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SUMMARY:Olga Zaitseva (soprano)\, Michael Hyokun Ha (tenore\, Korea)\, Piia Paemurru (piano)
DESCRIPTION:XII Tallinn Winter Festival 19th – 23rd of February 2019  \nTallinn Town Hall\n21st February at 7pm\nOlga Zaitseva (soprano)\,\nMichael Hyokun Ha (tenore\, Korea)\,\nPiia Paemurru (piano)\nProgramme: Donizetti\, Puccini\, Ponchielli etc\nTickets 12€/7€   \nBUY TICKET:  https://www.piletilevi.ee/eng/tickets/festival/tallinna-talvefestival/olga-zaitseva-michael-hyokun-ha-piia-paemurru-xii-tallinna-talvefestival-winter-festival-2 \nOLGA ZAITSEVA\n has finished from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a bachelor’s degree in the singing class of lect. Pille Lill and prof. Jaakko Ryhäneni and she has attained her master’s degree from the Pedagogy of Interpretation majoring in singing. She has furthered her skills in the master classes of Ingrid Kremling\, Elizabeth Wilke and Yandwiga Rappé in Poland. Zaitseva has won the I prize in the St. Petersburg contest “Song has the face of a woman” (2008)\, spezial prize in the III and VII international contest “Opera\, the soul of mountains” in Poland (2008 and 2012)\, two special prizes in the 2nd National Vocal Contest dedicated to Vello Jürna (2012). In 2015 Olga Zaitseva was given a Crystal Shoe Award from the Estonian Theatre Union for being a “young person in theatre who has accomplished first significant theatrical works” for the performances of Almirena – Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Rinaldo” and Giannetta – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “L’elisir d’amore” (both in Estonian National Opera).\n Her repertoire of opera roles includes Almirena\, Donna\, Mermaid (Händel’s „Rinaldo“)\, Giannetta (Donizetti’s „L’elisir d’amore“)\, II flower girl (Wagner’s „Parsifal“)\, shepherd girl (Ravel „The Child and the Spells“)\, Tebaldo (Verdi „Don Carlo“)\, Frasquita (Bizet „Carmen“)\, Sacerdotessa (Verdi „Aida“)\, Barbarina (Mozart „Le nozze di Figaro“). During a concert performance she has sung the role of Kupava (Rimski-Korsakov „The Snow Maiden“) and the soprano part of Fauré’s Requiem Op. 48. \nMICHAEL HYOKUN HA\n is a South Korean born tenor\, who began his studies in singing at Hanyang University in Seoul and continued his studies at the State University of Music in Freiburg and at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. He has attended master classes with Margreet Honig\, Dame Gwyneth Jones and Rudolf Knoll at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and received further impetus from such Italian maestri as Gianfranco Cecchele\, Nicola Martinucci as well as Mietta Sighele. After receiving his master’s degree in 2012\, he was engaged in the Staatstheater Braunschweig\, where he has performed a variety of roles\, including Nemorino (Donizetti “L’elisir d’amore”)\, Tamino (Mozart “The Magic Flute”)\, Aquilio (Vivaldi “Farnace”)\, Il Duca di Mantova (Verdi “Rigoletto”)\, Canio (Leoncavallo “Pagliacci”)\, Turiddu (Mascagni “Cavalleria rusticana”) etc. In 2017/18 he guested as Nemorino with the Danish National Opera. M. Ha has sung at the UNICEF Gala in Cologne\, Germany and he appeared at the New Year’s Gala of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in January 2018 with famous opera arias. M. Ha is a grant recipient of the Richard Wagner Association and in 2018 he was awarded the “Riccardo Zandonai Prize” for the best interpretation of an aria by the composer of the same name at the “XXV Riccardo Zandonai Competition” in Riva del Garda (Italy). He won the T.O.S.C.A competition in Andora (Italy) the same year. \nPIIA PAEMURRU\n is one of the most valued ensemble partners is Estonia mostly for opera singers\, but concert activity has brought her together with several outstanding musicians like E. Hannan\, R. Achieng\, V. Noreika\, J. Ryhänen\, M. Voites\, M. Palm\, P. Lill\, N. Kurem\, H.-L. Võsa\, O. Kuusik\, A. Saal\, K. Plaas\, M. Melnik\, P. Volmer\, A. Mikk\, R. Soom\, T. Jõks\, H. Lokuta\, P. Püvi\, A. Klas-Fagerlund\, M. Tampere-Bezrodny\, P. Paemurru\, A.-L. Bezrodny\, A. Lend\, V. Vurm etc. She graduated from the Tallinn Con-servatory (prof. Laine Mets\, MA 1999) and in 1986 she began working at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre’s Vocal Department as a piano accompanist. P. Paemurru has often played as a piano soloist and as a part of different ensembles in the Baltics\, Scandinavia\, Germany and Russia. She has been rewarded with the Special Prize for the best piano accompanist at several singing com-petitions\, including five times at the International K. Taev Singing Contest in Pärnu. In cooperation with the Swedish singer Ingegerd Björklund she has recorded two CD-s and a CD with Marje Sink’s Christmas songs has been released with soloists Pille Lill\, Aare Saal and Oliver Kuusik (PLMF\, 2006). \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Oksana Sinkova (flute)\, Ralf Taal (piano)
DESCRIPTION:XII Tallinn Winter Festival 19th – 23rd of February 2019  \nTallinn Town Hall\n20th February 19.00\nOksana Sinkova (flute)\,\nRalf Taal (piano)\nProgramme: Schubert\, Böhm\, Chopin etc\nTickets 12€/7€   \nOKSANA SINKOVA\n is one of the most outstanding flutists in Estonia. She has obtained her Bachelor’s degree cum laude (Prof. Neeme Punder\, Matti Helin and Imants Sneibis) and defended her Master’s degree at the Esto-nian 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 the masterclasses of several well-known flutists (Matti Helin\, Maarika Järvi\, Patrick Gallois\, Renate Greiss-Armin\, Barbara Giesler- Haase\, Moshe Aron Epstein 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). She has also played in the international European Festival Orchestra. O. Sinkova has won several international and national competitions like Estonian children’s music school’s competition (1991)\, All-Soviet Union Compe-tition “Young Virtuoso” (1991)\, Estonian Music School’s Competition (1994\, 1995)\, Grand Prix at the Estonian Music School’s Competition (1997)\, EAMT and Sibelius Academy Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (1998)\, first prize at the Estonian 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). 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\, Slo-vakia and Czech and she has given performances at Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Tallinn Winter Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival etc. Her solo repertoire includes virtuous flute music from world’s music treasury. O. Sinkova has been a jury member of different competitions and from 2008 she is working as a professor at EAMT. \nRALF TAAL\n is one of his generations most recognized pianists. He has graduated from Tallinn Music High School and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). He has successfully taken part of several competitions earning the 1st Prize at the young pianists’ competition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Edvard Grieg in 1993 and a special prize at the Schubert International Pianists’ Competition for being the youngest finalist in 1995. R. Taal has performed as a soloist with almost all Estonian orchestras cooperating with such outstanding conductors as Eri Klas\, Paavo Järvi\, Anu Tali etc. and he has given numerous solo concerts. He is also a valued ensemble partner for several vocal and instrumental soloists including Helen Lokuta\, Oksana Sinkova\, Pille Lill\, Mati Palm etc. R. Taal is working as a pedagogue at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and in 2011\, he was rewarded with the annual award of the Estonian Culture Endowment’s Music (Sound Design) Fund. In 2014\, he released his solo album with Chopin’s piano music “Magic of Sound” (Estonian Record Productions). \nBUY TICKET: https://www.piletilevi.ee/eng/tickets/festival/tallinna-talvefestival/oksana-sinkova-ralf-taal-xii-tallinna-talvefestival-winter-festival-273397/?&design=piletile
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SUMMARY:Sopranos Pille Lill and Kristina Vähi\, Kristina Kriit (violin)\, Neeme Ots (trumpet)\, Mikk Langeproon (accordion)\,  Tiia Tenno (organ)
DESCRIPTION:XII Tallinn Winter Festival 19th – 23rd of February 2019  \nFestival Opening Concert\nSwedish Michael’s Church (Rüütli 9)\n19th February 15.00\nSopranos Pille Lill and Kristina Vähi\, Kristina Kriit (violin)\,\nNeeme Ots (trumpet)\, Mikk Langeproon (accordion)\,\nTiia Tenno (organ)\nProgramme: Vivaldi\, Händel\, Lindberg etc\nFree entrance   \n  \nPILLE LILL\nis one of the most well-known opera singers in Estonia today. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT) with two professions – choir conducting and opera singing. She continued her studies in the master’s program of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. J. Peters) and defended her master’s degree at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. L. Linko-Malmio). In 2004-2011 she furthered her skills in the context of doctoral studies at EAMT (Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen) and in 2005-2006 in the lied class of the University of Karlsruhe (professors Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmuth Höll). In addition\, she has taken part of several world-famous musicians’ master classes (Elisabeth Söderström\, Irwin Gage\, Emma Kirkby\, Mauriz Sillem\, Wilma Vernocchi etc.) P. Lill has performed as an opera\, oratorio and chamber singer in many countries. She has sung the lead role in close to 30 operas and she has cooperated with several reputed conductors. She has done many recordings for the Estonian National Broadcasting and her voice is perpetuated on a number of CD-s. P. Lill has been rewarded with the Big Dipper award for Best Female Singer (1996)\, she has been a laureate for Georg Ots Prize (2002)\, she has been a grantee of the Wagner Society Scholarship (1998) and a 3rd class honoree of the Order of Bishop Platon (2005). She has also been awarded with the UNICEF Bluebird Award (2009)\, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award (2014)\, 4th class Order of the White Star (2016) and Esther of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia of Estonia. P. Lill was a vocal teacher in EAMT from 1997 to 2013 (assistant professor from 2003) and she has given master classes in many countries (Germany\, Russia\, Finland\, Belarus\, Latvia etc.) P. Lill was a board member of Estonian Composers’ Union from 2003-2009\, she is a board member of the Estonian Chamber of Culture and the Finno-Estonian Culture Fund. She is also the founder and creative director of the Pille Lill Music Foundation from 2003. \nKRISTINA VÄHI\nhas received accolades as a soloist in operas\, operettas and musicals. She graduated from the G. Ots Music School (teacher Mare Jõgeva) and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre\, receiving both her bachelor’s and master’s degree in opera singing (teacher Riina Airenne\, prof. Tamara Novitšenko). K. Vähi additionally studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and taken part in many master classes (Eva Märtson\, Gerhard Kahry\, Christina Deutekom\, Rudolf Piernay\, Ingrid Kremling\, Judith Beckman\, Matti Pelo\, Monika Hauswalter). She won 1st Prize at the Klaudia Taev Competition for Young Opera Singers (1996). Between 2006-2013 K. Vähi worked as a soloist at the Estonian National Opera. She has also sung in performances of the Vanemuine Theatre\, the EAMT Opera Studio and the Kuressaare Opera Days; she has been invited to perform at festivals and the musicals of Smithbridges Production and Vanemuine Theatre. Since 1997 she has been a soloist of the Operetta Scretta creative union. Her roles include: Adina (Donizetti „L’elisir d’amore“)\, Baroness (Lortzing „The Poacher“)\, Ännchen (Weber „The Marksman“)\, Oscar (Verdi „A Masked Ball“)\, Mozart roles Zerlina\, First Dame and Despina („Don Giovanni“\, „Magic Flute“\, „Così fan tutte“); from Menotti operas Lucy\, Monica and Miss Pinkerton („Telephone“\, „Medium“\, „The Old Maid and the Thief“); from Rossini operas Fanny and Clorinda („The Bill of Marriage“\, „Cinderella“); Nedda (Leoncavallo „Clowns“)\, Ninetta (Prokofjev „The Love for Three Oranges“)\, Luise (Aints “Rehepapp”)\, Adele and Cagliari (Strauss „The Bat“\, “Viennese Blood”)\, Lisa and Stasi (Kálmán „Countess Mariza“\, “Silva”)\, Damon (Händel „Acis and Galatea“)\, Maria (Leigh „Man of La Mancha“)\, Soulgirl and Carlotta (Webber “Jesus Christ Superstar”\, “Phantom of the Opera”) etc. K. Vähi currently works as a freelance opera soloist. \nKRISTINA KRIIT\nhas obtained her master’s degree in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny\, 2004) and furthered her skills with Prof. Igor Bezrodny\, Eduard Schmieder\, Pavel Vernikov and Hermann Krebbers. In addition\, she has studied in Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg (2001-2002\, Prof. Hermann Krebbers). K. Kriit has taken part in several international competitions\, from which the most important are Heino Eller Competition in Tallinn (special prize\, 1996) and Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poland (Lublin\, 1997). K. Kriit is a valued contemporary musician and she has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in almost every country in Europe. She has twice been a scholar of the reputed Holland Music Sessions. In 2005 K. Kriit was one of the founders of Tallinn String Trio and in 2009 trio “Madrigal” with flute and piano. She is a professor and a PhD student in EAMT (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny) and a II concert master of the Symphony Orchestra in the Estonian National Opera. \nNEEME OTS\nbegan 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. \nMIKK LANGEPROON\nbegun his accordion studies at 8 years old at the Tallinn Music School and graduated with honors from the G. Ots Tallinn Music School (teacher Tiina Välja)\, where he was rewarded with G. Ots School’s silver badge. At the same time\, he graduated from Kadriorg German High School with a golden medal. From the autumn of 2014 he has been furthering his skills at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. Matti Rantanen). In years 2017-18 he also participated in student exchange by prof. Janne Rättyä in Austria\,Graz. M. Langeproon has repeatedly been awarded at the competition “Best Young Musician”\, he is the winner of the older age group of Estonian Young Accordionists’ Competition (2014) and he has obtained 2nd place at the International Vilnius Accordion Competition. He has been chosen as the best instrumentalist of Tallinn Music School (2011) and as the most outstanding student of the accordion department of G. Ots Tallinn Music School three years in a row. In 2013 he was awarded with the Maxima Future Talent title in the music\, arts and culture category. A special prize of the Round Table Competition in 2014 and a successful performance in the TV contest “Classic Stars 2016” are also worth mentioning. M. Langeproon is active as a soloist as well as a chamber musician and he has performed in several reputed concert halls in Estonia and abroad\, in Classic Radio’s live broadcasting and on Estonian Television. \nTIIA TENNO\ngraduated from Tartu Heino Eller Music School (teacher A. Antson) studying piano and Estonian Academy of Music and Theater (prof. H. Lepnurm\, I. Maidre\, A. Uibo) as well as from Herford School of Church Music studying organ (Germany). In addition\, she has furthered her skills in Hamburg School of Music (prof. Wolfgang Zerer) and she has taken part of many distinguished organists’ master classes (B. Haas\, W. Zerer\, J. Laukvik\, A. Marconi\, P. van Dijk\, E. Kooimann). From 1996 T. Tenno is working in Tallinn St. John’s Church as an organist and a choir leader and she is one of the founders of The Organ Fund of St. John’s Church and a board member there. She has also worked as an organist-choir leader in Schnathorst Church in Germany and Lunde Chruch in Norway and she has been the department leader of the church music department of the Estonian Institute of Theology (2004-2007). T. Tenno has cooperated with multiple outstanding interprets (Pille Lill\, Oksana Sinkova\, Neeme Ots\, Toomas Vavilov\, Arete Teemets etc.) and she has given many solo concerts in Germany\, Finland\, Sweden\, Norway and Estonia. She has given multiple performances at Tallinn International Organ Festival\, Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival etc. As a soloist\, T. Tenno has cooperated with the Finnish-Estonian Baroque Orchestra and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. A lot of the music that is played by her is on the recordings of Estonian Public Broadcasting and many other collection CD-s (“Estonian Valuable Organs” – Tallinn St. John’s church organ (publisher ERES\, 2000); “Baroque Pictures” with trumpetist Neeme Ots (publisher Tanel Klesment\, 2015). T. Tenno is a member of the Estonian Organ Society from 1999 and a member of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians from 2014.  \n 
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SUMMARY:Duo Vlorent Xhafaj (cello\, Albania/France) and Irina Zahharenkova (piano\, Estonia/Finland)
DESCRIPTION:2.09 Hopner House at 7 PM\nDuo Vlorent Xhafaj (cello\, Albania/France) and\n Irina Zahharenkova (piano\, Estonia/Finland)\n Programme: Schumann\, Saint-Saëns\, Sibelius etc\nTickets 12€/8€ \n  \nVLORENT XHAFAJ\n began his cello studies at the age of 6. At the age of sixteen\, he won the 1st prize at the “Young Talents” competition and went to France a few weeks after that\, continuing his studies under the guidance of V. Marin-Queyras at the Regional Conservatoire in Paris\, which he graduated in 2003 with an award-winning diploma. During the same period\, he took master classes from recognized musicians which included the Alban Berg Quartet\, Philippe Muller\, Enrico Dindo\, Tilmann Wick\, Miklos Perenyi\, Mario Brunello. In 2004 he was accepted into the class of Anne Gastinel at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon\, where he finished with a master’s degree and a first prize in cello and chamber music. He was a member of the world’s best youth orchestras\, such as Pacific Symphony Orchestra\, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra\, Lucerne Festival Orchestra Jugend\, as principal cello in 2007 and 2009\, playing with conductors like Valery Gergiev\, Pierre Boulez\, Herbert Blomstedt\, Esa-Pekka Salonen\, Sir Neville Marriner etc. As a chamber musician V. Xhafaj has performed in such concert halls as Ircam (Paris)\, Philarmonie (Koln)\, KKL (Luzern)\, Salle Molière (Lyon)\, Cité de la Musique (Paris)\, Palais des Congres (Strasbourg)\, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)\, Suntory Hall (Tokyo)\, Teatro Coliseo (Buenos Aires)\, Teatro Bradesco (Sao Paulo) etc. His chamber music partners include Tedi Papavrami\, Boris Brovtsyn\, Francois-Frederic Guy\, Ilya Gringolts\, Akiko Suwanai\, Nikita Boriso Glebsky\, Alexander Kobrin etc. V. Xhafaj plays regularly with such groups as the Ensemble Intercontemporain\, the Chamber Orchestra of the Auvergne\, the Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon and the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande\, Royal Philarmonic Orchestra\, Orchestre Philarmonique de Strasbourg. He is supported by the Societe Generale Patronage Musical. \nIRINA ZAHHARENKOVA\nbegan her musical studies with her mother at the age of four. She graduated from the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Master of Music\, 2003)\, where her piano teachers were Prof. Mare Ots and Lilian Semper. She entered the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as an exchange student in 2002 and then as a degree student in 2003\, studying in the piano class of Dr. Hui-Ying Liu- Tawaststjerna. Irina has also participated in the master classes of András Schiff\, Victor Merzhanov\, Stephen Kovacevich and Angela Hewitt. In addition to the piano she has pursued advanced courses in harpsichord (degree from EAMT\, Prof. Maris Valk-Falk)\, organ\, chemistry\, as well as Estonian and Finnish philology. Irina has won first prizes in many major international piano competitions such as the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig\, 2006)\, Alessandro Casagrande Competition (Italy\, 2006) and Georges Enescu Competition (Romania\, 2005). Irina Zahharenkova has also been a laureate as a harpsichordist in the Prague Spring Competition in the Czech Republic (2005) and in the Festival van Vlaanderen competition\n in Belgium (2004) as a fortepianist. An extremely versatile musician\, Irina frequently performs on the piano and harpsichord in solo recitals\, chamber music concerts and as a soloist with orchestras.
