AFEKT Tallinn: MUSIKFABRIK - HEART BLOWING

Christine Chapman, horn
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Lucy Humphris, trumpet
Stephen Menotti, trombone
Maxime Morel, tuba

With the program HEART BLOWING – THE HEART BLOWS, the flagship of contemporary music, Ensemble Musikfabrik, in collaboration with the festivals AFEKT, ARĒNA, and New Music Dublin, presents world and Estonian premieres by composers Krõõt-Kärt Kaev, Jānis Petraškevičs, Ailís Ní Ríain, and Georges Aperghis.

Founded in 1990 and based in Cologne, Ensemble Musikfabrik has become one of Europe’s leading laboratories for contemporary music. The ensemble continuously commissions and creates new works, exploring the intersections of music, theatre, and technology, and working closely with composers and artists from around the world.
Musikfabrik and AFEKT share a long-standing collaboration, through which many works by Estonian composers have entered the ensemble’s regular repertoire.

Programme

Ailís Ní Ríain -  and still it breathes…(2025) (* world premiere) for brass quartet

Krõõt-Kärt Kaev – CH (2018) (** Estonian premiere) for solo horn

Krõõt-Kärt Kaev – Undulation (2024) (** Estonian premiere) for solo trombone

Jānis Petraškevičs, Slēptā gaisma (Hidden Light) (* world premiere) for brass quartet

Georges Aperghis, Heart Blowing (2023) (** Estonian premiere) for brass quintet

Tickets

€10-20. Booking here.

This performance will also be presented at the ARENA Festival Opening Concert in Riga on 28 October, find out more.