Tõnu Kõrvits was born on April 9, 1969 in Tallinn. He graduated from Alo Põldmäe's composition class in Tallinn Music Secondary School. In 1994 Tõnu Kõrvits graduated from Estonian Music Academy as a student of Raimo Kangro and is presently continueing his studies for Master degree with Jaan Rääts.
While still a student at the Music Academy, many of his orchestral pieces were performed at one of the most important events for Estonian music-annual Estonian Music Festival in 1993 "To a man, in Whose Eyes the Brightness of Polaris Sparkled", in 1994 his Symphony and in 1995 "Adagio for Strings". All of them were warmly received in the Estonian music press.
Last year he was chosen to present Estonia at the EBU's "Internationale Rostrum of Composers" held in Paris. In 1995/96 concert season the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra performed one of his latest orchestral works "The Blue Gate". Many of his pieces for guitar have been released in "Antes Edition" in Germany.
The music of Tõnu Kõrvits has been characterized by extraordinary bright animation. Good dramaturgic cognition and fine-coloured orchestration has been pointed out as one of his strong sides.

Here some works to hear in Real Audio or MP3

Concerto semplice for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
Tiit Peterson, Guitar, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Vello Pähn (2000)

Tõnu Kõrvits (1969) a étudié la composition auprès de Raimo Kangro et révéla, dans ses premières oeuvres, un intérêt pour le minimalisme. Il privilégie les tempos lents et la guitare classique pour laquelle il écrit des compositions intéressantes, bien qu'il ­ ou peut­être pour cette raison­même? ­ ne pratique pas cet instrument.

Works/Werke:

I.L.Y.B. (1991) für zwei Gitarren ( ILYB-.mid)

Kiss on the water für zwei Gitarren

Suite für zwei Gitarren

A long Good-Bye (Pikk hüvastijätt) for guitar and piano, written for Kalle Randalu (piano) & Boris Björn Bagger (guitar)

Leihmaterial

Concerto semplice
für Gitarre und Kammerorchester

Symphonie für großes Orchester

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