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Percorsi Musicali: “Elis Hallik: Born in Waves”

Working in the field of composition means keeping in mind the sounds that the current time can provide and from this point of view the steps taken are gigantic, since a multitude of composers are looking into the acoustic operation as evidence of a bridge between reality and a sensitive artistic abstraction.
Elis Hallik (1986) is an Estonian composer who consolidated her preparation between Estonia (with Helena Tulve and Toivo Tulev) and Lyon (with Tadini, Pascal and…

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Elis Hallik: Born in Waves

Review from Carme Miró sonograma.org of Hallik’s new album Born in Waves

Estonian composer Elis Hallik’s debut on the Kairos label has an early justification in the recording of Born in Waves. In this sense, the composer comments: “I like to think that the structure can also work as an autonomous energy system, a multidirectional sense of time. Time and ambivalence are the different aspects of the same sound…

Review on Kairos CD Born in Waves

“When listening to contemporary serious music, the audience is always in danger of being disappointed. We expect something radically new that will shake up the ideas of what music is; but if we get it, it’s hard to deal with it and decide whether it’s an innovation or a failure. More often, however, it happens…

Sirp, detsember 22, 2017, Johanna Mängel

Sirp, detsember 22, 2017, Johanna Mängel https://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c5-muusika/uhiskonnatundlik-ja-eksklusiivne-nuudismuusikaaeg/ “In autumn, ERSO premiered Elis Vesik’s orchestral work Punctum concursūs in prospectu or Vanishing Point in the Field of Vision, one of the central themes of which is the perception of time. A unique, airy, and sensitive sound aesthetic may be encountered in Vesik’s well-thought-out search for…

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra in a programme of premières from young Estonian composers

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra in a programme of premières from young Estonian composers 13 April 2015 Gavin Dixon “Two Ladies”, the title of this afternoon’s concert, referred to its two violin soloists, Triin Ruubel and Juta Õunapuu-Mocanita. They, along with the strings of the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, presented a programme of premières from young Estonian composers….

François Mauger, magazine “4’33”, 12.04.2022

François Mauger, magazine “4’33”, 12.04.2022 “Estonian composer Elis Hallik on the way to the trees” Link To become a tree… Such is the dream of the Estonian composer Elis Hallik , or at least the title of one of her works: To become a tree . The Fractales ensemble has just recorded it on its…

«Elis Hallik: Baltic light, in search of timelessness»

ELIS HALLIK: Some Paths Will Always Lead Through the Shadows; Concerto for two violins and string orchestra “Stoicheia”; To Become a Tree; Doch manchmal erhellt sich die Seele, wenn sie frohe Menschen denkt, dunkelgoldene Frühlingstage; Born in Waves; Touching the First Sounds; Impacts; Like a Swan; Above. Sirje Aleksandra Viise, soprano. Juta Ōunapuu-Mocanita and Triin…

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