Orchestras
Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Olari Elts
- 8+ years of playing experience
- Working language: English
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Programme:
Joseph Schwantner – The Awakening Hour
3fl, picc, 3ob, corA, 3cl, bcl, 2asax, tsax, bsax, 2fg, cfg, 4cor, 3trp, 3trb, btbn, 2euph, 2tuba, timp, 3perc (I: crot [2 octaves], chimes, timb, bng; II: vib, lg tam-t, 4tom-t; III: glsp, concert b.d)-pno[amplified]-2db[amplified]Listen to the piece
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Eino Tamberg – Concerto grosso op. 5
Solo: fl, cl, asax, fg, trp, pft
Tutti: timp, piatti, campanelli, harp, strings
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George Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody no. 1
3fl (picc), 2ob, corA, 2clA, 2fg, 4cor, 2trpC, 2cornetA, 3trb, tuba, 3 timp, tgl, SD, cyms, 2harps, strings.
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Sergei Rahmaninov – Symphonic Dances, op. 45
2fl, picc, 2ob, corA, 2ck, bcl, asax, 2fg, cfg, 4cor, 3trp, 3trb, tuba, timp, 4perc (tgl/tamb/SD/glsp/xyl/2tam-t/t.bells/cyms/BD) harp, pft, strings
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Olari Elts’ passion for developing concert programmes rich with invention has earned him much praise on the international music scene. Elts began his tenure as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in 2020/21 season. Since 2018, he is also Artistic Advisor of the Kymi Sinfonietta.
Olari Elts has appeared as a guest conductor with such orchestras as Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Finnish Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Dublin Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Soloists with whom he collaborates include Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Brett Dean, Isabelle Faust, Alban Gerhardt, Martin Grubinger, Martin Helmchen, Stephen Hough, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Kari Kriikku, Karita Mattila, Alexander Melnikov, Maxim Rysanov, Baiba Skride, Lara St. John, Simon Trpčeski, and Antoine Tamestit. Additionaly to classical symphonic music Olari Elts considers it important to make Estonian music known both in Estonia and abroad.
Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor Andres Kaljuste
- 6-9 years of playing experience
- Working language: English
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Programme:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Horn Concerto No 1, KV 412
2ob, 2fg, strings
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Gustav Holst – St Paul’s Suite
for strings
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Joseph Haydn – Symphony No 94, „Surprise”
2fl, 2ob, 2fag, 2cor, 2trp, timp, strings
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As a versatile musician, Andres Kaljuste is known to the audience as a conductor and instrumentalist both on violin and viola.
As a conductor Kaljuste has appeared as a guest conductor with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Lahti Sinfonia, Tampere Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Opera, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and Odense Symphony Orchestra, among others. In the 20/21 season he will make his debut with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra as well as return visits to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Estonian National Opera.
His musical path began with violin studies in the class of Aino Riikjärv. After graduating from the Tallinn Music High School he continued his studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Royal Music High School in Stockholm and in Berlin, at the Hanns Eisler Music High School. Urmas Vulp, Nina Balabina, Oleg Balabine and prof. ULf Wallin have been his teachers.
Kaljuste has been working at the Sockholm Lila Akademien as teacher for violin and viola, conductor and instructor of instrumental ensembles. He has been conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, lector of string instruments and chamber music teacher. Andres Kaljuste also appears as a chamber musician on the Signum and Navona labels.
As a versatile musician, Andres Kaljuste is known to the audience as a conductor and instrumentalist both on violin and viola.
As a conductor Kaljuste has appeared as a guest conductor with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Lahti Sinfonia, Tampere Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Opera, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and Odense Symphony Orchestra, among others. In the 20/21 season he will make his debut with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra as well as return visits to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Estonian National Opera.
His musical path began with violin studies in the class of Aino Riikjärv. After graduating from the Tallinn Music High School he continued his studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Royal Music High School in Stockholm and in Berlin, at the Hanns Eisler Music High School. Urmas Vulp, Nina Balabina, Oleg Balabine and prof. ULf Wallin have been his teachers.
Kaljuste has been working at the Sockholm Lila Akademien as teacher for violin and viola, conductor and instructor of instrumental ensembles. He has been conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, lector of string instruments and chamber music teacher. Andres Kaljuste also appears as a chamber musician on the Signum and Navona labels.
Small Orchestra
- Only strings
- 3-7 years of playing experience
- Working language: Estonian and English
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Programme:
Georg Philip Telemann – Burlesque de Quixotte
strings, percussion
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Nancy Pettersen – Hoedown
strings, percussion
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Tõnu Kõrvits – Concerto Semplice (guitar concert), I movement
strings
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Olav Ehala – A Dance in Kadriorg
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Achim Fiedler
is a conductor with a great stylistic range. Beside numerous first performances his interests lie in repertoire discoveries from baroque to modern times. Born in Stuttgart in 1965, he studied violin in Cologne and in London, followed by studies of orchestral conducting in Milan and Stuttgart. Besides being assistant to Bernard Haitink and Carlo Maria Giulini, Achim Fiedler was laureate of the Grzegorz Fitelberg conducting competition in Katowice (1995) and winner of the conducting competition of Cadaqués (1996).
From 1998 to 2012 he was artistic director of the chamber orchestra Lucerne Festival Strings, founded by Rudolf Baumgartner in 1956. As guest conductor he worked with over 40 orchestras and appeared at famous music festivals.
Working with young musicians has always played a key role for Achim: He has worked with the the Spanish Youth Orchestra JONDE, the Tanglewood Music center orchestra, the Kinderorchester NRW and is director of DOJO, the Youth orchestra at his home town Dortmund for over 10 years.
Susanna Biosca studied violin and viola in her hometown of Barcelona and continued her studies in London (Trinity College of Music) and Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Musik). She has completed her education at the Barcelona Theatre and Ballet School and studied Estonian philology at Tallinn University. From 2011 to 2020, she taught at the Olfen Academy of Music in Germany. Since 2021, she has been a teacher of chamber music, orchestra and violin and viola at the Dortmund School of Music.