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# Portland to hold festival dedicated to Arvo Pärt

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By  [Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/)
  ·  January 17, 2017  · [Culture](https://estonianworld.com/category/culture/)
 · 2 minutes of reading

### The US northwestern city of Portland, Oregon, is to hold a music festival dedicated to the works of the most famous Estonian composer and the most performed living composer in the world, Arvo Pärt.

The [festival](http://www.cappellaromana.org/concert-series/arvo-part-festival/)
 will take place 5-12 February and is presented by the Cappella Romana chamber choir.

According to the organisers, the festival features eight live performances of Pärt’s music with chamber music, the complete organ works, a cappella choral works, a late-night performance of the Passio by candlelight, the Missa Syllabica sung in a Latin mass, and a festival finale featuring Pärt’s Te Deum for three choirs, strings, and prepared piano, Da Pacem Domine, and the US premiere of Alleluia-Tropus celebrating St Nicholas.

The live events of the festival will be preceded by a screening of the new film “Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything” at Whitsell Auditorium, NW Film Center.

The Arvo Pärt Festival also features two free public lectures, including “The Words Write My Music,” by Peter Bouteneff, a professor of theology at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York and author of the new book Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence.

On 10 January, the classical music event database, Bachtrack, announced that for the sixth year in a row, Pärt had been given the title of the “world’s [most performed](https://estonianworld.com/culture/arvo-part-worlds-performed-living-composer-sixth-year-running/)
 living composer”.

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Cover: Arvo Pärt awarded with the prestigious Praemium Imperiale by Prince Hitachi in Tokyo on 15 October 2014.

## About The Author

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[Sten Hankewitz](https://estonianworld.com/author/stenhankewitz/)
Sten Hankewitz is a lifelong journalist and the Executive Editor at Estonian World. Having lived in Estonia, Spain, the UK and all around the US, he now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He loves to write and besides working at Estonian World, he [writes books](https://estonianworld.com/culture/the-grand-illusion-estonian-worlds-sten-hankewitz-publishes-a-novel-about-growing-up-in-the-soviet-union/)
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