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/duo-vlorent-xhafaj-tsello-albaania-prantsusmaa-ja-irina-zahharenkova-klaver/
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SUMMARY:Duo Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) and Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello\, Finland)
DESCRIPTION:[/column]\n\n1.09 Town Hall at 7 PM\nDuo Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) and\nJan-Erik Gustafsson (cello\, Finland)\nProgramme: Glière\, Kodály etc. \nTickets 15€/12€ \n  \nANNA-LIISA BEZRODNY\nwas born into a family of renowned musicians in Moscow. Already at the age of two she began her violin studies with her parents\, and at the age of nine she began her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki\, in the class of her parents: Prof. Igor Bezrodny and Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny. Her later years took her to London\, resulting in winning the most prestigious award in Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, the Gold Medal (2006)\, previously won by masters such as baritone Bryn Terfel and cellist Jaqueline du Pre. Over the years Anna-Liisa Bezrodny has performed as a soloist with the London\, Helsinki\, Vilnius\, Jena and Turku Philharmonic\, Estonian National\, Riga and Moscow Symphony Orchestra TV6 and several other symphonic orchestras as well as Gewandhaus Bach Orchestra\, Georgian\, Keskipohjanmaa (Finnish)\, Zurich\, Madrid\, Tallinn and other chamber orchestras. Concerts have taken place in such world-famous concert venues as Moscow Conservatoire Great Hall\, St. Petersburg Philharmonic\, Finlandia-talo\, Royal Festival\, Barbican\, Wigmore and Cadogan Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Cologne Philharmonie etc. Cooperation has been done with several conductors (Sir Colin Davis\, Leif Segerstam\, Paavo Järvi\, Sian Edwards\, Eri Klas\, Nikolay Alekseyev\, Arvo Volmer\, Juha Kangas\, Paul Mägi\, Tibor Boganyi\, Robin O’Neil\, Mihkel Kütson\, etc.). A.-L. Bezrodny has successfully taken part in many international competitions obtaining several awards and prizes including Martin Music \nFinnish cellist Jan-Erik Gustafsson is one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation\, who began his studies with Markku Luolajan-Mikkola at the West Helsinki Music Institute. He studied further with Mikhail Homitser and Frans Helmerson at the Edberg-Musikinstitut in Stockholm\, completing his soloist diploma examination in 1992. At the age of fifteen\, J-E. Gustafsson placed well in the EBU Young Musician competition in Copenhagen\, and since then he has performed world wide both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has appeared with numerous distinguished orchestras such as the London SO\, the Bournemouth SO\, the Netherlands RSO\, the Danish RSO\, the Swedish RSO and the Stockholm Philharmonic\, the Hong Kong Philharmonic\, the Jerusalem SO\, the Washington National SO\, the New York and Vienna Chamber Orchestras\, Camerata Bern and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared with nearly all Finnish orchestras. In 1994\, Jan-Erik Gustafsson signed a contract with the American YCA agency. Consequently\, he regularly gives solo recitals on tour in the USA\, Europe and the Far East at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York\, the Kennedy Center in Washington\, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Brahms Hall in Vienna. At chamber music festivals worldwide\, he has collaborated with Pinchas Zukerman\, Ralf Gothóni\, Leif-Ove Andsnes\, Paavali Jumppanen and Arto Satukangas. Jan-Erik Gustafsson has made several recordings for Ondine. His disc featuring Cello Sonatas by Szymanowski\, Kodály and Schnittke was nominated Record of the Year. Jan-Erik Gustafsson is the director of Loviisa Sibelius Festival and teaches as well at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki\, Finland.
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/keelpillide-ohtu/
LOCATION:Tallinna Raekoda
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:WISDOM DAY MUSIC TENT
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n1.09 Freedom Square at 11 AM – 6 PM\nWISDOM DAY MUSIC TENT\n Lasnamäe\, Nõmme and Viimsi music schools\,\n piano ensemble Allegro\, PLMF Academia Nova\,\n Kristina Vähi Songbirds\, Sigrid Kuulmann and her students\,\n copper brass quintet Tuulisbrass and violin ensemble Magic Strings\nFree entrance
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/tarkuse-paeva-muusikatelk/
LOCATION:Tallinna Vabaduse väljak
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Concerts,Festivals
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CREATED:20180430T101415Z
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SUMMARY:Trio Hemeis: Sigrid Kuulmann (violin)\, Andreas Lend (cello)\, Ralf Taal (piano)
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n\n31.08 Hopner House at 7 PM\n TRIO HEMEIS:\n Sigrid Kuulmann (violin)\, Andreas Lend (cello)\,\n Ralf Taal (piano)\n Programme: Tchaikovsky\, Pertmann (world premiere)\nTickets 12€/8€ \n  \nKAVA / PROGRAMMA \nAaro Pertmann (*1971)\n “Suure-Jaani eleegia” op. 45 (2016) tšellole ja klaverile / for cello and piano (maailma esiettekanne / world premiere)  \nPjotr Tšaikovski (1840-1893) Trio a-minor op. 50 \n\nPezzo elegiaco – Moderato assai\nTema con variazioni – Andante con moto\n\n  \nSIGRID KUULMANN\n graduated from the Tallinn Music High School and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Tiiu Peäske). She has furthered her skills in London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Hochschule in the violin class of maestro David Oistrahh’s student Prof. Rosa Fain. Her playing has been guided by\, among others\, professors Igor Bezrodny\, Dmitri Sitkovetsky\, Michaela Martin\, Pavel Vernikov\, Yfrah Neaman and Jüri Gerretz and her studies have been supported by Corporation of London\, British Council Baltic States\, Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst and Cultural Endowment of Estonia. S. Kuulmann-Martin is the laureate-prize winner of the H. Eller Violin Competition as well as many other competitions\, she has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in many European countries. She has received special recognition for playing Estonian composers’\, especially E. Tubin’s works. She has been the first one to perform such pieces in Estonia as Lutoslawski Partita\, Berio Sequenza VIII\, Virkhaus Violin Concerto No. 2\, Bizet-Waxman “Carmen-Fantasia” etc. Her repertoire includes most of the major violin concerts\, sonatas and virtuoso pieces from baroque to contemporary. S. Kuulmann-Martin has recorded for the Estonian Public Broadcasting (EPB) several times\, including Sibelius Violin Concert with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. In cooperation with EPB and Estonian Record Productions many CD-s have been released\, the last one in 2012 featuring Eduard Tubin’s violin music with pianist Marko Martin. S. Kuulmann-Martin is a scholar of The Association of Estonian Professional Musicians\, Cultural Endowment of Estonia and PLMF since 2007. She is a PhD student of musical interpretation at EAMT (2014\, Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny) and she is also working there as a professor. \nANDREAS LEND\nis one of his generations most distinguished cellists in Estonia. He started his music studies in Tallinn Music High School\, aquired a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Estonian Academy of Music and Theater and furthered his skills in Finland Sibelius Academy. In addition\, he has taken part of many internationally acknowledged cellist’s master classes (F. Helmerson\, D. Geringas\, M. Ostertag etc.). A. Lend has gotten awards at many competitions\, including I Prize and Grand Prix at the International Competition-Festival “Renaissance” (Armenia\, 2013)\, I Prize at the ESTA Estonian nationwide Violinists’ and Cellists’ Competition (2004) etc. In 2007 A. Lend was chosen to be a part of the European Union Youth Orchestra which he has performed with across Europe. As a soloist and an ensemble partner he has performed in numerous foreign countries including Denmark\, Germany\, Italy etc. and he has been invited to Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Kuopio Historical Keyboards Festival in Finland\, Valle d’Itria Festival in Italy etc. During the last few years he cooperated with many string quartets and orchestras and at the moment he is active in National Opera Estonia Symphony Orchestra\, string quartet Prezioso and Estonian Cello Ensemble and he is also active as a chamber musician in several other compositions. \nRALF TAAL\non oma põlvkonna üks tunnustatumaid pianiste. Ta on lõpetanud Tallinna Muusikakeskkooli ning Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia. Ta on edukalt osa võtnud mitmest konkursist pälvides muuhulgas 1993. aastal Edvard Griegi 150. sünniaastapäevale pühendatud noorte pianistide konkursil  esikoha ning Schuberti nim. rahvusvahelisel pianistide konkursil 1995. aastal noorima finalisti eripreemia. R. Taal on olnud solistiks pea kõigi Eesti orkestrite ees  tehes koostööd selliste väljapaistvate dirigentidega nagu Eri Klas\, Paavo Järvi\, Anu Tali jpt. ning andnud arvukalt soolokontserte. Samuti on ta hinnatud ansamblipartner paljudele vokaal- ja instrumentaalsolistidele\, muuhulgas Helen Lokuta\, Oksana Sinkova\, Pille Lill\, Mati Palm jt. R. Taal töötab pedagoogina EMTA-s ja Georg Otsa nim. Tallinna Muusikakoolis ning aastal 2011 pälvis ta Eesti Kultuurkapitali helikunsti sihtkapitali aastapreemia. 2014. aastal ilmus temalt sooloalbum Chopini klaverimuusikaga “Magic of Sound” (Estonian Record Productions). \n  \n 
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/trio-hemeis/
LOCATION:Hopner House\, Raekoja plats 18\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10146\, Estonia
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Accordion duo Henri Zibo and Mikk Langeproon
DESCRIPTION:30.08 Town Hall at 7 PM\nAccordion duo\nHenri Zibo and Mikk Langeproon\nProgramme: Eller\, Rääts etc\nTickets 15€/12€ \n  \nHENRI ZIBO\nstarted accordion studies at the Haapsalu Music School (teacher Sirje Roogla) when he was 10 years old and graduated from the music school with honors. His studies continued at the Tallinn Music High School (teacher Aivi Tilk) from 2012 to 2015 and from autumn of 2015 in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (teacher Tiina Välja). H. Zibo has been rewarded with III place (2008\, 2010) and I place (2012) in the North-West Estonia region accordionist competition; I place in the VII and VIII republican young accordionist competition; II place in a TV contest „Classic Stars 2014“ and II place in a contest „Naujene 2016“ which took place in Latvia\, Daugavpils. He has done solo performances with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, The Orchestra of the Estonian Defence Forces and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and taken master courses from different accordion masters (Mika Väyrynen\, Matti Rantanen\, Geir Draugsvoll\, Mikko Luoma\, Claudia Buder and Andreas Borregaard). H. Zibo has cooperated with many Estonian musicians and composers: Mihkel Poll\, Meelis Vind\, Johan Randvere\, Marcel Johannes and Katariina Maria Kits\, Marten Kuningas\, Marek Sadam\, Artjom Savitski\, Tauno Aints and maestro Arvo Pärt. \n\nMIKK LANGEPROON\nbegun his accordion studies at 8 years old at the Tallinn Music School and graduated with honors from the G. Ots Tallinn Music School (teacher Tiina Välja)\, where he was rewarded with G. Ots School’s silver badge. At the same time\, he graduated from Kadriorg German High School with a golden medal. From the autumn of 2014 he has been furthering his skills at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. Matti Rantanen). M. Langeproon has repeatedly been awarded at the competition “Best Young Musician”\, he is the winner of the older age group of Estonian Young Accordionists’ Competition (2014) and he has obtained 2nd place at the International Vilnius Accordion Competition. He has been chosen as the best instrumentalist of Tallinn Music School (2011) and as the most outstanding student of the accordion department of G. Ots Tallinn Music School three years in a row. In 2013 he was awarded with the Maxima Future Talent title in the music\, arts and culture category. A special prize of the Round Table Competition in 2014 and a successful performance in the TV contest “Classic Stars 2016” are also worth mentioning. M. Langeproon is active as a soloist as well as a chamber musician and he has performed in several reputed concert halls in Estonia and abroad\, in Classic Radio’s live broadcasting and on Estonian Television. \n 
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/klassikaohtu-raekojas/
LOCATION:Tallinna Raekoda
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Oksana Sinkova (flute)\, Madis Kari (clarinet)\, Neeme Ots (trumpet)\, Marko Martin (piano)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n29.08 Hopner House at 7 PM\nOksana Sinkova (flute)\, Madis Kari (clarinet)\,\nNeeme Ots (trumpet)\, Marko Martin (piano)\nProgramme: Saint-Saëns\, H. Kareva\, R. Kangro\, M. Kuulberg etc. \nTickets 12€/8€ \n  \nOKSANA SINKOVA\n 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.  \nMADIS KARI\nis 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. \nNEEME OTS\n 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.     \nMARKO MARTIN\n 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. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/29-08-hopneri-majas/
LOCATION:Hopner House\, Raekoja plats 18\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10146\, Estonia
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:ESTONIA 100 – ISRAEL 70
DESCRIPTION:28.08 Town Hall at 7 PM\nESTONIA 100 – ISRAEL 70\n Olga Shardt (soprano\, Lithuania)\n Dmitry Potchapsky (basso\, Russia)\n Sofia Mazar (piano\, Israel)\n contributing Pille Lill (soprano)\n Programme: Mozart\, Verdi\, Puccini etc\n Tickets 15€/12€ \n  \nDr. SOFIA MAZAR\nis the co-founder and artistic director of JIOM (Jerusalem International Opera Master-Class)\, a vocal coach and a pianist. Dr. Sofia Mazar is one of the leading figures in the field of Italian and Russian Opera in Israel. She is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where she was granted the Europe Forum’s award for researching Italian Opera of Ottocento. Sofia is a member of the teacher’s staff of the Music & Dance Academy in Jerusalem since 1997\, where she serves as a vocal coach. In addition\, she serves as a vocal coach in the New Israeli Opera. Dr. Mazar has participated in the Israeli Festival\, Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva. She has also officiated many music festivals and masterclasses\, and performed regularly in recitals in Italy\, Israel\, Russia\, Belgium as well as Moscow International House of Music\, Turin University\, Brüssel Museum\, Ramat Gan Theater etc. \nPILLE LILL\nis one of the most well known opera singers in Estonia today. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT) with two professions – choir conducting and opera singing. She continued her studies in the post garaduate level of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. J. Peters) and defended her master’s degree at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. L. Linko-Malmio). In 2004-2011 she furthered her skills in the context of doctoral studies at EAMT (Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen) and in 2005-2006 in the lied class of the University of Karlsruhe (Prof Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmuth Höll). In addition\, she has taken part of several world-famous musicians’ master classes (Elisabeth Söderström\, Irwin Gage\, Emma Kirkby\, Mauriz Sillem\, Wilma Vernocchi etc.) P. Lill has performed as an opera\, oratorio and chambermusic singer in many countries. She has sung the lead role in close to 30 operas and she has cooperated with several reputed conductors (Rozhdestvensky\, Cillario\, N. Järvi\, Klas\, Prieto\, Alekseyev ect). She has done many recordings for the Estonian National Broadcasting and her voice is perpetuated on a number of CD-s. P. Lill has been rewarded with the Big Dipper award for Best Female Singer (1996)\, she has been a laureate for Georg Ots Prize (2002)\, a grantee of the Wagner Society Scholarship (1998) and a 3rd class honoree of the Order of Bishop Platon (2005). She has also been awarded with the UNICEF Bluebird Award (2009)\, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award (2014)\, 4th class Order of the White Star (2016) and Esther of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia. P. Lill was a vocal teacher in EAMT from 1997 to 2013 (assistant professor from 2003) and she has given master classes in many countries (Germany\, Russia\, Finland\, Belarus\, Latvia\, Israel etc.). She has been also invited to be the member of the Jury in Latvia\, Estonia\, Russia and Israel. P. Lill was a board member of Estonian Composers’ Union from 2003-2009\, she is a board member of the Estonian Chamber of Culture and the Finnish-Estonian Culture Fund. She is also the founder and creative director of the PLMF Music Trust from 2003. \n 
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/eesti-100-70-iisrael/
LOCATION:Tallinna Raekoda
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:FAMILY CONCERT - GENERATIONS Estonia 100 
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n26.08 Swedish St. Michael’s Church at 6 PM*\nFAMILY CONCERT – GENERATIONS Estonia 100\nFamily Paemurru\, Sigrid Kuulmann\, Madis Kari and Kristina Vähi with kids and\nflute student Kert Vahtre\nKavas: Vivaldi\, Ravel\, E. Aarne\, E. Mägi etc.\nFree entrance
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/perekontsert-ev100/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Olga Zaitseva (soprano)\, Oliver Kuusik (tenore)\, Aare Saal (baritone\, NO Estonia)\, Tiina Kärblane (piano)
