Radio de Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born September 11, 1935 in Paide, Estonia), (IPA: [??r?v? ?pær?t]) is Estonia's most renowned composer, working in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions that is also influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz,[1] but fits a European-American post-modernism rather than an example of "world music".[2] Continuing struggles with Soviet officials led him to emigrate in 1980 with his wife and their two sons. Pärt lived first in Vienna, where he took Austrian citizenship; and then he re-located to Berlin where he still lives.[3]