Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that ...

Thirty-nine years ago, they were a group of singers in Cambridge, England getting together for fun. It wasn't long before their success turned them into the King's Singers. We find the King's Singers ...

Arvo Pärt is one of the most popular, most performed living composers. He's beloved worldwide for his signature sound – a spacious, meditative music that tends to sound timeless. But there's a ...

Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...

You may not know the name, but you've heard his music. Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's alluring, hypnotic "tintinnabuli" ("bell-like") style has resonated with listeners world-wide—the database ...

Not many living composers of the concert-hall variety have carved a niche with the broader public. But Arvo Pärt, Estonian to his core, is certainly among them. In large measure that’s because Mr.