DESCRIPTION:[/column]\n\n25.08 Town Hall at 7 PM\n FESTIVAL OPENING CONCERT – OPERA GALA\n Olga Zaitseva (soprano)\, Oliver Kuusik (tenor)\, Aare Saal (baritone\, NO Estonia)\n Tiina Kärblane (accompanist)\n Programme: Donizetti\, Tchaikovsky\, Dvořák\, Tamberg etc.\nTickets 15€/12€ \nBestowal of the Marje and Kuldar Sink award “Young Singer 2018” by Mrs. Mari-Ann and Mr. Tunne Kelam \n\nOLGA ZAITSEVA \nhas graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a bachelor’s degree in the singing class of Associate Prof. Pille Lill and Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen and she has obtained her master’s degree from the Pedagogy of Interpretation majoring in singing. She has furthered her skills in the master classes of Ingrid Kremling\, Elizabeth Wilke and Yandwiga Rappé in Poland. O. Zaitseva has won the I prize in the St. Petersburg contest “Song has the face of a woman” (2008)\, special prize in the III and VII international contest “Opera\, the Soul of Mountains” in Poland (2008 and 2012)\, two special prizes in the 2nd PLMF National Vocal Contest dedicated to Vello Jürna (2012). In 2015 O. Zaitseva was given a Crystal Shoe Award from the Estonian Theatre Union for being a “young person in theatre who has accomplished first significant theatrical works” for the performances of Almirena (Händel “Rinaldo”) and Giannetta (Donizetti “L’elisir d’amore”) both in Estonian National Opera. Her repertoire of opera roles includes Almirena\, Donna\, Mermaid (Händel „Rinaldo“)\, Giannetta (Donizetti „L’elisir d’amore“)\, II flower girl (Wagner „Parsifal“)\, shepherd girl (Ravel „The Child and the Spells“)\, Tebaldo (Verdi „Don Carlo“)\, Frasquita (Bizet „Carmen“)\, Sacerdotessa (Verdi „Aida“)\, Barbarina (Mozart „Le nozze di Figaro“). During a concert performance she has sung the role of Kupava (Rimsky-Korsakov „The Snow Maiden“) and the soprano part of Fauré’s Requiem. \nOLIVER KUUSIK \nstarted his studies in singing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Associate Prof. Pille Lill and Prof. Virgilijus Noreika and has graduated from master’s level and opera studio of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (Prof. Rudolf Piernay). He was working as a soloist of the Estonian National Opera between 2008-2017. From the most important roles his repertoire includes Faust (Gounod Faust)\, Nemorino (Donizetti The Elixir of Love\, Liverpool\, UK)\, Don Ramiro (Rossini La Cenerentola)\, Sesto (Händel Julius Caesar)\, Fenton (Verdi Falstaff) etc. He has recorded Fleishman’s Rothschild’s Violin together with the Liverpool Royal Symphony Orchestra and sung Enjolras in Schönberg’s/Boublil’s musical Les Miserables. As a valued oratorio and chamber music singer O. Kuusik has performed in over 25 different oratorios and given concerts in Estonia as well as several foreign countries. In 2010 O. Kuusik was rewarded with the annual “Crystal Shoe” Award of the Estonian Theatre Union\, in 2009 he was chosen as a laureate of Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (Montreal\, Canada). In 2008 he received the annual Estonian Theatre Award for his singing in Britten’s opera Turn of the Screw and he has been awarded with SEB Bank’s audience award “Soloist of the Year 2001”. O. Kuusik has won the 3rd Prize at the 5th Klaudia Taev International Competition for Young Opera Singers (2007) and the Kremling’s Special Prize for the best interpretation of German Song. He has also won the 1st Prize at the Hendrik Krumm Competition in 2006\, the 1st Prize at the Estonian singing competition Young Singer (2002) and the PLMF award “Young Musician 2005”. Several praising reviews have been published about him in worlds most notable publications such as Opera Now\, Opera Magazine\, The Stage\, The London Times etc. \nAARE SAAL \nhas graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre as an opera singer\, teachers prof.-s Ivo Kuusk\, Virgilius Noreika and Jaakko Ryhänen. In 1990 he participated in the master class of Gino Bechi and in 1997–2000 he attended the master classes of Rolando Panerai in Italy. A. Saal won the 1st prize at the international competition “Voices of Rossini and Donizetti” (1996\, Italy). In 1997 he won the prestigious Georg Ots Prize in Estonia. A. Saal made his opera debut in 1989 at the Estonian National Opera with the lead-role in Mozart’s opera “Le nozze di Figaro”. His repertoire includes more than 40 opera and operetta roles in the productions of the Estonian National Opera\, Theatre Vanemuine and in productions abroad. The most important roles include the title roles in Verdi’s “Nabucco”\, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”\, Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”\, Verdi’s “Rigoletto”; Figaro (Rossini “The Barber of Seville”)\, Escamillo (Bizet “Carmen”)\, Belcore (Donizetti “L’elisir d’amore”); Verdi’s Don Carlo (“Ernani”)\, Rodrigo (“Don Carlo”)\, Renato (“Un ballo in maschera”) and Amonasro (“Aida”); Yeletsky (Tchaikovsky “The Queen of Spades”)\, Valentin (Gounod “Faust”)\, Count Almaviva (Mozart “Le nozze di Figaro”)\, Dandini (Rossini “La Cenerentola”)\, Marcello (Puccini “La Bohème”)\, Edwin (Kálmán “Die Csárdásfürstin”)\, Achillas (Handel “Julius Caesar”)\, the Third Guest and the U.S. soldier (Tüür “Wallenberg”)\, Severo (Donizetti “Poliuto”) etc. A. Saal has sung at the Latvian National Opera\, Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theatre\, Florence City Theatre\, Dramatiska Ensemble in Stockholm and Malmö Opera and Music Theatre. In addition to opera roles his repertoire also includes solo recitals of Estonian\, Russian and Italian music. \nTIINA KÄRBLANE \nhas studied at Tallinn Music High School and graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory in the piano class of Prof. Bruno Lukk. She continued her studies in Leningrad Conservatory in the chamber music department under the guidance of Prof. Tamara Fidler. Her first job was at the Tallinn National Conservatory as an accompanist in the string department. At the same time\, there were several concert tours across the former Soviet Union\, in the service of Soyuz Concert (with the soloist violin player Jüri Gerretz). In 1991\, the teaching job continued at the Kuopio Conservatory and at the Sibelius Academy. T. Kärblane has had several successful performances at national string competitions in Estonia and Finland as well as at international competitions (Riga\, 1984; Geneva\, 1990; as a competitor A. Leibur). From 2000-2014 T. Kärblane was at the service of Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)\, teaching accompanying and correpetition. From 2003-2013 she worked as a correpetitor at the Tampere Opera. That job brought her together with a number of Finnish and European distinguished singers\, directors and conductors. T. Kärblane started to teach at opera studio in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in autumn 2013.
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/avakontsert/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Chamber Music Festival,Concerts,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180805T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180805T173000
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SUMMARY:GALA CONCERT
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n5.08 Eivere manor at 3 PM\nGALA CONCERT\nAnahit Nersesyan (Armenia)\, Irina Zahharenkova\,\nIzumi Tateno (Finland/Japan)\, Ralf Taal\nProgramme: Schumann\, Chopin\, Liszt\, Debussy\, Sumera etc. \nTicket 15€/10€ \nIRINA ZAHHARENKOVA \nstarted with piano lessons with her mother when she was four\, studied at the Tallinn Georg Ots Music School (Prof Mare Ots\, 1991-1995) and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (piano: Prof Lilian Semper; harpsichord: Prof Maris Valk-Falk\, 1995-2000) where she got her master’s in 2003 (Prof L. Semper). Irina continued at the EAMT doctoral studies in 2003–2011. In 2010 she also got her master’s from Helsinki Sibelius Academy in Finland (Prof Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna). Irina has furthered her studies in the master classes of S. Kovachevich\, A. Hewitt\, A. Schiff\, V. Meržanov\, H. Dreyfus\, P. Hantaï\, C. Stembridge\, P. Vapavuori etc. Irina has won first prizes in major international piano competitions such as the M. Čiurlionise Competition (Lithuania\, 2003)\, Prémio Jaén Competition (Spain\, 2004)\, “Van Vlaanderen” Festival Piano Competition Brügges (Belgium\, 2004)\, Competition in Epinal (France\, 2004)\, “Praha Spring“ Harpsichord Competition (Czech Republic\, 2005)\, Georges Enescu Piano Competition (Romenia\, 2005)\, Competition in Genf (Switzerland\, 2005)\, Alessandro Casagrande Competition (Italy\, 2006)\, Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig\, 2006)\, Villa-Lobos Competition (Brazil\, 2006) and A. Rubinštein Piano Competition (Israel\, 2008). Irina has performed in several international festivals in Italy\, Germany\, Finland\, Norway and Estonia. She has also performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra\, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre National de Lorraine. As an extremely versatile musician\, I. Zahharenkova frequently performs on the piano and harpsichord also in solo recitals and chamber music concerts. Two CD’s with Irina’s interpretations of J. S. Bach “Goldberg Variations” BWV 988 (2010\, Classical Recordings) and D. Scarlatti Sonatas (2012\, Classical Records) and also DVD “Keyboard Juggleress” (Estonian Records Production 2009) have been released. Irina’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles from baroque to contemporary. Today she lives and teaches in Finland and at the EAMT. Irina has also pursued the organ\, chemistry\, as well as Estonian and Finnish philology for her own interest. \nANAHIT NERSESYAN \nis a famous Armenian pianist. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan (1961–1972\, Prof E. Voskanyan) and continued her education at the Moscow State Conservatory (Professor V. Merzhanov\, 1972–1977). She got her post-graduate education in piano. Since 1977 she has been teaching at the piano department of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. She has participated in several international competitions and festivals: VI International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (1980\, First Prize and Golden Medal\, Germany)\, J. S. Bach 300th Anniversary Festival (1984\, Germany)\, International Conservatory Week Festival (2014\, St. Petersburg) and international festival dedicated to the memory of T. Shebanova (2015). A. Nersesyan has taken master classes at Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław (1985\, Poland) and Tokyo College of Music (1994–1995\, Japan). She has been a member of several international juries: J. S. Bach International Competition in Saarbrücken (1992\, Germany)\, Rachmaninov International Competition (1994\, 1995\, 2004\, 2008\, Russia)\, Balakirev International Competition (2014\, Krasnodar\, Russia)\, International Competition “Minsk 2014” (2014\, Belarus)\, festival dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of V. Merzhanov (2014\, Tambov\, Russia). A. Nersesyan has given solo concerts dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (2015\, Germany) and a concert dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the birth of P. Tchaikovsky (2015\, Yerevan\, Armenia). She has given several master classes at the Conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov (St. Petersburg\, Russia)\, in Sanok (Poland) and in Krasnodar (Russia) and has given numerous recitals in Germany\, France\, Canada\, Finland\, Hungary\, Austria\, Japan\, Baltic countries\, USA and Poland. She has performed with several renowned conductors including Khanjian\, Tjeknavorian\, Manino (Italy)\, van Tristen (Netherlands)\, Koch\, Emin Khachaturian ect. She has also given performances with the Komitas Quartet several times. A. Nersesyan’s albums were popular in the former Soviet Union as well as in Germany and Japan\, where she has toured numerous times. She has released music with the Melodiya and Altus. A. Nersesyan was granted with the title of Meritorious Artist of Armenia in 2007. Currently she is working as a professor at the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory. \nIZUMI TATENO \n is a top Japanese pianist who has performed over 3000 concerts around the world and released one hundred recordings. In 1968\, he placed second at the Messiaen International Piano Competition. In 1976\, the Finnish government awarded him the Order of the First Class Knight of the Lion of Finland. Since 1981 he has been beneficiary of a stipend given by the government of Finland. He is presently the president of the Sibelius Society of Japan. In both 1982 and 1988\, I. Tateno performed as a soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s tour in Japan. In 1984\, he performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist on its European tour. In 1994\, he was soloist with a Japan tour by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was invited to the St. Petersburg White Nights Festival in 1995. The same year he gave recitals around Japan and in Helsinki in commemoration of his thirty-fifth year as a concert pianist. In 1996\, he received an award from the Japanese foreign minister for his contributions to friendly relations between Japan and other nations. In honor of the two hundredth anniversary of Schubert’s birth\, he presented a seven-evening series of over 50 concerts around Japan and Finland. From 1989 until 1993 he worked as artistic director for the Finland Music Festival\, and from 1991\, the artistic director of the Nordic Light Sapporo music festival. In 1998 he became the artistic director of an annual event called the “Oulunsalo Music Festival Izumi Tateno and His Friends.” On January 9\, 2002 I. Tateno collapsed on stage with an apoplectic stroke. It was right after the last piece at his recital in Finland. It resulted in a paralysis of the right half of his body. After concentrating on continuous rehabilitation\, he returned to concert activities and performed recitals throughout Japan in May 2004\, playing with only his left hand. His passion for music has moved people and he has been capturing people’s attention since then. Various magazines and TV programmes have taken up his life. Currently\, he continues solo activities only with the left hand\, and a number of new pieces for the left hand have been written for him by composers who were touched by his activities. Most active composers as Michio Mamiya\, Pehr Henrik Nordgren\, Hikaru Hayashi\, Yasuo Sueyoshi\, Takashi Yoshimatsu\, Coba (Yasuhiro Kobayashi)\, and Kensaku Tanikawa have dedicated their original works to his left hand. The music pieces he worked on as if following water vein of his life give audience unforgettable impression\, being backed with his calmly burning love for music. In 2007\, he premièred “Cepheus note”\, the first piano concerto for a left hand in Japan composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu\, with Sächsische Staataskapelle Dresden. I. Tateno has performed as a soloist under such renowned conductors as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos\, Jiři Belohlavek\, Eliahu Inbal\, Charles Dutoit\, Kurt Masur\, John Pritchard and Mariss Jansons. He has performed with almost every living Finnish and Japanese conductor Paavo Berglund\, Okko Kamu\, Jukka-Pekka Saraste\, Hiroyuki Iwaki and Hiroshi Wakasugi\, to name a few. His broad repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary pieces. He has received high acclaim for his performances and recordings in all genres. Honorable Director of Minamisouma Shimin Bunka Hall in Fukushima\, Japan\, President of the Sibelius Society of Japan\, and Advisor of the Sévrac Society of Japan. In 2006 he was awarded the Sibelius Medal by the Sibelius Society of Finland. In autumn 2008\, for the outstanding contribution during his musical activities of many years\, I. Tateno was awarded “The Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold Rays with Rosette” and the honorable recognition from the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in Japan. \nRALF TAAL \nhas graduated from the Tallinn Music High School and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). In 1993\, he won the 1st Prize at the young pianists’ competition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of E. Grieg and in 1994 R. Taal won the National Pianists’ Competition and Young Interprets’ Competition-Festival “Con Brio”. He was a scholar of the Estonian Concert for the 1994/95 concert season. In 1995\, he was awarded with a special prize at the Schubert International Pianists’ Competition in Dortmund for being the youngest finalist. R. Taal has performed as a soloist with almost all Estonian orchestras and he has given numerous solo concerts. He has cooperated with such outstanding conductors as Eri Klas\, Paavo Järvi\, Olari Elts\, Arvo Volmer\, Tõnu Kaljuste\, Anu Tali etc. His solo programs mostly include music from Schubert\, Beethoven and Chopin. In addition to being active as a soloist R. Taal is also a valued ensemble partner for several vocal and instrumental soloists\, including singers Mati Palm\, Ain Anger\, Pille Lill\, Helen Lokuta\, Monika-Evelin Liiv and instrumentalists Indrek Vau\, Oksana Sinkova\, Toomas Vavilov\, Andrus Haav etc. R. Taal is working as a pedagogue at the EAMT and at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and he was a concertmaster at the Estonian National Opera (1998-2014).  In 2011\, he was rewarded with the annual award of the Estonian Culture Endowment’s Music (Sound Design) Fund. In 2014\, he released his solo album with Chopin’s piano music “Magic of Sound” (Estonian Record Productions).
