Biography
TÕNU KÕRVITS (1969) graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
(1994, composition with Raimo Kangro). His work spans both chamber and
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symphonic genres, contains incidental music for puppet animations and cartoons,
plus arrangements and orchestrations of popular music. Music of Tõnu Kõrvits is
filled with highly poetical imagery. It varies from gentle and fragile sound paintings
to dramatic orchestral textures, full of vivacity and passion. Composer’s heedful
treatment of melodic lines is combined with well-considered timbre choice. Last
years Oriental melodic styles and Estonian folk song are reflected in his work.
Tõnu Kõrvits is Laureate of Heino Eller Music Award (2001). In 2003 his orchestra
piece Eldorado won III Prize at International Lepo Sumera Composition Contest
for Young Composers. In 2002, Tõnu Kõrvits received the Young Cultural Figure
Award of the President of the Republic’s Cultural Foundation, and in 2004 the
Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
In 2007 he was awarded the Annual Music Prize of the Estonian Music Council
for his contribution to Estonian orchestral music.
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