Oriri (2025)

Oriri – Latin for “to rise,” “to emerge.”
This piece is dedicated to the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, in reflection of Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday.

The first spark of this piece came from an image of a garden. A place where time doesn’t apply. Something between childhood and eternity. There was no clear path leading there – only an inner call. It wasn’t a return or a memory, but a movement forward – a gate that opens only when one stops asking.

It is a place where life and beauty don’t need explanation. A kind of peace that isn’t silence, but something alive, pulsing, present.

That image feels even more vital today. There are moments when one must stand for what is fragile but real. For what creates peace.

And perhaps that beauty already lives within us. Like a memory of something we’ve known before birth. Something that comes from far away and carries a quiet light within us from the very beginning.