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/gala-concer/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Eivere,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180805T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180805T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
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SUMMARY:Final concert of Summer Academy
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n5.08 Paide Town Hall at 12 PM\nFinal concert of Eivere Summer Academy for Pianists \nFree entrance
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/final-concert-of-summer-academy/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Eivere,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180804T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180804T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T073049Z
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SUMMARY:Anahit Nersesyan (piano\, Armenia) 
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n4.08 Eivere manor at 7 PM\nAnahit Nersesyan (Armenia)\nProgramme: Bach\, Grieg\, Armenian composers  \nTicket 10€/7€
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/anahit-nersesyan-piano-armenia/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Eivere,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180804T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180804T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180703T061850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180730T111226Z
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SUMMARY:ALION BALTIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conductor SERGEI STADLER (Russia)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nIn cooperation with Alion Baltic International Music Festival:\nSat 4th of August Tallinn Philharmonic House of the Blackheads at 7 p.m\nProfessor Michael Bulychev-Okser (piano\, USA)\nRAPLA SUMMER ACADEMY AND ALION BALTIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA\nConductor Sergei Stadler (violin\, Russia)\nProgramme: Mozart\, Rachmaninoff\, Pärt etc \nTickets 12€ / 7€  \nLEARN MORE http://www.raplafestival.ee/spsummeracademy-concert2 \nBUY TICKETS GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/suvekooli-loppkontsert-dirigent-sergei-stadler-venemaa-2/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180803T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180803T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180608T184610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T072838Z
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SUMMARY:Irina Zahharenkova (piano)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n3.08 Eivere manor at 7 PM\nIrina Zahharenkova \nProgramme: Tchaikovsky\, Ravel etc. \nTicket 10€/7€
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/irina-zahharenkova-piano/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Eivere,Festivals
ORGANIZER;CN="Music Trust PLMF":MAILTO:plmf@plmf.ee
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180803T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180803T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180703T055610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T071332Z
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SUMMARY:Sergei Stadler (violin\, Russia)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nIn cooperation with Alion Baltic International Music Festival:\nFri 3rd of August Rapla Church at 7 p.m\nRAPLA SUMMER ACADEMY AND ALION BALTIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA\nConductor Sergei Stadler (violin\, Russia)\nProgramme: Mozart\, Rachmaninoff\, Pärt etc  \nTickets 12€ / 7€  \nLEARN MORE http://www.raplafestival.ee/spsummeracademy-concert1 \nBUY TICKETS GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/rapla-keelpillimangijate-suvekooli-loppkontsert/
LOCATION:Valga vald
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180730T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180730T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180702T182735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180730T104810Z
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SUMMARY:ORATORIO and OPERA GALA
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n  \n\n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nMon 30th of July Rapla Church at 7 p.m  \nORATORIO and OPERA GALA\nInternational Vocalist Summer School Final concert –\nGundula Hintz (Saksamaa)\, Pille Lill\, Oliver Kuusik and T. Dede\, K-T. Terve\, M. Merilain\, T. Lään\, L. Z. Latvaitis\, R. Targamaa\, R. Rent\, A. Aava\,\nPiia Paemurru (piano) \nProgramme: Vivaldi\, Händel\, Mozart etc  \nTickets 12€ / 10€  \nLEARN MORE http://www.raplafestival.ee/copy-of-ooperigaala \nBUY TICKETS GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/ooperigala/
LOCATION:Rapla kirik\, Tallinna mnt 7\, Rapla\, Rapla maakond\, 79513\, Eesti
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180729T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180729T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180702T180128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T070029Z
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SUMMARY:JOHANSONS and Krista Citra Joonas
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nSun 29th of July Hageri Brotherhood Prayer House at 7 p.m  \nCOME BACK CHILDREN\nJOHANSONS and Krista Citra Joonas\nProgramme sacred folk music\nTickets 15€ / 10€  \nAfter the concert there will be a talk with the performers in the garden of Hageri Prayer House about EV100 (Republic of Estonia 100)  \nLEARN MORE http://www.raplafestival.ee/copy-of-ersoeng-1 \nBUY TICKETS GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/j-o-h-a-n-s-o-n-i-d-ja-krista-citra-joonas/
LOCATION:Hageri Vennastekoguduse Palvemaja 
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180728T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180728T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180702T162751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T065736Z
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SUMMARY:Pille Lill (soprano)\, Kristina Kriit (violin)\, Tiia Tenno (organ)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nSat 28th of July Käru Church at 7 p.m \nSONGS FOR THE SOUL\nPille Lill (sopran)\nKristina Kriit (violin)\nTiia Tenno (organ)\nProgramme: Vivaldi\, Bach\, Mozart\, M. Sink etc \nTickets 7€ / 5€  \nLEARN MORE  http://www.raplafestival.ee/copy-of-ersoeng-1 \nBUY TICKETS  GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/kristina-kriit-viiul-tiia-tenno-orel-kaastegev-sopran-pille-lill/
LOCATION:Käru kirik
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180727T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180727T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T105705
CREATED:20180702T122229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T065627Z
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SUMMARY:Pirjo Levandi (vocal)\, Madis Arvisto (guitar)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n26th Rapla Church Music Festival 26.07-5.08.2018\nFri 27th of July Järvakandi Church at 7 p.m \nSUMMER IN OUR HEARTS\nPirjo Levandi (vocal)\nMadis Arvisto (guitar) \nProgramme: Piazzolla\, Valgre\, Mägi\, Pedersen etc  \nLEARN MORE http://www.raplafestival.ee/copy-of-uehelhommikuleng-1 \nBUY TICKETS GET YOUR TICKETS VIA PILETILEVI  5€- 15€\, FESTIVAL PASS ALSO AVAILABLE 30€-50€!
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/pirjo-levandi-vokaal-madis-arvisto-kitarr/
LOCATION:Järvakandi kirik
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Rapla Church Music Festival
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SUMMARY:Ines Maidre (organ\, Estonia/Norway)\, contributing Ingmar Simson-Valtin (violin\, Estonia/Norway)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n\n\nVALGA-VALKA SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF SEVEN CHURCHES 10th – 29th of July 2018\,\n 10th of July at 7 PM Valga St John’s Church\,\nOPENING CONCERT\, NATIVE MELODIES – ESTONIA 100\,\nInes Maidre (organ\, Estonia/Norway)\,\ncontributing Ingmar Simson-Valtin (violin\, Estonia/Norway)\,\nprogramme: Tobias\, Süda\, Eller etc.\nPilet 4/3 \nTickets are on sale an hour before the concert at the venue.  \nAfter the concerts there will be introductory tours of the churches.  \n Churches’ history\, architecture and traditions will be introduced. The tours of Valga city’s churches will be led by theologian guide Karin Varblane. In Hargla\, Karula and Laatre churches the tours after the concert will be led by the pastors of the congregations.
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/ines-maidre-orel-eesti-norra-kaastegev-ingmar-simson-valtin-viiul-eesti-norra/
LOCATION:Valga Jaani kirik \, Kesk 21\, Valga\, Valga maakond\, 68203\, Eesti
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / YOUNG TALENTS
DESCRIPTION:13th February at 3 p.m\nSwedish St. Michael´s church (Rüütli tn 9)\nYOUNG TALENTS\n Markéta Janouškova (Czech Republic)\, Raiko Raalik\, Henri Zibo\, Johan Randvere \n Free entrance \n  \nMARKÉTA JANOUŠKOVÁ  \nis a young Czech violinist. Thanks to the competitions awards and mainly her succesful performances at Czech and international festivals\, she has established herself as a noted soloist and a chamber musician. Markéta began to play violin at the age of six. After graduating Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Music in Prague\, she became a student of HfM Hanns Eisler at the class of Ulf Wallin. She had received further education at the festivals and master classes she has taken part of\, where she has worked with S. Askhenazy\, B. Kelemen\, S. Mintz\, D. Schwarzberg\, P. Vernikov\, P. Kopec\, R. Chase\, F. Bidini\, O. Karlsson and S. Shipps. She is a founding member of Palenicek Piano Trio\, a violinist of a chamber ensamble La Rêverie\, violinist of CD and Concert project of Goldberg Variations supported by Malta Philharmonic\, a leading member of Hulacourt Chamber Soloists\, an artist in residence of d’Accord Klassikfestival and a soloist of a crossover project FolkloreClassic inspired by the czech traditional music roots. Recently Markéta appeared as a soloist with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak’s Violin Concerto. At a recital at Europasche Kulturzenterem\, she premiered Episode for violin and piano by Anton Zapf. She has been invited to festivals like the Aurora Chamber Music Festival\, Old Ox festival in Sweden\, Mahler 2000\, Dvorak Festival\, Trutnovský autumn and Podblanický podzim and she was invited to play as a substitute with Smetana Trio at Lipa Musica festival. \n  \nRAIKO RAALIK \nstarted to learn singing in Tartu H. Eller Music School in the singing class of Taisto Noor. At this moment\, he is studying in the Voice Department of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre at the second course of the bachelor level under the guidance of Taavi Tampuu. In addition to his studies he is singing in the choir of Savonlinna opera festival for the second season. He is contributing as a soloist in Vanemuine Theatre in the children’s opera of Eino Tamberg “Guugelmuugelpunktkomm”. In 2017 R. Raalik was awarded with the Marje and Kulder Sink “Young Singer 2017” prize.  \n  \nHENRI ZIBO  \nstarted accordion studies in Haapsalu Music School (teacher Sirje Roogla) when he was 10 years old and graduated the music school with honors. His studies continued in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Aivi Tilk) from 2012 to 2015 and from fall of 2015 in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (teacher Tiina Välja). H. Zibo has been rewarded with III place (2008\, 2010) and I place (2012) in the North-West Estonia region accordionist competition; I place in the VII and VIII republican young accordionist competition; II place in a TV contest „Classic Stars 2014“ and II place in a contest „Naujene 2016“ which took place in Latvia\, Daugavpils. He has done solo performances with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, The Orchestra of the Estonian Defence Forces and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and taken master courses from different accordion masters (Mika Väyrynen\, Matti Rantanen\, Geir Draugsvoll\, Mikko Luoma\, Claudia Buder and Andreas Borregaard). H. Zibo has cooperated with many Estonian musicians and composers: Mihkel Poll\, Meelis Vind\, Johan Randvere\, Marcel Johannes and Katariina Maria Kits\, Marten Kuningas\, Marek Sadam\, Artjom Savitski\, Tauno Aints and maestro Arvo Pärt. \n  \nJOHAN RANDVERE \nstarted his studies in Võru Music School (teacher Merike Kapp) and continued in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Marja Jürisson\, prof. Ivari Ilja). He finished his masters’ studies in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, prof. I. Ilja) in 2016 during which he replenished his skills in G. Verdi Conservatorio (2012-2015\, prof. Valerio Premuroso). From this year he is continuing at the doctorate level in EAMT. J. Randvere has been rewarded with prizes in different competitions: “Klaviermusik” in Vilnius (I place\, 2008)\, “Con Brio 2008” in Tallinn (finalist)\, EPTA Competition in Belgium (II place\, 2010)\, Competition for Young Musicians in Catania (I place & Grand Prix\, 2012)\, Competition for Young Musicians “Luciano Luciani” (III place\, 2013)\, “Coop” Competition for Pianists (II place\, 2013)\, “Andrea Baldi” Competition (I place & Grand Prix\, 2014)\, “Con Brio 2010” (audience Award as a part of Con Brio Trio & Holland Music Sessions’ Special Award)\, TV Competition “Classic Stars 2013” (finalist) and VIII Estonian Competition for Pianists (II place\, 2014). He has been rewarded with the PLMF Music Trust “Young Musician 2014” Award. J. Randvere has given concerts in Estonia\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Italy\, Vatican\, Belarus\, Finland\, USA\, Canada and Netherlands. He has performed as a part of different groups on such world stages as New York Carnegie Hall\, Vancouver Chan Center\, Minsk Philharmonic and Kaunas Philharmonic Grand Hall and Puccini Hall in Milan. He has repeatedly been invited to perform as a soloist in front of many orchestras such as Estonian National\, Latvian National\, Maladzetsna\, Theatre Vanemuine-\, Belarusian Radio and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra with such conductors as Risto Joost\, Toomas Vavilov\, Paul Mägi\, Jüri Alpterten\, Kaspar Mänd\, Tarmo Leinatamm\, Sasha Mäkilä\, Grigori Soroka\, Erki Pehk\, Mihhail Gerts and others. J. Randvere is a part of the Piano Orchestra and early music ensemble Heinavanker.
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/tallinn-winter-festival-presents-music-of-soul-in-swedish-st-michaels-church-free/
LOCATION:Swedish St Michael’s Church\, Rüütli 9\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10130\, Estonia
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / Andreas Lend (cello)\, Virgo Veldi (saxophone)\, Jaak Lutsoja (accordion)
DESCRIPTION:LIFE´S BEAUTY\n10th of February at 5 p.m\nHopner House\nVirgo Veldi (saxophone)\nAndreas Lend (cello)\nJaak Lutsoja (accordion)\nProgramme tangos of Indrek Liit\nTickets 15€/7€ via Piletilevi and at the door \n  \nPROGRAM \nTõnu Kõrvits (s.1969) – Laulan üle merede / Sing over the seas \nRoman Toi (s.1916) – Aaria \nJohann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) – Trio sonaat / triosonate G-duur\nAdagio\nAllegro\nAdagio\nAllegro \nIndrek Liit (s.1983) – 10 tangot / tangos op.3 \n  \nVIRGO VELDI \nhas graduated from the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School (GOTMS\, Lect. Villu Veski\, Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1988) and from the Tallinn Conservatory (Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1993). He obtained his master’s degree at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1997) and from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Prof. Pekka Savijoki\, 2004). In 1990\, he was awarded with the 3rd Prize at the Estonian Wind Players Competition in Tallinn and in 1996\, he won the 1st Prize and Audience’s Special Prize at the “Con Brio”\, a competition for young musicians in Estonia. He has worked as a saxophone teacher at the GOTMS and at the Sibelius High School in Helsinki. Since 2001 he is a teacher of the EAMT’s saxophone major (from 2012 an associate professor) and he has given numerous master classes in different European countries. V. Veldi has appeared as a saxophone soloist with Tallinn Music School String Orchestra\, EAMT Symphony Orchestra\, Estonian Radio Estrada Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra and he has taken part in Nyyd Ensemble’s projects. He has been invited to perform at several festivals (Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Tallinn Winter Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival etc). V. Veldi has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Risto Joost\, Lauri Sirp\, Mikk Murdvee\, Olari Elts\, Vello Pähn\, Jüri Alperten\, Nikolai Alexeyev etc. and he has given numerous chambermusic concerts in Estonia and abroad. His ensemble partners have been Ralf Taal\, Mati Mikalai\, Kai Ratassepp\, Piia Paemurru\, Ivari Ilja\, Tatjana Lepnurm\, Ulla Krigul\, Aare-Paul Lattik\, Ines Maidre and many others. From 1999 to 2004 V. Veldi was a member and the artistic director of the saxophone quartet “SaxEst”. \n  \nANDREAS LEND \nstarted his musical studies in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Laine Leichter)\, received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2008\, 2010; Prof. Peeter Paemurru) and did additional studies in Finland at the Sibelius Academy (Prof. Hannu Kiiski and Heikki Pekkarinen 2005/2006). Furthermore A. Lend has participated in numerous master classes by many internationally recognized cellists (Frans Helmerson\, David Geringas\, Martin Ostertag\, Jan-Erik Gustafsson\, Niels Ullner\, Marko Ylonen\, Matias de Oliveira Pinto\, Aleksander Ivashkin\, Johannes Goritzki etc). A. Lend has won prizes at many competitions: 1st prize and Grand Prix at the International Contest-Festival “Renaissance” (Armenia\, 2013)\, 1st prize at the ESTA Estonian National Competition of Young Violinists and Cellists (2004) and 3rd prize at the Augusts Dombrovskis International Competition in (Riga\, Latvia; 2002). He was a laureate of the Estonian Young Performers Competition-Festival “Con Brio” (2008) and the International Cello Competition in Liezen (Austria\, 2000). In 2009 and 2010 A. Lend was awarded with the „International Holland Music Session” summer academy scholarship and the PLMF Music Trust award “Young Musician 2011”. In 2007\, A. Lend was chosen to take part of the European Union Youth Orchestra (chief conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy) which he has performed with all across Europe. