Aaro Pertmann has written "Salameri" (The Secret Sea), op. 49, for us.

Aaro Pertmann studied music theory at the Georg Ots Music School in Tallinn and at the same time composition under Alo Põldmäe.
In 1996, Pertmann graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in composition as a student of Eino Tamberg. In 2008, he graduated in history at the University of Tartu's Open University. Currently he is a music teacher at the Tallinna Täiskasvanute Gümnaasiumi (Tallinn Old Town Adult Gymnasium).
Pertmann's works have been performed by, among others, the Girls' Choir Ellerhein, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Nõmme City Orchestra, the Tallinn Saxophone Quartet, the New Tallinn Trio, the cellist Pärt Tarvas, the pianists Mati Mikalai and Martti Raide, the saxophonist Virgo Veldi, the harpist Tatjana Lepnurm, the soprano Pille Lill, the baritone Villu Valdmaa. His music has been presented in several places in Estonia, mainly on occasion of the Estonian Music Days Festival.
Pertmann's choral work "Magnificat" won the III prize at the Estonian Female Song Society's competition for new choral songs in 1997. In 2001, "Serenade" was awarded the III prize at the composition contest Sinfonia Baltica organized by Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Riga. "Meetings in the Dreams" got the III prize at the contest for new organ pieces organized by the Pärnu Organ Festival and the Tallinn Organ Festival in 2007. Pertmann's Piano Sonatina No. 3 reached among finalists at the Maurice Ravel International Composition Contest in Bergamo (Italy) in 2016, in the category of works for solo intrument.
In recent years, the composer has often cooperated with the Pille Lill Music Fund. His piano trio "Masks of the Soul" was performed in 2015 at the concerts organised by PLMF and dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Estonian Composers' Union.
Aaro Pertmann: "Presently, tendencies towards impressionism characterise my music. I have also tried to associate my music to Estonian folk music and Estonian national culture in general. I have searched world music to find something that underbears my comprehension about good music and life as such. At this point the keywords would be Schnittke, Shostakovitch, Silvestrov, Rihm. Mahler and especially Schubert from among earlier composers".