29.08 Hopner House at 7 PM
Oksana Sinkova (flute), Madis Kari (clarinet),
Neeme Ots (trumpet), Marko Martin (piano)
Programme: Saint-Saëns, H. Kareva, R. Kangro, M. Kuulberg etc.
Tickets 12€/8€
OKSANA SINKOVA
has obtained her Bachelor’s degree cum laude (Prof. N. Punder, M. Helin and I. Sneibis) and defended her Master’s degree at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). She complemented her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (2004 – 2005) and at the Doctoral level of EAMT (2006-2011). O. Sinkova has participated in several masterclasses of well-known flutists (M. Helin, M. Järvi, P. Gallois, R. Greiss-Armin etc.). She is working as a guest concert master of the Narva Symphony Orchestra flute group since 1999 and she has been the concert master of Vanemuine Theatre’s flute group (2000-2008) and a member of the National Opera Estonia Symphony Orchestra’s flute group (2008-2011). O. Sinkova has won several international and national competitions like Grand Prix at the Estonian Music School’s Competition (1997), EAMT and Sibelius Academy J. S. Bach Competition (1998), first prize at the Yamaha Competition (1999), at the National Bach Competition (2000) and she has also been a finalist at the Con Brio 2000 and International Andrejs Jurjāns Competition (Riga, 2001) as well as a laureate of the International Competition Pacem in Terris (Bayreuth, 2005) etc. She has been awarded the PLMF award “Young Musician 2008”. O. Sinkova has numerously performed at solo concerts and as a soloist in front of several orchestras in Estonia and abroad, with the Swedish string orchestra Camerata Nordica she has been a part of concert tours in Italy, Sweden and Wales. She has been invited to perform at festivals in Italy, Slovakia and Czech and she has given performances at several festivals in Estonia. Her solo repertoire includes virtuous flute music from world’s music treasury. O. Sinkova is working as a professor at EAMT from 2008.
MADIS KARI
is one of his generation’s most distinguished clarinettists, who has studied at Georg Ots School of Music and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He has furthered his knowledge in London, where during his studies at the Royal College of Music he won the Frederick Thurston annual clarinettist award (1997) and the Senior Exhibitioner scholarship. In cooperation with the pianist Marko Martin they won the III Prize at the UK Howarth Young Clarinettist Competition (1998). M. Kari has worked in Richmond Chamber Symphony Orchestra as a concert master of the clarinet group and as a piano teacher in different schools in London and its vicinity. From 2002, he is working in the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra as an assistant concert master of the clarinet group and he is teaching in Tallinn Music High School. M. Kari is constantly giving concerts all over Estonia and he is an expected performer at the Tallinn Chamber Music Festival and Tallinn Winter Festival. He has represented Estonia in the World Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris and he is taking part of Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Nyyd Ensemble projects. M. Kari is a PLMF Music Trust scholar.
NEEME OTS
began his studies at the age of six under the guidance of his father, dots. Aavo Ots and he has defended a bachelor’s degree at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (2011). The studies continued at the same place at the masters’ level, where he furthered his skills in the context of an Erasmus program during 2013 in Madrid. N. Ots has taken part of the master courses of several distinguished trumpet pedagogues and he has been awarded with several prizes at competitions in Estonia and abroad. Chamber concerts have brought him together with such reputed interprets as M. Voites, M. Palm, A. Teemets, I. Zahharenkova etc. N. Ots has been a soloist in front of several well-known orchestras, he has been invited to perform as a soloist at several festivals and he has cooperated with such outstanding conductors as J.-P. Saraste, K. Järvi, L. Segerstam, M. Lehtinen etc. He has been a concert master of the trumpet group in several different youth orchestras with which he has performed in Estonia and abroad. In 2015, his first CD “Baroque Pictures” was released in cooperation with the organ player Tiia Tenno.
MARKO MARTIN
is one of the most distinguished Estonian pianists of his generation. M. Martin has learned the piano in Tallinn Music High School, Estonian Academy of Music and Theater and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has been rewarded with many prizes and awards, taken part of multiple master classes, he has been a soloist in front of many orchestras and given concerts in Estonia, Latvia, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom. His pianism is characterized by the captivating harmony of energy and lyricism, especially in the creation of Liszt, Brahms and Schubert. He is also recognized as a performer of 20th century music. He has released two CD-s featuring musical compositions of Schubert and Liszt and a CD featuring Eduard Tubin’s violin music with the violinist Sigrid Kuulmann-Martin. From 2002, he is working as a professor in EAMT. He is a grantee of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians and PLMF.