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Finland\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Sweden\, Denmark\, Germany\, Italy\, Austria\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, Hungary\, Russia\, Canada\, England\, Slovenia\, Bulgaria\, Romania and Czech and he has been invited to Tallinn Chamber Music Festival and Winter Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival\, Järvi Summer Festival\, Kuopio Historical Keyboards Festival in Finland\, Festival de Valle d’Itria in Italy\, Spectrum Festival in Slovenia etc. During the last few years he has cooperated with acknowledged Polish string quartet Lutoslawski Quartet and string orchestras Camerata Nordica (Sweden) and Sinfonia Cymru (Wales). From 2004-2014 he was a member of the C-JAM cello quartet. Between 2006-2016 A. Lend was working as a cellist in the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and from 2016 he is in Estonian National Opera Symphony Orchestra. In addition\, he is a part of Prezioso String Quartet and Estonian Cello Ensemble and he is active as a soloist and a chamber musician in many other musical groups. In 2017\, he will have concerts in Estonia\, Russia\, Turkey and Czech and as a part of the Polish chamber ensemble Neopolis Virtuosi in Germany\, Norway\, Sweden and Lithuania. \nJAAK LUTSOJA \nhas graduated as an accordionist from Tallinn Lilleküla High School music class and from the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School. He is active as a freelance musician since 1997 and has for many years also taught at Saue Music School\, at the Heino Eller Tartu Music School and at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. He has performed as a soloist and as a member of several prominent ensembles. In addition to giving concerts all over Europe\, Jaak Lutsoja has performed in the United States and Russia with a very wide repertoire from a variety of genres expanding from pop-jazz to classical and contemporary music. Jaak Lutsoja has performed together with musicians such as Kersti Ala-Murr\, Leho Karin\, Tõnu Jõesaar\, Oleg Pissarenko\, Erkki Otsman\, Siiri Sisask\, Silvi Vrait\, Tõnis Mägi\, Jaak Jürisson\, Hedvig Hanson\, Ardo Ran Varres\, and also with the chamber choir Revalia\, an accordion trio comprised of himself\, Henn Rebane and Allan Jakobi\, ensembles Noorkuu\, Karavan etc. Jaak Lutsoja has performed at many international music festivals and concert projects (Saksofon versus Saksofon\, 2008 Kumu) and opera productions (Tõnis Kaumann/Leelo Tungal Lopi ja Lapi\, 2008 Türi Spring Festival; Mari Vihmand Armastuse valem\, 2008 Estonian National Opera; W. A. Mozart The Magic Flute\, Nukuteater; dance production Carrrmen\, 2012 Vanemuine Theatre). Jaak Lutsoja was the headliner at the festival Visioon 2010 with a programme of his own compositions. The same year his first solo recording Contrarian Grooving was published\, comprising entirely of original creations. The album has twice been nominated as the European Jazz Radio Album of the Week. In cooperation with the soprano Kersti Ala-Murr and the New Music Quartet he has also published an album Vaikimine oleks vale (2010) and together with the Jaak Lutsoja Quintet the album Adiós Nonino (2013). In 2013 Jaak Lutsoja established the Accordion Club which was created for furthering the possibilities of playing the accordion. \n  \n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/andreas-lend-cello-virgo-veldi-saxophone-jaak-lutsoja-accordion-tickets/
LOCATION:Hopner House\, Raekoja plats 18\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10146\, Estonia
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / Marko Martin (piano)
DESCRIPTION:9th of February at 7 p.m\nHopner House\nMarko Martin (piano)\nProgramme: Beethoven\, Liszt etc\nTickets 15€/7€ via Piletilevi and at the door \n  \nPROGRAM \nLudvig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – Sonaat c-moll op.13 “Pateetiline”\nI Grave. Allegro di molto e con brio\nII Adagio cantabile\nIII Rondo. Allegro\n\nFerenc Liszt (1811-1886) – “Genfi kellad” tsüklist “Rännuaastad”/ from the cycle  “Years of Pilgrimage” Switzerland nr.9\n                                               – Ballaad / Ballade nr.2 h-moll S.171\n– “Obermanni org” / “Valley of Obermann” tsüklist “Rännuaastad” / from the cycle  “Years of Pilgrimage” Switzerland nr.6\n  \nMARKO MARTIN \nis one of the most distinguished Estonian pianists of his generation. M. Martin started music studies at the age of 8 at Tallinn Music High School\, already winning the 1st prize at the International Young Pianists’ Competition held in Czechoslovakia at the age of 15. He repeated the same achievement a year later in Ukraine. M. Martin is a laureate of the Esther Honens International Piano Competition (2000) and a prize winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1998). 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. M. Martin has studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Peep Lassmann) and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. Joan Havill). In addition\, he has taken part of the master classes of several outstanding pianists (Leon Fleisher\, Dmitri Baškirov\, Murray Perahia\, Paul Badura-Skoda etc). M. Martin has played as soloist with The Philharmonia Orchestra (London)\, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra\, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and many other orchestras and he has performed in Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall in London\, Hamburg Musikhalle\, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto etc. M. Martin has continuously been invited to perform as a valued ensemble partner and a soloist at different festivals (Festival della Valle d’Itria in Italy\, Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Tallinna Winter Festival etc.). He has released two CD’s with Schubert’s and Liszt’s creation (1998\, Abbas Records; 2002\, Arktos). The last CD features Eduard Tubin’s violin music with the violinist Sigrid Kuulmann (2012\, ERP). He has given concerts in Estonia\, Latvia\, Scandinavian countries\, Germany\, France\, Italy and United Kingdom and he is a scholar of the Estonian Association of Professional Musicians and PLMF Music Trust. From 2002 M. Martin works as a professor at the EAMT and is a member of the board of the Estonian Association of Professional Musicians. \n  \n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/marko-martin-tickets/
LOCATION:Hopner House\, Raekoja plats 18\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10146\, Estonia
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / Marcelo Nisinman and Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi
DESCRIPTION:8th of February at 7 p.m\nHopner House\nMarcelo Nisinman (bandoneon\, Argentina) and\nBaltic Neopolis Virtuosi quartet (Poland/Estonia): Radosław Pujanek (viiul)\, Łukasz Górewicz (viiul)\, Emilia Goch Salvador (vioola)\, Andreas Lend (tšello)\nTickets 15€/7€ via Piletilevi and at the door \n  \nPROGRAM \nJacob Gade (1879-1963) – Jalousie \nMarcelo Nisinman (b. 1970) – Hombre Tango \nIsaac Albeniz (1860-1909) – Tango D-duur nr.2 op. 165 \nMarcelo Nisinman – Cuando tu no estás \nAstor Piazzolla (1921-1992) – Jeanne & Paul \n Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion (arr. M. Nisinman) \nPAUS \nGerardo Matos (1897-1948) – Rodriguez La cumparsita  \nAstor Piazzolla – Adios Nonino (arr. M. Nisinman) \nMarcelo Nisinman – 4 for vogler \n  \nMARCELO NISINMAN\nis an internationally renowned bandoneon player\, composer and arranger. M. Nisinman studied the bandoneon with Julio Pane and composition with Guillermo Graetzer in Buenos Aries and Detlev Muller-Siemens in Basel. His compositions are diverse and original with their origins in Buenos Aires\, Nisinman also takes inspiration from other forms and techniques creating his own personal style that breaks the traditions and rules of the ‘Musica Porteña’ (Music from Buenos Aires). He has composed for a diverse range of groups from symphony orchestra\, to string quartet. M. Nisinman is much in demand as a soloist playing with orchestras and at festivals around the world. He has performed with\, Martha Argerich\, Gidon Kremer\, Britten Sinfonia\, Gary Burton\, Fernando Suarez Paz\, Assad Brothers\, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza\, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra\, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad. His work\, “Dark Blue Tango” was premiered in 2012 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina under Facundo Agudinwith Nisinman playing the bandoneon. M. Nisinman is frequently invited to work with ensembles and to festival as a composer/ performer. His invitations have included: Oxford Chamber Music Festival (in 2008)\, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland)\, Zeitkunst Festival (Berlin and Paris)\, Sonoro Festival (Bucharest)\, Consonances (St Nazaire – France)\, artist in residence at the Boswil Festival (Switzerland)\, Vogler String Quartet (in Germany and Ireland)\, and with Martha Argerich and Friends at the 2013 Ravenna Music Festival. M. Nisinman has composed a number of vocal works including “Desvios”\, with the text of Carlos Trafic (released on Acqua Records\, 2009) and his New Version of Maria de Buenos Aires (Acqua Records 2010). In 2009 together with the clarinetist Chen Halevi he formed his own quartet Tango Factory\, the group brings together four very different musicians to explore the tango\, playing works by Nisinman\, Porat\, and arrangements by Nisinman of works by Piazzolla\, Weill and others. \n  \nBALTIC NEOPOLIS VIRTUOSI\ngathers the artistic potential of the Baltic Sea Region. Its goal is to present the most valuable phenomena and tendencies in Polish music. In 2017 the project included 5 concert tours during which the ensemble performed a series of concerts in six countries of the Baltic area: Poland\, Norway\, Lithuania\, Estonia\, Germany and Sweden. BNV concerts promote the music of Polish composers\, both the prominent and well-known as well as talented young artists alongside music from the Baltic Sea Region for bigger chamber ensembles ranging from quintets to chamber orchestra. The ensemble consists of international renown musicians sharing the passion of chamber music: members of Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and outstanding soloists such as Bartłomiej Nizioł\, the winner of three Fryderyk Music Awards; Tomasz Tomaszewski\, Deutsche Oper concertmaster; Maria Machowska – concertmaster of National Philharmonic in Warsaw; Andriy Vivytovych – principal violist of Covent Garden Opera Orchestra in London; Gareth Lubbe – professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen; Adam Klocek – winner of the Grammy Award in 2014; Andreas Lend – one of the most titled Estonian cellists and Marcelo Nisinman\, one of today’s foremost bandoneon soloist. \nBNV has been awarded grants by the Polish Ministry and National Heritage of Poland\, Institute of Music and Dance and is co-financed by the City of Szczecin. \n  \n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/marcelo-nisinman-and-baltic-neopolis-virtuosi-tickets/
LOCATION:Hopner House\, Raekoja plats 18\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10146\, Estonia
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / PLMF 15 - jubilee gala
DESCRIPTION:7th February 2018 at 7 p.m\nEstonia Concert Hall\nSopranos Pille Lill\, Kristina Vähi and Olga Zaitseva\, tenor Oliver Kuusik\, baritone Atlan Karp\, bass Raiko Raalik\, violins Mari Tampere-Bezrodny\, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny\, Sigrid Kuulmann and Kristina Kriit\, viola player Yuri Zhislin (Russia/UK)\, cellists Peeter Paemurru and Andreas Lend\, accordion duo Henri Zibo and Mikk Langeproon\, bandoneon player Marcelo Nisinman (Argentina)\, saxophonist Virgo Veldi\, trumpet player Neeme Ots\, pianists Irina Zahharenkova\, Marko Martin\, Ralf Taal\, Johan Randvere\, Sofia Mazar (Israel) and Piia Paemurru\, pianotrio HEMEIS and Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi quartet (Poland/Estonia)\nTickets 50€/25€/15€ via Piletilevi\n\nPROGRAM \nArtur Lemba (1885-1963) – Fantaasia Eesti rahvaviisidele / Fantasy on Estonian Folk Tunes \nesitab / performing Johan Randvere     \nFranz Schubert (1797-1828) – Trio Es-duur op.post.148 D.897 “Notturno”\nAdagio\nesitavad / performing Mari Tampere-Bezrodny ja Peeter Paemurru\, klaveril / accompanist Irina Zahharenkova  \nFerenc Liszt (1811-1886) – Genfi kellad tsüklist “Rännuaastad” / The Bells of Geneva from the cycle “Years of Pilgrimage”\, Switzerland\, S160/R10\nesitab / performing Marko Martin  \nZoltán Kodály (1882-1967) – Duo viiulile ja tšellole / for violin and cello op.7\nIII Maestoso e largemente\, ma non troppo lento\nesitavad / performing Kristina Kriit ja / and Andreas Lend    \nSergei Rahmaninov (1873-1943) – Prelüüd / Prelude D-duur nr.4 op.23\nesitab / performing Ralf Taal    \nLéon Boëllmann (1862-1897) – Gooti Süit / Suite Gothique op.25\nIV Tokaata\nesitab / performing akordioniduo Henri Zibo ja / and Mikk Langeproon    \nGeorge Enesco (1881-1955) – Legend\nesitab / performing Neeme Ots\, klaveril / accompanist Ralf Taal \nAntonín Dvořák (1841-1904) – Klaveritrio / Piano trio nr.4 op.90\nVI Lento Maestoso – Vivace\nesitab / performing TRIO HEMEIS koosseisus Sigrid Kuulmann\, Andreas Lend ja Irina Zahharenkova    \nVAHEAEG / BREAK \nTõnu Kõrvits (s. 1969) – Thule visandid / Sketches of Thule\nII Amen au Issal olgu\nIII Ilma sõnadeta\nesitab / performing Virgo Veldi\, orelil / organist Tiia Tenno   \nGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) – Gilda ja Rigoletto duett “Parla\, siam soli” ooperist / from the opera “Rigoletto”\nesitavad / performing Kristina Vähi ja / and Atlan Karp\, klaveril / accompanist Piia Paemurru \nRobert Schumann (1810-1856) / Leopold Auer (1845-1930) – “Pühendus” / “Dedication”\nesitab / performing Sigrid Kuulmann\, klaveril / accompanist Ralf Taal    \nJohn Field (1782-1837) – Nokturn / Nocturne nr.4 A-duur\nesitab / performing Irina Zahharenkova    \nGeorg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) / Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) – “Passacaglia”\nesitavad / performing Anna-Liisa Bezrodny ja / and Juri Zhislin   \nFrancesco Cilea (1866–1950) – “Lamento di Federico” / “Frederico kaebus” ooperist / from the opera “L’Arlesiana”\nesitab / performing Oliver Kuusik\, klaveril / accompanist Sofia Mazar \nMarcelo Nisinman (b. 1970) – Hombre Tango\nAstor Piazzolla (1921-1992) – Oblivion (arr. M. Nisinman)\nesitavad / performing Marcelo Nisinman ja / and Baltic Neopolis Virtuosi kvartett / quartet  \nGaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) – Adina ja Dulcamara duett “Quanto a’more” ooperist “Armujook” / from the opera “L’elisir d’amore”\nesitavad / performing Olga Zaitseva ja / and Raiko Raalik\, klaveril / accompanist Piia Paemurru  \nPILLE LILL \nhas graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT) with two professions – music pedagogy (Prof. A. Vahter) and opera singing (assist. Prof. R. Gurjev). She continued her studies in the master’s program of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. J. Peters) and defended her master’s degree at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. L. Linko-Malmio). In 2004-2011 she furthered her skills in the context of doctoral studies at EAMT (Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen) and in 2005-2006 in the lied class of the University of Karlsruhe (professors Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmuth Höll). In addition\, she has taken part of several world-famous musicians’ master classes (Elisabeth Söderström\, Irwin Gage\, Emma Kirkby\, Mauriz Sillem\, Wilma Vernocchi etc.) P. Lill has performed as an opera\, oratorio and chamber singer in many countries. She has sung the lead role in close to 30 operas and she has cooperated with several reputed conductors. She has done many recordings for the Estonian National Broadcasting and her voice is perpetuated on a number of CD-s. P. Lill has been rewarded with the Big Dipper award for Best Female Singer (1996)\, she has been a laureate for Georg Ots Prize (2002)\, she has been a grantee of the Wagner Society Scholarship (1998) and a 3rd class honoree of the Order of Bishop Platon (2005). She has also been awarded with the UNICEF Bluebird Award (2009)\, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award (2014) and 4th class Order of the White Star (2016) and Esther of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia of Estonia. P. Lill was a vocal teacher in EAMT from 1997 to 2013 (assistant professor from 2003) and she has given master classes in many countries (Germany\, Russia\, Finland\, Belarus\, Latvia etc.) P. Lill was a board member of Estonian Composers’ Union from 2003-2009\, she is a board member of the Estonian Chamber of Culture and the Finno-Estonian Culture Fund. She is also the founder and creative director of the Pille Lill Music Foundation from 2003. \nKRISTINA VÄHI \nhas received accolades as a soloist in operas\, operettas and musicals. She graduated the G. Ots Music School (teacher Mare Jõgeva) and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre\, receiving both her BA and MA in operatic singing (teacher Riina Airenne\, prof. Tamara Novitšenko). K. Vähi additionally studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and taken part in many master classes (Eva Märtson\, Gerhard Kahry\, Christina Deutekom\, Rudolf Piernay\, Ingrid Kremling\, Judith Beckman\, Matti Pelo\, Monika Hauswalter). She won 1st Prize at the Klaudia Taev Competition for Young Opera Singers (1996). Between 2006-2013 K. Vähi worked as a soloist at the Estonian National Opera. She has also sung in performances of the Vanemuine Theatre\, the EAMT Opera Studio and the Kuressaare Opera Days; she has been invited to perform at festivals and the musicals of Smithbridges Production and Vanemuine Theatre. Since 1997 she has been a soloist of the Operetta Scretta creative union. Her roles include: Adina (Donizetti „L’elisir d’amore“)\, Baroness (Lortzing „The Poacher“)\, Ännchen (Weber „The Marksman“)\, Oscar (Verdi „A Masked Ball“)\, Mozart roles Zerlina\, First Dame and Despina („Don Giovanni“\, „Magic Flute“\, „Così fan tutte“); from Menotti operas Lucy\, Monica and Miss Pinkerton („Telephone“\, „Medium“\, „The Old Maid and the Thief“); from Rossini operas Fanny and Clorinda („The Bill of Marriage“\, „Cinderella“); Nedda (Leoncavallo „Clowns“)\, Ninetta (Prokofjev „The Love for Three Oranges“)\, Luise (Aints “Rehepapp”)\, Adele and Cagliari (Strauss „The Bat“\, “Viennese Blood”)\, Lisa and Stasi (Kálmán „Countess Mariza“\, “Silva”)\, Damon (Händel „Acis and Galatea“)\, Maria (Leigh „Man of La Mancha“)\, Soulgirl and Carlotta (Webber “Jesus Christ Superstar”\, “Phantom of the Opera”) etc. K. Vähi currently works as a freelance opera soloist. \nOLGA ZAITSEVA \nhas graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a bachelor’s degree in the singing class of associate prof. Pille Lill and prof. Jaakko Ryhäneni and she has attained her master’s degree