Andres Uibo

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Andres Uibo (2011)

Andres Uibo (born April 16, 1956 in Kivi-Vigala , Rapla County ) is an Estonian composer, organist and university professor.

Life

Andres Uibo studied at the Estonian Academy of Music , the State University of Music in Tallinn , with Hugo Lepnurm and Lembit Verlin. He completed his studies as organist, conductor and music teacher in 1981. With a scholarship from the city of Lübeck , he continued his education from 1992 to 1994 at the Lübeck Music Academy with Hans Gebhard.

Since 1980 he has given concerts in Estonia and other European countries, as well as in Japan. So he took part twice in the International Organ Festival in Tokyo. In 1987 he founded the Tallinn International Organ Festival, of which he is the artistic director. He is also the artistic director of the summer festival in Suure-Jaani , which has been taking place since 1998 and is dedicated to the Estonian composer Artur Kapp , who was born there . Uibo publishes his organ works. Together with Tiit Koha he published the work “Historical Estonian Church Organs”, which was also published in German. Since 1994 he has been teaching at the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn.

Andres Uibo has released CDs with his own works, including “Apocalypsys Somphony”, recorded in February 2006 on the Walcker organ of the Riga Cathedral with his organ compositions from 1993 to 2005, and “Three Choral Meditations”. He also recorded works by other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach. He names Bach, his compatriots Arvo Pärt and Erkki-Sven Tüür , whose entire work he premiered, as sources of inspiration for his compositional work , but also composers of the Romantic era. He is a member of the Estonian Organ Society and the Estonian Composers Union.

He has felt particularly close to the city of Lübeck since his training at the music college. In June 2007 he participated in the Buxtehude festival year on the occasion of the 300th birthday of the baroque composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude with the performance of Buxtehudes, Arvo Pärt and his own works in Lübeck Cathedral .

Awards

Andres Uibo has been honored with a number of Estonian cultural awards. In 2001 he received an award from the Estonian President. For “Then I saw”, the first part of his “Apocalypsis Symphony”, he received first prize in the Estonian composition competition “New Organ Composition” and the audience award in 2003.

Works (selection)

  • Three chorale meditations for organ (eres 1929)
  • Prelude (piano) (eres 2743)
  • Star of Bethlehem (guitar) (eres 2866)
  • Bach im Spiegel (Vl / Klav) (eres 2875)
  • Bach im Spiegel (Vc. / Klav) (eres 2876)
  • Light and shadow (organ 4ms) (eres 2878)
  • In your kingdom (women, male choir) (eres 3506)
  • Apocalypsis Symphony (eres 2856)
  • Petlemma Täht
  • Antiphon (choral composition)

Publications

  • Historic Estonian church organs (Eesti orelid), Eres edition, Lilienthal / Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-87204-408-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Concerts in Lübeck Cathedral in 2007
personal data
SURNAME Uibo, Andres
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uibo, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian composer, organist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vigala , Estonian SSR