 41), dur. 20', written 2008 for Trio Scordatura
Set-up: voice, viola, microtonal midi-keyboard & sinewaves
Performed by Bob Gilmore, Alfrun Schmidt & Elisabeth Smalt

Appears on album 'Enclosures'
Ergodos records
https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/enclosures

No 41 Enclosures (2008)

MAV Symphonische Orchester
Dirigiert: László Tihanyi
10.10.2012 Budapest
Varga Judit a 2011-es Zeneszerzöverseny nagyzenekari kategóriájának 2. helyezettje (Képzeletbeli zongoraverseny címü darabjával), számomra szinte tényleg "kortársnak" mondható. Új müvének, az "...alles Fleisch..."-nek a bemutatóját hallhatta a közönség. A müsorfüzetben ugyan inkább fiolzófiai dolgokon elmélkedik, a darab szerkezetéröl így nem sokat árul el, de ez esetben azt hiszem, erre semmi szükség nem is lett volna. 
Talán nem merészség kijelenteni, hogy az est egyik csúcsát jelentette müve (számomra mindenképpen). A csöndböl selymesen kiemelkedö, majd végül oda visszahulló zene tele volt érzelmekkel, csúcsponttal és visszahullással, szebbnél szebb hangzásokkal, ha úgy tetszik harmóniával, ami mellett azonban vagy elbújva vagy kiemelkedve mindig megjelent a diszharmónia is, viszont összességében egy nagyon szép és élvezetes
müvet hallhattunk. Nem volt ugyan túl hosszú, mégis megjelent benne egyfajta romantikus zenekari kitörés és a modern zenei gondolkodás is. Az élményhez szükség
volt azonban a MÁV Zenekarra is, akik remekül játszottak, a vonóskar pedig egységesen, kifejezöen zenélt.

Judit VARGA: ...alles Fleisch...

Music for Renard by Contrast Eye (Promotional video 2011)

Liis Jürgens (Viira) (b. April 7, 1983) is a composer, harpist, improviser and experimental animation maker. Her compositions are characterized by figurative thinking and translating the visual into music.
● In 2009 she graduated with a MA in harp performance, under Eda Peäske, from the Estonian Academy of Theatre and Music. At same, she furthered her training in composition with Helena Tulve and studied electroacoustic music with Margo Kõlar.
● She has studied improvisation with Taavi Kerikmäe and Anto Pett; she performs improvised music on a regular basis. 
● She has composed works for symphony orchestra, choir, big and small ensembles, vocalists and solo instruments. In addition to Estonia, Liis Viira’s works have been performed in Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Italy, USA and Austria. 
● She has performed her compositions herself on harp and piano.
● At present Liis Viira is a freelance composer and harpist. She is a member of unique sounding ensemble Una Corda (three plucked string instruments: harp, kannel and harpsichord) and participates in many other solo and chamber music projects. 
● Her orchestra experience includes playing principal and second harp with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (2007-2017), and principal harp with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kymi Sinfonietta and Estonian Festival Orchestra. 
● Viira studied 2012–2015 at Estonian Academy of Arts animation department and since autumn 2017 she is studying composition (with Helena Tulve and Toivo Tulev) in practice based PhD at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre to go further with her interest of developing musical and visual compositions simultaneously.

Silmapiir / Skyline (2000)(premiere 2019)

Liis Jürgens

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