from the Pedagogy of Interpretation\, majoring in singing. She has furthered her skills in the master classes of Ingrid Kremling\, Elizabeth Wilke and Yandwiga Rappé in Poland. Zaitseva has won I prize at the St. Petersburg contest “Song Has the Face of a Woman” (2008)\, spezial prize at the III and VII international contest “Opera\, the Soul of Mountains” in Poland (2008 and 2012) and two special prizes at the 2nd National Vocal Contest dedicated to Vello Jürna (2012). In 2015\, Olga Zaitseva was given a Crystal Shoe Award by the Estonian Theatre Union for being a “young person in theatre who has accomplished significant theatrical works” for the performances of Almirena\, Donna\, Mermaid – Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Rinaldo” – and Giannetta – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “L’elisir d’amore” (both in the Estonian National Opera). Her repertoire of opera roles includes Donna\, Mermaid (Händel’s „Rinaldo“)\, Giannetta (Donizetti’s „L’elisir d’amore“)\, II flower girl (Wagner’s „Parsifal“)\, Shepherd Girl (Ravel „The Child and the Spells“)\, Tebaldo (Verdi „Don Carlo“)\, Frasquita (Bizet „Carmen“)\, Sacerdotessa (Verdi „Aida“)\, Barbarina (Mozart „Le nozze di Figaro“). During a concert performance she has sung the role of Kupava (Rimski-Korsakov „The Snow Maiden“) and the soprano part of Fauré’s Requiem Op. 48. O. Zaitseva is working in the Estonian National Opera. \nOLIVER KUUSIK \nstudied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Associate Prof. Pille Lill and Prof. Virgilius Noreika. He received his Master’s de- gree in 2006 and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London)\, where he studied with Maestro Rudolf Piernay. Since 2008 he is the soloist of the Estonian National Opera. His repertoire includes Nemorino (Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love)\, Don Ramiro (Rossini’s La Cenerentola)\, Nicias (Massenet’s Thaïs\, PromFest)\, Christian (Tamberg’s Cyrano de Bergerac)\, Rinuccio (Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi)\, Ferrando (Mozart’s Così fan tutte)\, Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Manchester and London)\, Beppe and Arlecchino (Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci)\, Peter Quint and Prologue (Britten’s Turn of the Screw\, Tallinn Birgitta Festival 2008)\, Freddy (Loewe’s My Fair Lady). In London: Fenton (Verdi’s Falstaff)\, Polidoro (Mozart’s La Finta Semplice)\, Der Weise (Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück)\, Torque- mada (Ravel L’heure Espagnol)\, Edwin (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury at the International Gilber and Sullivani Festival\, UK)\, Brighella (Jonathan Dove’s The Little Green Swallow\, premiere in the UK). He has recorded Fleishman’s Rotchild’s Violin together with the Liverpool Royal Symphony Orchestra and sung Enjolras (Claude- Michel Schönberg’s Les Miserables\, Cameron Macintosh Production) and a lot more. O. Kuusik is also appreciated as an oratorio and chamber music singer. He has performed over 25 different oratorios and chamber music pieces such as Händel’s Messiah\, Haydn’s Creation\, Mozart’s Requiem etc. He has given concerts in Estonia\, Latvia\, Finland\, Sweden\, Norway\, Denmark\, Russia\, Germany\, France\, Canada\, U.S.A and England. In 2009 O. Kuusik was chosen as a laureate of the international competition of opera singers Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques (Cana- da). In 2008 he received the annual Estonian Theatre Award for his singing of Peter Quint and Prologue in Britten’s Turn of the Screw. O. Kuusik has won the 3rd Prize at the 5th Klaudia Taev International Competition for Young Opera Singers and the Kremling’s Special Prize for the best interpretation of German Song (the jury in- cluded Barbara Hendricks\, Jevgeni Nesterenko etc). He has also won the 1st Prize at the Hendrik Krumm Competition in 2006\, the 1st Prize at the Competition Young Singer (2002) and the PLMF award “Young Singer 2005. \nATLAN KARP \nhas studied in Georg Ots Tallinn Music School (teacher Tõnu Bachmann) and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater (Prof. Ivo Kuusk) and obtained his Master’s degree at the Sibelius Academy in Finland (Prof. Jorma Hynninen and Pekka Kähkönen). He has furthered his skills in the Maria Theatre of St. Petersburg and participated in the masterclasses of G. Janowitz\, T. Krause\, L. Gergijeva\, D. Hvorostovsky\, J. Obrastsova\, A. Amaretto and H. Hagegård. During 2007-2012 he was working in Vanemuine Theater as a leading opera soloist. A. Karp has been rewarded with the I prize in Tiit Kuusik International Competition (2000). His most important roles include: Scarpia (Puccini’s “Tosca”)\, Rigoletto (Verdi’s “Rigoletto”)\, Count di Luna (Verdi’s “Il trovatore”)\, Lescaut (Massenet’s “Manon”)\, Sharpless (Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”)\, Figaro (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)\, Kurwenal (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”)\, Leandro (Prokofiev’s “Love for three oranges”\, NO Estonia)\, Vodnik (Dvořák’s “Rusalka”\, Helsinki Alexander Theater)\, Don Alfonso (Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte”\, Savonlinna Music Academy)\, Onegin (Tchaikovsky’s “Jevgeni Onegin”) and Masetto (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”\, Sibelius Academy)\, Klingsor (Wagner’s “Parsifal”)\, Orestes (Strauss’ “Elektra”) and George III (P. M. Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King”\, Pärnu Opera). A. Karp’s repertoire of grand pieces is very versatile (Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem”\, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9\, Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells”\, Vaughan Williams’ “A Sea Symphony”\, Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” etc.)\, he has given numerous solo concerts and he has performed songs by Russian\, French\, German\, Finnish and Estonian composers from classical pieces to contemporary ones. \nPAVLO BALAKIN \nwho is one of the most outstanding opera basses\, graduated from Donetsk Music Academy as a jazz saxophone major in 2006. In 2002-2008 he sang in the choir of the Ukrainian National Opera. In 2008 Pavlo started to study singing in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Mati Palm) as well as started to work as a choir member of the Estonian National Opera\, where he continues as a soloist since 2013. In 2016 Pavlo Balakin made his debut in Italy singing Verdi’s “Attila” title role at Teatro Massimo di Palermo. His repertoire includes: the role of Méphistophélès (Gounod’ “Faust”)\, from Verdi’s operas Marquis d’Obigny (“La Traviata”)\, Count Ceprano (“Rigoletto”) and Count Horn (“Un ballo in maschera”) as well as Pontius Pilatus in J. S. Bach’s “St. John’s Passion” and bass parts in grand pieces – Beethoven Mass in C\, Strauss “Deutsche Motette” and Rossini “Petite messe solennelle”. He has cooperated with such conductors as D. Oren\, R. Frizza\, O. M. Wellber\, F. M. Carminati\, E. Klas and others. P. Balakin is a laureate of the Annual Estonian Theatre Award 2013. \nRAIKO RAALIK \nstarted to learn singing in Tartu H. Eller Music School in the singing class of Taisto Noor. At this moment\, he is studying in the Voice Department of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre at the second course of the bachelor level under the guidance of Taavi Tampuu. In addition to his studies he is singing in the choir of Savonlinna opera festival for the second season. He is contributing as a soloist in Vanemuine Theatre in the children’s opera of Eino Tamberg “Guugelmuugelpunktkomm”. In 2017 R. Raalik was awarded with the Marje and Kulder Sink “Young Singer 2017” prize.  \nANNA-LIISA BEZRODNY \nwas born into a family of musicians in Moscow. Already at the age of two she began her violin studies with her parents\, and at the age of nine she began her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki\, in the class of her parents\, Prof. Igor Bezrodny and Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny. Her later years took her to London\, resulting in winning the most prestigious award in Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, the Gold Medal (2006)\, previously won by masters such as baritone Bryn Terfel and cellist Jaqueline du Pre. Over the years Anna-Liisa Bezrodny has performed as a soloist with the London\, Helsinki\, Vilnius\, Jena and Turku Philharmonic\, Estonian National\, Riga and Moscow Symphony Orchestra TV6 and several other symphony orchestras as well as Gewandhaus Bach Orchestra\, Georgian\, Keskipohjanmaa (Finnish)\, Zurich\, Madrid\, Tallinn and other chamber orchestras. Concerts have taken place in such world-famous concert venues as Moscow Conservatoire Great Hall\, St. Petersbugh Philharmonic\, Finlandia-talo\, Royal Festival\, Barbican\, Wigmore and Cadogan Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Cologne Philharmonie etc. Cooperation has been done with several conductors (Sir Colin Davis\, Leif Segerstam\, Paavo Järvi\, Sian Edwards\, Eri Klas\, Nikolay Alekseyev\, Arvo Volmer\, Juha Kangas\, Paul Mägi\, Tibor Boganyi\, Robin O’Neil\, Mihkel Kütson\, etc.). A.-L. Bezrodny has successfully taken part of many international competitions obtaining several awards and prizes including Martin Musical Foundation Grand Prize (London\, 2003)\, Musicians Benevolent Fund Ian Fleming prize (London\, 2003)\, J. Heifetz International Competition’s 3rd prize (Vilnius\, 2005)\, J. Brahms International Competition’s 2nd prize (Pörtschach\, Austria\, 2005)\, Pro Musica prize (Helsinki\, 2006). In 2010 her first solo CD was released in cooperation with Estonia’s one of the most renowned pianists Ivari Ilja. In 2013\, ERP Records and A.-L. Bezrodny released a DVD featuring Haydn and Mozart Violin Concertos together\, which also gained great critical acclaim. A.-L. Bezrodny currently plays on an Amati violin\, kindly on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. \nSIGRID KUULMANN \nhas finished Tallinn Music High School and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Tiiu Peäske). She has furthered her skills in London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Hochschule in the violin class of maestro David Oistrahh’s student Prof. Rosa Fain. Her playing has been guided by\, among others\, professors Igor Bezrodny\, Dmitri Sitkovetsky\, Michaela Martin\, Pavel Vernikov\, Yfrah Neaman and Jüri Gerretz and her studies have been supported by Corporation of London\, British Council Baltic States\, Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst and Cultural Endowment of Estonia. S. Kuulmann-Martin is the laureate-prize winner of the H. Eller Violin Competition as well as many other competitions\, she has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in many European countries and in Scandinavia. She has received special recognition for playing Estonian composers’\, especially E. Tubin’s works. She has been the first one to perform such pieces in Estonia as Lutoslawski Partita\, Berio Sequenza VIII\, Virkhaus Violin Concerto No. 2\, Bizet-Waxman “Carmen-Fantasia” etc. Her repertoire includes most of the major violin concerts\, sonatas and virtuoso pieces from baroque to contemporary. S. Kuulmann-Martin has done several recordings for Estonian Public Broadcasting (EPB)\, including Sibelius Violin Concert with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. In cooperation with ERR and Estonian Record Productions many CD-s have been completed\, the last one in 2012 featuring Eduard Tubin’s violin music with pianist Marko Martin. S. Kuulmann-Martin is a scholar of The Association of Estonian Professional Musicians\, Cultural Endowment of Estonia and PLMF since 2007. She is a PhD student of musical interpretation in EAMT (2014\, Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny) and she is also working there as a professor. \nKRISTINA KRIIT \nhas obtained her master’s degree in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny\, 2004) and furthered her skills with Prof. Igor Bezrodny\, Eduard Schmieder\, Pavel Vernikov and Hermann Krebbers. In addition\, she has studied in Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg (2001-2002\, Prof. Hermann Krebbers). K. Kriit has taken part of several international competitions\, from which the most important are Heino Eller Competition in Tallinn (special prize\, 1996) and Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poland (Lublin\, 1997). K. Kriit is a valued contemporary musician and she has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in almost every country of Europe and Scandinavia. She has twice been a scholar of the reputed Holland Music Sessions. In 2005 K. Kriit was one of the founders of Tallinn String Trio and in 2009 trio “Madrigal” with flute and piano. She is a professor and a PhD student in EAMT (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny) and a II concert master of the Symphony Orchestra of the Estonian National Opera. \n\nANDREAS LEND \n\nstarted his musical studies in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Laine Leichter)\, received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2008\, 2010; Prof. Peeter Paemurru) and did additional studies in Finland at the Sibelius Academy (Prof. Hannu Kiiski and Heikki Pekkarinen 2005/2006). Furthermore A. Lend has participated in numerous master classes by many internationally recognized cellists (Frans Helmerson\, David Geringas\, Martin Ostertag\, Jan-Erik Gustafsson\, Niels Ullner\, Marko Ylonen\, Matias de Oliveira Pinto\, Aleksander Ivashkin\, Johannes Goritzki etc). A. Lend has won prizes at many competitions: 1st prize and Grand Prix at the International Contest-Festival “Renaissance” (Armenia\, 2013)\, 1st prize at the ESTA Estonian National Competition of Young Violinists and Cellists (2004) and 3rd prize at the Augusts Dombrovskis International Competition in (Riga\, Latvia; 2002). He was a laureate of the Estonian Young Performers Competition-Festival “Con Brio” (2008) and the International Cello Competition in Liezen (Austria\, 2000). In 2009 and 2010 A. Lend was awarded with the „International Holland Music Session” summer academy scholarship and the PLMF Music Trust award “Young Musician 2011”. In 2007\, A. Lend was chosen to take part of the European Union Youth Orchestra (chief conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy) which he has performed with all across Europe. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Finland\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Sweden\, Denmark\, Germany\, Italy\, Austria\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, Hungary\, Russia\, Canada\, England\, Slovenia\, Bulgaria\, Romania and Czech and he has been invited to Tallinn Chamber Music Festival and Winter Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival\, Järvi Summer Festival\, Kuopio Historical Keyboards Festival in Finland\, Festival de Valle d’Itria in Italy\, Spectrum Festival in Slovenia etc. During the last few years he has cooperated with acknowledged Polish string quartet Lutoslawski Quartet and string orchestras Camerata Nordica (Sweden) and Sinfonia Cymru (Wales). From 2004-2014 he was a member of the C-JAM cello quartet. Between 2006-2016 A. Lend was working as a cellist in the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and from 2016 he is in Estonian National Opera Symphony Orchestra. In addition\, he is a part of Prezioso String Quartet and Estonian Cello Ensemble and he is active as a soloist and a chamber musician in many other musical groups. In 2017\, he will have concerts in Estonia\, Russia\, Turkey and Czech and as a part of the Polish chamber ensemble Neopolis Virtuosi in Germany\, Norway\, Sweden and Lithuania.\nYURI ZHISLIN \nDescribed by The Strad as a “virtuoso with a truly Romantic temperament”\, Yuri Zhislin enjoys an active and illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician on violin and viola. In 1991\, Yuri entered the Royal College of Music in London\, winning the title of the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year in 1993. The orchestras that Yuri performed with include the Oxford Philharmonic\, the BBC Concert Orchestra\, the London Mozart Players\, the Lithuanian State Symphony and the Santiago de Chile Symphony\, to name a few. Zhislin made his recital debut at the New York Carnegie Weill Hall in 2014 and appeared at the major concert venues throughout Europe\, the USA\, South America\, Australia and Japan. His discography includes a recital CD released in 2005 on the SOMM label\, a violin/viola Duos CD for the Naxos label in 2009\, and a string trio CD for the Nymbus Alliance label with Dmitry Sitkovetsky on violin and Luigi Piovano on cello. A keen chamber musician\, Yuri has worked with such artists as Maria-Joao Pires\, Maxim Vengerov\, Barry Douglas and Natalie Clein among many others. Formed in 2004 by Yuri\, Camerata Tchaikovsky (formerly the Russian Virtuosi of Europe) is an ensemble comprising outstanding string players based in Europe. They have recently completed tours to both South America and Russia and released a debut CD on Orchid Classics\, which received great reviews and has been chosen “CD of the month” in April 2016 by the BBC Music Magazine. Yuri is a professor of violin and viola at the Royal College of Music in London and is in high demand as a visiting professor at the European Summer Academies. \n\nHENRI ZIBO \n\nstarted accordion studies in Haapsalu Music School (teacher Sirje Roogla) when he was 10 years old and graduated the music school with honors. His studies continued in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Aivi Tilk) from 2012 to 2015 and from fall of 2015 in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (teacher Tiina Välja). H. Zibo has been rewarded with III place (2008\, 2010) and I place (2012) in the North-West Estonia region accordionist competition; I place in the VII and VIII republican young accordionist competition; II place in a TV contest „Classic Stars 2014“ and II place in a contest „Naujene 2016“ which took place in Latvia\, Daugavpils. He has done solo performances with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, The Orchestra of the Estonian Defence Forces and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and taken master courses from different accordion masters (Mika Väyrynen\, Matti Rantanen\, Geir Draugsvoll\, Mikko Luoma\, Claudia Buder and Andreas Borregaard). H. Zibo has cooperated with many Estonian musicians and composers: Mihkel Poll\, Meelis Vind\, Johan Randvere\, Marcel Johannes and Katariina Maria Kits\, Marten Kuningas\, Marek Sadam\, Artjom Savitski\, Tauno Aints and maestro Arvo Pärt.