MASS WITH CHANTS
OF ST. BRIDGET’S CONVENT

Glasperlenspiel Music Festival
Sun, July 13th at 11 am, St. John’s church (Jaani Str. 5, Tartu / free entrance)
MASS WITH CHANTS OF ST. BRIDGET’S CONVENT
Triin Käpp (parson), ensemble Heinavanker, St. John’s Church mixed choir (choirmaster Kaisa Kuslapuu), Ene Salumäe (organ), composer, bagpipe-player and conductor Margo Kõlar
Kõlar, Estonian sacred folk songs

Ensemble Heinavanker: Mari-Liis Urb, Ester-Silva Alperten, Kadri Hunt, Anto Õnnis, Tõnis Kaumann, Taniel Kirikal.

Heinavanker, under the direction of composer Margo Kõlar, is a convocation of a few of Estonia’s finest voices for the performance of ageless music ancient to modern. While rooted in liturgical chant and Renaissance polyphony, the group’s repertoire makes room as well for vitalizing arrangements of early Estonian folk hymns and runic songs and sacred works by contemporaries such as Arvo Pärt and Cyrillus Kreek.
In Europe, Heinavanker has been a familiar presence on festival and concert stages and on radio for three decades, and the group has been touring Europe, South America and North America with performances and master classes.
“Margo Kolar’s arrangements aren’t just ethnomusicological curation but exercises in a living music, and the ensemble manages to impart a timeless quality to religious and secular songs alike.” (Early Music Today, March – May 2014)
Heinavanker can be heard on the Harmonia Mundi label (Songs of Olden Times, 2013) and on the group’s website.

Download the detailed program in Estonian and sheet music (PDF, 44 lk)

Organizers:
Peeter Vähi – artistic director
Tiina Jokinen – executive director
Kadri Kiis – producer, accountant
Meeta Vardja – musicologist, editor of festival booklet
Mart Kivisild – design
Olavi Sööt – co-producer, video, logistics
Reno Hekkonens – marketing director, PR
Johannes Vähi – co-producer, webmaster, logistics
Rebeca Birk – social media

Special thanks: Tartu City Government, Urmas Klaas, Triin Käpp, Jana Raud, Ministry of Culture of Estonia, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Canon and Overall, St John’s church, Kaupo Kiis, Kristel Leppik, volunteers

Previous festivals: 2024; 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; Archives: Glasperlenspiel 2003 and 2004