Tallinn Chamber Music Festival (Tallinna Kammermuusika Festival)
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| Country and Region | Estonia — Harjumaa |
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| Type of Festival | Music |
| Location of Festival | Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia |
| Festival Contact Information | Tallinna Kammermuusika Festival |
| Festival Description | In summer 2005 Tallinn Chamber Music Festival had its opening concert with a great amount of publicity. The Festival takes place in the historic concert halls and churches in one of the most beautiful cities of the Baltic States. The audience from Tallinn and all over Estonia together with tourists will enjoy numerous classical music concerts. Tallinn Chamber Music Festival is created to enrich and add some classical spice to the busy cultural life in Tallinn. It is the only major music event in Estonia that presents the talent of Estonian musicians alone. The Pille Lill Music Fund (PLMF) organizes the Festival in cooperation with Tallinn City Government, the Ministery of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. The Festival’s artistic director is the outstanding Estonian opera singer Pille Lill. With the help of esteemed private persons PLMF presents the Marje ja Kuldar Sink’s (mother and son, composers who had strong ties with Tallinn’s music life for many years) award “Young Musician 2012. |
| Festival Dates | August 24 - 31, 2012 |
| Festival Links |
Festival Events:
Programming 2012:
- August 24
- 12:00 festival opening
Concerts in the festival tent at Vabaduse Square until 18.30 - 19.00 St John´s Church
Arrangement of Luigi Rossi´s opera L’Orfeo, by Italian composers Daniela Terranova and Fabio Ceresa
Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Ettore Papadia (Italy), Kristel Pärtna (Euridice), Kristel Kurik (Orfeo), Candida Guida (Aristeo, Italy), Pia Raffaele (IV Soprano, Italy), Graziana Palazzo (Grazia/Nimfa/Parca, Italy), Markus Nykanen (Venere, Finland), Emanuele Cordaro (Satiro/Plutone, Italy)
(8€, 5€)
- 12:00 festival opening
- August 25
- 10:00-18.30 — concerts in the festival tent
- 19.00 Tallinn Town Hall
Sigrid Kuulmann (violin), Oksana Sinkova (flute), Marko Martin (piano)
(8€, 5€)
- August 27
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hal
Sigrid Kuulmann (violin), Johanna Vahermägi (viola), Andreas Lend (cello), Marko Martin (piano)
Programme: Sibelius, Halvorsen, Longo and others
(8€, 5€)
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hal
- August 28
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hall
Oksana Sinkova (flute), Andreas Lend (cello), Anna Maria McElwain (clavichord, Finland/USA), Dr. Michael Tsalka (piano, Israel/Sweden)
Programme: Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and others (8€, 5€)
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hall
- August 29
- 19.00 — Hopner House
Madis Kari (clarinet), Artimus Ensemble: Magdalena Filipczak (violin, Poland), Henry-David Varema (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (piano)
Programme: Beethoven, Rahmaninov jt
(8€, 5€)
- 19.00 — Hopner House
- August 30
- 17.00 — St Michael´s Swedish Church
YOUNG TALENTS
Ivi Ots (violin), Marike Kruup (violin), Marten Altrov (clarinet), Age Juurikas (piano)
(5€, 3€)
- 17.00 — St Michael´s Swedish Church
- August 30
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hall
Helen Lokuta (mezzosoprano, Estonian National Opera), Rene Soom (baritone, Estonian National Opera), Ralf Taal (piano)
Programme: Debussy, Mouquet, Würst and others
(8€, 5€)
- 19.00 — Tallinn Town Hall
- August 31
- 17.00 — St Michael´s Swedish Church
YOUNG TALENTS
Kadri Kipper (soprano), Aule Urb (mezzosoprano), Toomas Kolk (baritone), Pavlo Balakin (bass), Piia Paemurru (piano)
(5€, 3€)
- 17.00 — St Michael´s Swedish Church
- August 31
- 19.00 — Hopner House
Kama Grott (oboe, Poland) and Artimus Ensemble: Magdalena Filipczak (violine, Poland), Ula Ulijona (viola, Lithuania), Henry-David Varema (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (piano)
Programme: Klein, Dohnany and others
(8€, 5€)
- 19.00 — Hopner House
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Social networks 2012:
- Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pille-Lill-Music-Fund/111480485547238 - Twitter
http://twitter.com/PLMF_EST - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/plmfond
Practical Info:
Festival hotel packages 2012:
- Information online at
http://plmf.ee/festival-packages_eng
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