\n\n\nMIKK LANGEPROON \nbegun his accordion studies at 8 years old in Tallinn Music School and graduated with honors from G. Ots Tallinn Music School (teacher Tiina Välja)\, where he was rewarded with G. Ots School’s silver badge. At the same time\, he graduated from Kadriorg German High School with a golden medal. From the fall of 2014 he is furthering his skills at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. Matti Rantanen). M. Langeproon has repeatedly been awarded at the competition “Best Young Musician”\, he is the winner of the older age group of Estonian Young Accordionists’ Competition (2014) and he has obtained 2nd place at the International Vilnius Accordion Competition. He has been chosen as the best instrumentalist of Tallinn Music School (2011) and three years in a row as the most outstanding student of the accordion department of G. Ots Tallinn Music School. In 2013 he was awarded with the Maxima Future Talent title in the music\, arts and culture category. A special prize of the Round Table Competition in 2014 and a successful performance in the TV contest “Classic Stars 2016” are also worth mentioning. M. Langeproon is active as a soloist as well as a chamber musician and he has performed in several reputed concert halls in Estonia and abroad\, in Classic Radio’s live broadcasting and in Estonian Television. \n\nMARCELO NISINMAN \nis an internationally renowned bandoneon player\, composer and arranger. M. Nisinman studied the bandoneon with Julio Pane and composition with Guillermo Graetzer in Buenos Aries and Detlev Muller-Siemens in Basel. His compositions are diverse and original with their origins in Buenos Aires\, Nisinman also takes inspiration from other forms and techniques creating his own personal style that breaks the traditions and rules of the ‘Musica Porteña’ (Music from Buenos Aires). He has composed for a diverse range of groups from symphony orchestra\, to string quartet. M. Nisinman is much in demand as a soloist playing with orchestras and at festivals around the world. He has performed with\, Martha Argerich\, Gidon Kremer\, Britten Sinfonia\, Gary Burton\, Fernando Suarez Paz\, Assad Brothers\, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared as a soloist with the WDR Big Band under Vince Mendoza\, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra\, Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire conducted by John Axelrod and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad. His work\, “Dark Blue Tango” was premiered in 2012 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina under Facundo Agudinwith Nisinman playing the bandoneon. M. Nisinman is frequently invited to work with ensembles and to festival as a composer/ performer. His invitations have included: Oxford Chamber Music Festival (in 2008)\, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland)\, Zeitkunst Festival (Berlin and Paris)\, Sonoro Festival (Bucharest)\, Consonances (St Nazaire – France)\, artist in residence at the Boswil Festival (Switzerland)\, Vogler String Quartet (in Germany and Ireland)\, and with Martha Argerich and Friends at the 2013 Ravenna Music Festival. M. Nisinman has composed a number of vocal works including “Desvios”\, with the text of Carlos Trafic (released on Acqua Records\, 2009) and his New Version of Maria de Buenos Aires (Acqua Records 2010). In 2009 together with the clarinetist Chen Halevi he formed his own quartet Tango Factory\, the group brings together four very different musicians to explore the tango\, playing works by Nisinman\, Porat\, and arrangements by Nisinman of works by Piazzolla\, Weill and others. \nVIRGO VELDI \nhas graduated from the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School (GOTMS\, Lect. Villu Veski\, Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1988) and from the Tallinn Conservatory (Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1993). He obtained his master’s degree at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Olavi Kasemaa\, 1997) and from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Prof. Pekka Savijoki\, 2004). In 1990\, he was awarded with the 3rd Prize at the Estonian Wind Players Competition in Tallinn and in 1996\, he won the 1st Prize and Audience’s Special Prize at the “Con Brio”\, a competition for young musicians in Estonia. He has worked as a saxophone teacher at the GOTMS and at the Sibelius High School in Helsinki. Since 2001 he is a teacher of the EAMT’s saxophone major (from 2012 an associate professor) and he has given numerous master classes in different European countries. V. Veldi has appeared as a saxophone soloist with Tallinn Music School String Orchestra\, EAMT Symphony Orchestra\, Estonian Radio Estrada Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra and he has taken part in Nyyd Ensemble’s projects. He has been invited to perform at several festivals (Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Tallinn Winter Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival etc). V. Veldi has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Risto Joost\, Lauri Sirp\, Mikk Murdvee\, Olari Elts\, Vello Pähn\, Jüri Alperten\, Nikolai Alexeyev etc. and he has given numerous chambermusic concerts in Estonia and abroad. His ensemble partners have been Ralf Taal\, Mati Mikalai\, Kai Ratassepp\, Piia Paemurru\, Ivari Ilja\, Tatjana Lepnurm\, Ulla Krigul\, Aare-Paul Lattik\, Ines Maidre and many others. From 1999 to 2004 V. Veldi was a member and the artistic director of the saxophone quartet “SaxEst”. \nNEEME OTS \nbegan 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 (Prof. Pertti Kulku\, Touko Lundell\, Simo Rantanen\, 2011). The studies continued at the same place at the masters’ level (Prof. Simo Rantanen)\, where he furthered his skills in the context of an Erasmus program during 2012-2013 in Madrid (Conservatory Superior de Musica de Madrid\, Prof. Enrique Rioja-Liz). N. Ots has taken part of the master courses of such distinguished trumpet pedagogues as Johann Gansch\, Maurice André\, Reinhold Friedrich\, Neeme Birk\, Manuel Blanco Gómez-Limon\, Adan Delgado Illada\, Bo Nilsson\, Gabriele Cassone\, Jury Bolshianov\, Ernesto Chulia\, Anthony Plog etc. He has been awarded with the Grand Prix at the International Trumpet Days “Tallinn 2014”\, II Prize at the Julius Vaks Trumpet Players’ Contest and III Prize at the International Hillar Kareva Trumpet Competition. Chamber concerts have brought him together with several recognized interprets like Margarita Voites\, Mati Palm\, Arete Teemets\, Irina Zahharenkova\, Ralf Taal\, Tiia Tenno\, Andres Köster etc. N. Ots has been a soloist in front of Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Tallinn Music High School Symphony Orchestra\, Polish Chamber Philharmonic and Narva City Orchestra and he has cooperated with such outstanding conductors as Jukka-Pekka Saraste\, Kristjan Järvi\, Leif Segerstam\, Markus Lehtinen\, Christoph Eschenbach\, Fabio Luisi\, George Pehlivanian etc. He has been a concert master of the trumpet group in several reputed youth orchestras like World Youth Wind Orchestra and German-Scandinavian\, Baltic Youth and Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra. With the aforementioned orchestras\, he has performed at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi\, Helsinki Finlandia Talo’s and Musiikkitalo’s grand hall\, Berlin Philharmonic etc. N. Ots has repeatedly taken part of the work of the Spanish National Symphony Orchestra\, Madrid Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and European Royal Ensemble. He has also been invited to perform as a soloist at the Estonian International Trumpet Days\, Võru Brass Music Days\, Tallinn Chamber Festival\, Rapla Church Music Festival\, Tallinn Winter Festival\, Estonian Concert’s project “Young Talents” and Tallinn Music Week. In 2015\, his first CD “Baroque Pictures” was released in cooperation with the organ player Tiia Tenno. \nSOFIA MAZAR \nis the co-founder and artistic director of JIOM (Jerusalem International Opera Master-Class)\, a vocal coach and a pianist. Dr. Sofia Mazar is one of the leading figures in the field of Italian and Russian Opera in Israel. She is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where she was granted the Europe Forum’s award for researching Italian Opera of Ottocento. Sofia is a member of the teacher’s staff of the Music & Dance Academy in Jerusalem since 1997\, where she serves as a vocal coach. In addition\, she serves as a vocal coach in the New Israeli Opera. Dr. Mazar has participated in the Israeli Festival\, Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva. She has also officiated many music festivals and masterclasses\, and performed regularly in recitals in Italy\, Israel\, Russia\, Belgium as well as Moscow International House of Music\, Turin University\, Brüssel Museum\, Ramat Gan Theater etc. \nIRINA ZAHHARENKOVA \nstarted with piano lessons with her mother when she was four\, studied at the Tallinn Georg Ots Music School (Prof Mare Ots\, 1991-1995) and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (piano: Prof Lilian Semper; harpsichord: Prof Maris Valk-Falk\, 1995-2000) where she got her MA in 2003 (Prof L. Semper). Irina continued at the EAMT doctoral studies in 2003–2011. In 2010 she also got her MA from Helsinki Sibelius Academy in Finland (Prof Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna). Irina has complimented her studies in the master classes of S. Kovachevich\, A. Hewitt\, A. Schiff\, V. Meržanov\, H. Dreyfus\, P. Hantaï\, C. Stembridge\, P. Vapavuori etc. Irina has won first prizes in major international piano competitions such as the M. Čiurlionise Competition (Lithuania\, 2003)\, Prémio Jaén Competition (Spain\, 2004)\, “Van Vlaanderen” Festival Piano Competition Brügges (Belgium\, 2004)\, Competition in Epinal (France\, 2004)\, “Praha Spring“ Harpsichord Competition (Czech Republic\, 2005)\, Georges Enescu Piano Competition (Rumenia\, 2005)\, Competition in Genf (Switzerland\, 2005)\, Alessandro Casagrande Competition (Italy\, 2006)\, Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig\, 2006)\, Villa-Lobos Competition (Brazil\, 2006) and A. Rubinštein Piano Competition (Iisrael\, 2008). Irina has performed in several international festivals in Italy\, Germany\, Finland\, Norway and Estonia. She has also performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra\, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre National de Lorraine. As an extremely versatile musician\, I. Zahharenkova frequently performs on the piano and harpsichord also in solo recitals and chamber music concerts. There have been released two CD’s with Irina interpretations: J. S. Bach “Goldberg Variations” BWV 988 (2010\, Classical Recordings) and D. Scarlatti Sonatas (2012\, Classical Records) and also DVD “Keyboard Juggleress” (Estonian Records Production 2009). Irina’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles from baroque to contemporary. Today she lives and teaches in Finland and at the EAMT. Irina has also persued organ\, chemistry\, as well as Estonian and Finnish philology. \nMARKO MARTIN \nstarted music studies at the age of 8 at Tallinn Music High School\, already winning the 1st prize at the International Young Pianists’ Competition held in Czechoslovakia at the age of 15. He repeated the same achievement a year later in Ukraine. M. Martin is a laureate of the Esther Honens International Piano Competition (2000) and a prize winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1998). 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. M. Martin has studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, Prof. Peep Lassmann) and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. Joan Havill). In addition\, he has taken part of the master classes of several outstanding pianists (Leon Fleisher\, Dmitri Baškirov\, Murray Perahia\, Paul Badura-Skoda etc). M. Martin has played as soloist with The Philharmonia Orchestra (London)\, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra\, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and many other orchestras and he has performed in Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall in London\, Hamburg Musikhalle\, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto etc. M. Martin has continuously been invited to perform as a valued ensemble partner and a soloist at different festivals (Festival della Valle d’Itria in Italy\, Tallinn Chamber Music Festival\, Tallinna Winter Festival etc.). He has released two CD’s with Schubert’s and Liszt’s creation (1998\, Abbas Records; 2002\, Arktos). The last CD features Eduard Tubin’s violin music with the violinist Sigrid Kuulmann (2012\, ERP). He has given concerts in Estonia\, Latvia\, Scandinavian countries\, Germany\, France\, Italy and United Kingdom and he is a scholar of the Estonian Association of Professional Musicians and PLMF Music Trust. From 2002 M. Martin works as a professor at the EAMT and is a member of the board of the Estonian Association of Professional Musicians. \nRALF TAAL\n\nhas graduated from Tallinn Music High School and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). In 1993\, he won the 1st Prize at the young pianists’ competition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of E. Grieg and in 1994 R. Taal won the National Pianists’ Competition and Young Interprets’ Competition-Festival “Con Brio”. He was a scholar of the Estonian Concert for the 1994/95 concert season. In 1995\, he was awarded with a special prize at the Schubert International Pianists’ Competition in Dortmund for being the youngest finalist. R. Taal has performed as a soloist with almost all Estonian orchestras and he has given numerous solo concerts. He has cooperated with such outstanding conductors as Eri Klas\, Paavo Järvi\, Olari Elts\, Arvo Volmer\, Tõnu Kaljuste\, Anu Tali etc. His solo programs mostly include music from Schubert\, Beethoven and Chopin. In addition to being active as a soloist R. Taal is also a valued ensemble partner for several vocal and instrumental soloists\, including singers Mati Palm\, Ain Anger\, Pille Lill\, Helen Lokuta\, Monika-Evelin Liiv and instrumentalists Indrek Vau\, Oksana Sinkova\, Toomas Vavilov\, Andrus Haav etc. R. Taal is working as a pedagogue at the EAMT and at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School and he was a concert master at the Estonian National Opera (1998-2014).  In 2011\, he was rewarded with the annual award of the Estonian Culture Endowment’s Music (Sound Design) Fund. In 2014\, he released his solo album with Chopin’s piano music “Magic of Sound” (Estonian Record Productions).\n\nJOHAN RANDVERE \n\nstarted his studies in Võru Music School (teacher Merike Kapp) and continued in Tallinn Music High School (teacher Marja Jürisson\, prof. Ivari Ilja). He finished his masters’ studies in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT\, prof. I. Ilja) in 2016 during which he replenished his skills in G. Verdi Conservatorio (2012-2015\, prof. Valerio Premuroso). From this year he is continuing at the doctorate level in EAMT. J. Randvere has been rewarded with prizes in different competitions: “Klaviermusik” in Vilnius (I place\, 2008)\, “Con Brio 2008” in Tallinn (finalist)\, EPTA Competition in Belgium (II place\, 2010)\, Competition for Young Musicians in Catania (I place & Grand Prix\, 2012)\, Competition for Young Musicians “Luciano Luciani” (III place\, 2013)\, “Coop” Competition for Pianists (II place\, 2013)\, “Andrea Baldi” Competition (I place & Grand Prix\, 2014)\, “Con Brio 2010” (audience Award as a part of Con Brio Trio & Holland Music Sessions’ Special Award)\, TV Competition “Classic Stars 2013” (finalist) and VIII Estonian Competition for Pianists (II place\, 2014). He has been rewarded with the PLMF Music Trust “Young Musician 2014” Award. J. Randvere has given concerts in Estonia\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Italy\, Vatican\, Belarus\, Finland\, USA\, Canada and Netherlands. He has performed as a part of different groups on such world stages as New York Carnegie Hall\, Vancouver Chan Center\, Minsk Philharmonic and Kaunas Philharmonic Grand Hall and Puccini Hall in Milan. He has repeatedly been invited to perform as a soloist in front of many orchestras such as Estonian National\, Latvian National\, Maladzetsna\, Theatre Vanemuine-\, Belarusian Radio and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra with such conductors as Risto Joost\, Toomas Vavilov\, Paul Mägi\, Jüri Alpterten\, Kaspar Mänd\, Tarmo Leinatamm\, Sasha Mäkilä\, Grigori Soroka\, Erki Pehk\, Mihhail Gerts and others. J. Randvere is a part of the Piano Orchestra and early music ensemble Heinavanker.\nPIIA PAEMURRU  \nconcert activity has brought her together with several outstanding musicians like Eilene Hannan\, Rhoda Achieng\, Virgilijus Noreika\, Jaakko Ryhänen\, Margarita Voites\, Mati Palm\, Pille Lill\, Nadia Kurem\, Hanna-Liina Võsa\, Oliver Kuusik\, Aare Saal\, Kädy Plaas\, Marion Melnik\, Priit Volmer\, Angelika Mikk\, René Soom\, Teele Jõks\, Helen Lokuta\, Pirjo Püvi\, Angelika Klas-Fagerlund\, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny\, Peeter Paemurru\, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny\, Andreas Lend\, Vahur Vurm etc. She graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory (prof. Laine Mets\, MA 1999) and in 1986 she began working at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre’s Vocal Department as a piano accompanist. P. Paemurru has often played as a piano soloist and as a part of different ensembles in the Baltics\, Scandinavia\, Germany and Russia. She has been rewarded with the Special Prize for the best piano accompanist at several singing competitions\, including five times at the International K. Taev Singing Contest in Pärnu. In cooperation with the Swedish singer Ingegerd Björklund she has recorded two CD-s and a CD with Marje Sink’s Christmas songs has been released with soloists Pille Lill\, Aare Saal and Oliver Kuusik (PLMF\, 2006). \nHEMEIS \nAt the 2017 Tallinn Winter Festival\, a piano trio named Hemeīs was born\, made up of three outstanding Estonian musicians. In the time of an independent Estonia\, very few sustainably active chamber groups have been founded\, which is why we at PLMF do all we can to make sure that trio Hemeīs remains in our music scene for years. The reaction to their first performances has been excellent. In 2018 they will have thier first tours abroad\, including performances in Helsinki\, at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw and EuropFest in Bucharest. \nBALTIC NEOPOLIS VIRTUOSI \ngathers the artistic potential of the Baltic Sea Region. Its goal is to present the most valuable phenomena and tendencies in Polish music. In 2017 the project included 5 concert tours during which the ensemble performed a series of concerts in six countries of the Baltic area: Poland\, Norway\, Lithuania\, Estonia\, Germany and Sweden. BNV concerts promote the music of Polish composers\, both the prominent and well-known as well as talented young artists alongside music from the Baltic Sea Region for bigger chamber ensembles ranging from quintets to chamber orchestra. The ensemble consists of international renown musicians sharing the passion of chamber music: members of Baltic Neopolis Orchestra and outstanding soloists such as Bartłomiej Nizioł\, the winner of three Fryderyk Music Awards; Tomasz Tomaszewski\, Deutsche Oper concertmaster; Maria Machowska – concertmaster of National Philharmonic in Warsaw; Andriy Vivytovych – principal violist of Covent Garden Opera Orchestra in London; Gareth Lubbe – professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen; Adam Klocek – winner of the Grammy Award in 2014; Andreas Lend – one of the most titled Estonian cellists and Marcelo Nisinman\, one of today’s foremost bandoneon soloist.\n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / Anna-Liisa Bezrodny & friends
