Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category for his work on composer Arvo Pärt’s album “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. “Adam’s Lament” was recorded with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Sinfonietta Riga, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Latvian Radio Choir and the […]
We asked Estonian startup entrepreneurs and others related to the phenomenon otherwise known as #estonianmafia, what global trends and technology are they personally looking forward to in 2014? This is what they came up with, in no particular order. I Kristo Käärmann – CEO, Transferwise Something to follow in payments/finance inspired by Bitcoin. More results
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For the “Global Estonians” feature, we have usually interviewed people who have left Estonia in the last 10-15 years, after the country regained independence and the “iron curtain” was lifted. Katrin Laur is an exception – she’s among the relatively few who managed to leave the then-Soviet Estonia in 1982. Katrin is a filmmaker and
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An Estonian literary classic, Anton Hansen Tammsaare’s “Truth and Justice” is going to be published in English for the first time. While Estonia has in the last few years become internationally better known for its musical heritage, its literature is almost unheard of – simply because so little has been published in English, the most
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An American-Estonian couple, Steve Martinez and Hilja Hõlpus Martinez, has opened a little internet coffee house in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Called Alo café, it is named after the famous Estonian composer during the Singing Revolution, Alo Mattiisen. Both of Estonian heritage, but born in the US, it is a new challenge for
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An Estonian architecture firm and a local council are planning to use chippings from an oil-shale quarry to build the largest pyramids in the world in Aidu, North-Eastern Estonia by 2030. The ancient Egyptians built most of the pyramids as tombs for pharaohs and their consorts. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes.
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Estonia will be represented at the EXPO 2015 world fair in Milan by “Gallery of ___”, designed by the Tallinn-based architecture firm Kadarik & Tüür. EXPO is an international exhibition held every five years in different cities around the world and showcases the progress made by the attending countries. Fourteen entries were submitted to the concept,
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Kadri Bennett lives in Denver, Colorado, in the US. She has lived in States for eight years, has four children with her American husband and currently runs her media business with him. Kadri, what made you leave Estonia and how did you end up in the US? After graduating from the University of Tallinn, I wanted to
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Today marks the launch of “Expats Corner”, where we catch-up with foreigners who live or have lived in Estonia, to find out what they really think of the country. Les Wilson (52) is an English musician, drummer and teacher with a special fondness for Baltic and Nordic music in general and for Estonia in particular. He
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An Estonian-owned manufacturer of water sports equipment, Tahe Outdoors, already the market leader in canoes and kayaks in Scandinavia, has bought Egalis, the biggest producer of paddles in Europe. The purchase of the French factory makes the company one of the biggest manufacturers of water sports equipment in Europe. Kayaks were originally developed by the Eskimos