DESCRIPTION: \n6th of February at 7 p.m\nHouse of the Blackheads\nAnna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin)\nKristina Kriit (violin)\nYuri Zhislin (viola\, Russia/UK)\nHenry-David Varema (cello)\nAndres Kungla (contrabass) \nIrina Zahharenkova (piano)\nTickets 15€/7€ via Piletilevi and at the door \n  \nPROGRAM \nGeorg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) / Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) – “Passacaglia” \n Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) – Terzetto C-duur op.74    \nI Introduzione. Allegro ma non troppo\nII Larghetto\n III Scherzo. Vivace (A minor) – Trio. Poco meno mosso\n IV Tema con variazioni. Poco Adagio – Molto \nPAUS\n \nFranz Schubert (1797-1828) – Klaverikvintett  (Forellikvintett) A-duur op.114 D.667                              \nI Allegro vivace\nII Andante\n III Scherzo. Presto\n IV Tema con variazione. Andantino\n V Finale. Allegro giusto\n\n  \nANNA-LIISA BEZRODNY \nwas born into a family of musicians in Moscow. Already at the age of two she began her violin studies with her parents\, and at the age of nine she began her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki\, in the class of her parents\, Prof. Igor Bezrodny and Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny. Her later years took her to London\, resulting in winning the most prestigious award in Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, the Gold Medal (2006)\, previously won by masters such as baritone Bryn Terfel and cellist Jaqueline du Pre. Over the years Anna-Liisa Bezrodny has performed as a soloist with the London\, Helsinki\, Vilnius\, Jena and Turku Philharmonic\, Estonian National\, Riga and Moscow Symphony Orchestra TV6 and several other symphony orchestras as well as Gewandhaus Bach Orchestra\, Georgian\, Keskipohjanmaa (Finnish)\, Zurich\, Madrid\, Tallinn and other chamber orchestras. Concerts have taken place in such world-famous concert venues as Moscow Conservatoire Great Hall\, St. Petersbugh Philharmonic\, Finlandia-talo\, Royal Festival\, Barbican\, Wigmore and Cadogan Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Cologne Philharmonie etc. Cooperation has been done with several conductors (Sir Colin Davis\, Leif Segerstam\, Paavo Järvi\, Sian Edwards\, Eri Klas\, Nikolay Alekseyev\, Arvo Volmer\, Juha Kangas\, Paul Mägi\, Tibor Boganyi\, Robin O’Neil\, Mihkel Kütson\, etc.). A.-L. Bezrodny has successfully taken part of many international competitions obtaining several awards and prizes including Martin Musical Foundation Grand Prize (London\, 2003)\, Musicians Benevolent Fund Ian Fleming prize (London\, 2003)\, J. Heifetz International Competition’s 3rd prize (Vilnius\, 2005)\, J. Brahms International Competition’s 2nd prize (Pörtschach\, Austria\, 2005)\, Pro Musica prize (Helsinki\, 2006). In 2010 her first solo CD was released in cooperation with Estonia’s one of the most renowned pianists Ivari Ilja. In 2013\, ERP Records and A.-L. Bezrodny released a DVD featuring Haydn and Mozart Violin Concertos together\, which also gained great critical acclaim. A.-L. Bezrodny currently plays on an Amati violin\, kindly on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. \nKRISTINA KRIIT\nhas obtained her master’s degree in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny\, 2004) and furthered her skills with Prof. Igor Bezrodny\, Eduard Schmieder\, Pavel Vernikov and Hermann Krebbers. In addition\, she has studied in Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg (2001-2002\, Prof. Hermann Krebbers). K. Kriit has taken part of several international competitions\, from which the most important are Heino Eller Competition in Tallinn (special prize\, 1996) and Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poland (Lublin\, 1997). K. Kriit is a valued contemporary musician and she has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in almost every country of Europe and Scandinavia. She has twice been a scholar of the reputed Holland Music Sessions. In 2005 K. Kriit was one of the founders of Tallinn String Trio and in 2009 trio “Madrigal” with flute and piano. She is a professor and a PhD student in EAMT (Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny) and a II concert master of the Symphony Orchestra of the Estonian National Opera. \nYURI ZHISLIN\ndescribed by The Strad as a “virtuoso with a truly Romantic temperament”\, Yuri Zhislin enjoys an active and illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician on violin and viola. In 1991\, Yuri entered the Royal College of Music in London\, winning the title of the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year in 1993. The orchestras that Yuri performed with include the Oxford Philharmonic\, the BBC Concert Orchestra\, the London Mozart Players\, the Lithuanian State Symphony and the Santiago de Chile Symphony\, to name a few. Zhislin made his recital debut at the New York Carnegie Weill Hall in 2014 and appeared at the major concert venues throughout Europe\, the USA\, South America\, Australia and Japan. His discography includes a recital CD released in 2005 on the SOMM label\, a violin/viola Duos CD for the Naxos label in 2009\, and a string trio CD for the Nymbus Alliance label with Dmitry Sitkovetsky on violin and Luigi Piovano on cello. A keen chamber musician\, Yuri has worked with such artists as Maria-Joao Pires\, Maxim Vengerov\, Barry Douglas and Natalie Clein among many others. Formed in 2004 by Yuri\, Camerata Tchaikovsky (formerly the Russian Virtuosi of Europe) is an ensemble comprising outstanding string players based in Europe. They have recently completed tours to both South America and Russia and released a debut CD on Orchid Classics\, which received great reviews and has been chosen “CD of the month” in April 2016 by the BBC Music Magazine. Yuri is a professor of violin and viola at the Royal College of Music in London and is in high demand as a visiting professor at the European Summer Academies.\n\nHENRY-DAVID VAREMA\ngraduated from the Tallinn Music High School in 1987 with Laine Leichter and from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1992 with Peeter Paemurru. After that he furthered his studies in the cello class of Walter Nothas at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and at the Universität der Künste Berlin under the guidance of Wolfgang Boettcher. In 2005 Varema earned his PhD at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). H.-D. Varema is regularly giving concerts with different interprets. His ensemble partners include Ivari Ilja\, Mihkel Poll\, Sten Lassmann\, Hanna Heinmaa\, Age Juurikas\, Ralf Taal\, Andrus Haav\, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny\, Mikk Murdvee\, Triin Ruubel\, Mari Poll\, Johanna Vahermägi\, Mati Lukk\, Toomas Vavilov etc. Previously\, H.D. Varema has been the member of Tallinn String Quartet\, which has recorded music for Estonian Radio and albums (including “Estonian Composers’ String Quartets”\, 2004). H.-D. Varema has also recorded for the labels Antes and Warner Classics. In 2001\, he gave the world premiere performance of Eino Tamberg’s Cello Concerto\, which he recorded together with the Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Paul Mägi in June 2016. As a chamber musician\, H.-D. Varema has also been a part of international collectives. He was a member of the Berlin based Petersen Quartet (2003–2009)\, with whom he performed in several European countries (including concert venues such as London Wigmore Hall\, Berlin Philharmonie\, Munich (Herkulessaal)\, in USA (New York Carnegie Hall) and Australia. The quartet has recorded 9 albums\, from which the album that was recorded in 2006 with soprano Christine Schäffer was rewarded with the ECHO Klassik award in Germany (2007). H.-D. Varema has also participated in the work of the new music ensemble Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt. H.-D. Varema has worked as the guest concert master of the cello group of the Northern Sinfonia chamber orchestra in the UK\, the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra in Germany as well as the Auckland Philharmonia symphony orchestra in New Zealand. During the 2014 season he was working as the associate concert master of the cello group with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Since 1995 he has been the concert master of the cello group of the Estonian National Opera Symphony Orchestra and since 2001 he has been working as a lector for cello and quartet at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (since 2016 as a professor). In addition to his work as a pedagogue at EAMT\, he has also given several cello and chamber music master courses\, including at music universities and festivals in Europe\, USA\, Canada and Australia and he has been a jury member of many different competitions.\n\nIRINA ZAHHARENKOVA\nstarted with piano lessons with her mother when she was four\, studied at the Tallinn Georg Ots Music School (Prof Mare Ots\, 1991-1995) and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (piano: Prof Lilian Semper; harpsichord: Prof Maris Valk-Falk\, 1995-2000) where she got her MA in 2003 (Prof L. Semper). Irina continued at the EAMT doctoral studies in 2003–2011. In 2010 she also got her MA from Helsinki Sibelius Academy in Finland (Prof Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna). Irina has complimented her studies in the master classes of S. Kovachevich\, A. Hewitt\, A. Schiff\, V. Meržanov\, H. Dreyfus\, P. Hantaï\, C. Stembridge\, P. Vapavuori etc. Irina has won first prizes in major international piano competitions such as the M. Čiurlionise Competition (Lithuania\, 2003)\, Prémio Jaén Competition (Spain\, 2004)\, “Van Vlaanderen” Festival Piano Competition Brügges (Belgium\, 2004)\, Competition in Epinal (France\, 2004)\, “Praha Spring“ Harpsichord Competition (Czech Republic\, 2005)\, Georges Enescu Piano Competition (Rumenia\, 2005)\, Competition in Genf (Switzerland\, 2005)\, Alessandro Casagrande Competition (Italy\, 2006)\, Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig\, 2006)\, Villa-Lobos Competition (Brazil\, 2006) and A. Rubinštein Piano Competition (Iisrael\, 2008). Irina has performed in several international festivals in Italy\, Germany\, Finland\, Norway and Estonia. She has also performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra\, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra\, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre National de Lorraine. As an extremely versatile musician\, I. Zahharenkova frequently performs on the piano and harpsichord also in solo recitals and chamber music concerts. There have been released two CD’s with Irina interpretations: J. S. Bach “Goldberg Variations” BWV 988 (2010\, Classical Recordings) and D. Scarlatti Sonatas (2012\, Classical Records) and also DVD “Keyboard Juggleress” (Estonian Records Production 2009). Irina’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles from baroque to contemporary. Today she lives and teaches in Finland and at the EAMT. Irina has also persued organ\, chemistry\, as well as Estonian and Finnish philology.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS\n	\n \n\n 
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/tallinn-winter-festival-2018-anna-liisa-bezrodny-friends/
LOCATION:The House of the Blackheads\, Pikk 26\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10133\, Estonia
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20180205T190000
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Winter Festival 2018 / Pille Lill (soprano) and Sofia Mazar (piano)
DESCRIPTION:5th Feruary at 7 p.m\nThe House of the Blackheads\nPille Lill (soprano)\nSofia Mazar (piano\, Israel)\nProgramme: Tchaikovsky\, Strauss\, Verdi\, Rachmaninov etc \nTickets 15€/7€ via Piletilevi and at the door\n \n  \nPROGRAM \nRichard Strauss (1864-1949)\n– “Cäcilie”\n– “Morgen!” / “Homme!” / “Tomorrow!”\n– “Zueignung” / “Pühendus” / ”Dedication”\n– “Allerseelen” / “Hingedepäev” / “All souls´ day”\n– “Ich trage meine Minne” / ”Ma kannan endas armastust” / “I carry the love in me” \nEduard Tubin (1905-1982)\n– “Igatsus” / „Yearning“\n– “Sügise päikene” / „Autumn Sun“ \nSergei Rahmaninov (1873-1943)\n– „Весенние воды“ / „Kevadised veed“ / „Spring waters“\n– “Дитя! Как цветок ты прекрасна” / “Kui lilleke nurmel” / “My child\, your beauty is like a flower”\n– „Сирень“ / „Sirel“ / „A Lilac“\n– „У моего окна“ / „Minu akna juures“ / “Before My Window” \nPjotr Tšaikovski (1840-1893)\n– “Забыть так скоро“ / „Unustada nii kiiresti“ / „Forget so soon“\n– “День ли царит“ / „Kas päev kestab“ / „Does the day reign?” \nLeonard Bernstein (1918-1990)\n– muusikalist “West side story“ / ”West Side’i lugu”\n– Tüdruku laul “Somewhere” / “Kusagil”\n– Maria laul “I feel pretty” / “Ma tunnen end ilusana” \nGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)\n– Elvira aaria / Aria of Elvira “Ernani\, Ernani involami!” / “Ernani\, Ernani\, save me” ooperist / from the opera\n“Ernani” \n  \nPILLE LILL \nis a renowned opera singer and a cultural activist\, who started her journey as a musician with piano studies at Pärnu Children’s Music School. She has graduated the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater (EAMT) with two specialties – music pedagogy (Prof. A. Vahter) and opera singing (assistant lecturer R. Gurjey). She continued her studies at the master’s level of the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Prof. J. Peters) and defended her master’s degree at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Prof. L. Linko-Malmiö). During 2004–2011 she furthered her skills at the doctorate level of EAMT (Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen) and in 2005-2006 at the University of Music Karlsruhe in the German lied class (professors Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll). In addition\, she has taken part of the masterclasses of several world-famous musicians (E. Söderström\, I. Gage\, E. Kirkby\, M. Sillem\, W. Vernocchi\, G. Hinz etc.). P. Lill has performed as an opera\, oratorio and chamber music singer in numerous countries. She has sang lead roles in nearly 30 operas: Mozart (Countess\, Marriage of Figaro; Donna Anna\, Don Giovanni; Pamina\, Magic Flute); Puccini (Mimi\, La Bohéme; Cio-cio san\, Madama Butterfly; Tosca\, Tosca); Verdi (Elisabeth\, Don Carlos; Desdemona\, Othello; Violetta\, Traviata; Elvira\, Ernani; Amelia\, Un ballo in Maschera; Lady Macbeth\, Macbeth; Aida\, Aida); Weber – Agathe\, Der Freischütz; Wagner – Venus\, Tannhäuser; Tchaikovsky – Liza\, The Queen of Spades; Mascagni – Santuzza\, Cavalleria Rusticana; Tubin – Barbara\, Barbara von Tisenhusen\, Prokofjev – Fata Morgana\, The Love for Three Oranges etc. Her repertory includes a number of soprano parts from grand musical pieces (Mahler – 4. and 8. Symphony; Dvorák\, Mozart\, Brahms and Verdi – Requiem; Beethoven – 9. Symphony; Tobias – Des Jona Sendung; Shostakovich – 14. Symphony; Sibelius – Kullervo etc.). She has premiered works by many contemporary composers (Sumera\, Põldmäe\, Kaumann\, Pertmann\, Pozdejev\, Andersson\, Reinvere etc.) and cooperated with distinguished conductors (G. Rozhdestvensky\, C. F. Cillario\, N. Järvi\, E. Klas\, C. M. Prieto\, N. Aleksejev\, J. Storgårds\, G. Rinkevičius\, A. Volmer\, M. Kütson\, J.Alperten\, O. Elts\, A. Mustonen\, A. Tali\, P. Mägi\, L. Sirp\, R. Joost etc). Her voice is captured on numerous recordings for Estonian Public Broadcasting and on many CD-s – R. Tobias\, Des Jona Sendung (con. N. Järvi/Grammofon AB BIS 1995; DVD\, VAI 2009); M. Sink\, Christmas Songs (PLMF 2006); L. Sumera\, To Reach Yesterday (Megadisc 2005); A. Kapp\, Organ and Chamber Music (Eres 2000); J. Torrim\, Organ Music/Orgelwerke (Antes 1997). P. Lill has been awarded with the Big Dipper Award for Best Female Singer (1996) and she has been a laureate of the Georg Ots prize (2002)\, a grantee of the Wagner Society Scholarship (1998) and the 3rd class honoree of the Order of Bishop Platon (2005). She has been rewarded with the UNICEF Bluebird Award (2009)\, the Music Endowments’ Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment (2014)\, the 4th class Order of the White Star (2016) and the Esther of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia (2017). From 1997 to 2003 P. Lill was a vocal teacher in the Voice Department of EAMT (assistant professor since 2003)\, instructed master’s level students in the German lied class (2007-2013) and was the director of the opera studio (2004-2005). She has given master classes in different countries (Estonia\, Germany\, Finland\, Russia\, Belarus\, Latvia). She has been a part of the jury of the National Vocal Contest (2009\, 2013\, 2017)\, St. Petersburg Chopin (2015) and Rachmaninov (2016) International Competition for singers. From 2003-2009 she was a board member of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians and she is a board member of the Estonian Chamber of Culture and the Finnish-Estonian Culture Fund. In 2003 she founded PLMF Music Trust and she is the creator and leader of PLMF Academia Nova hobby school since 2017. \n  \nSOFIA MAZAR \nis the co-founder and artistic director of JIOM (Jerusalem International Opera Master-Class)\, a vocal coach and a pianist. Dr. Sofia Mazar is one of the leading figures in the field of Italian and Russian Opera in Israel. She is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where she was granted the Europe Forum’s award for researching Italian Opera of Ottocento. Sofia is a vocal coach at the Music & Dance Academy in Jerusalem (since 1997) and at the New Israeli Opera. Dr. Mazar has participated in the Israeli Festival and played with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva. She has also initiated many music festivalsand masterclasses\, and performed regularly in recitals in Italy\, Israel\, Russia\, Belgium as well as Moscow International House of Music\, Turin University\, Brüssel Museum\, Ramat Gan Theater etc.\n\n\n			\n				BUY TICKETS
URL:https://plmf.ee/en/event/tallinn-winter-festival-2018-pille-lill-and-safia-mazar-tickets/
LOCATION:The House of the Blackheads\, Pikk 26\, Tallinn\, Harjumaa\, 10133\, Estonia
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Festivals
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