Estonian culture in the world.
Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi has been voted by the public as “Artist of the Year”, a title given at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards. The award, presented by the Gramophone classical music magazine since 1977, was announced at the Gramophone annual awards ceremony on 17 September in London. “One of the most sought-after conductors of today, and […]
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Estonia has selected Elmo Nüganen’s war movie, “1944”, as the country’s submission for the foreign language Academy Award. Nüganen’s film depicts the events of the war in 1944 as Estonia faced advances from both the Red Army and the German Army. The story is shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who – faced with
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It doesn’t happen every day that a book by an Estonian author is published in English. It is even more rare that the writer has originally written it in English, as opposed to a translation. Sten Hankewitz, a life-long journalist and coincidentally also Estonian World’s stalwart deputy editor, who has lived in the UK and
“Catch the Harpy” – Berlin and Cold War inspire an Estonian author Read More »
A new documentary, produced by Accentus Music and directed by German film director Günter Atteln, follows composer Arvo Pärt over a one-year period in his native Estonia, as well as to Japan, Germany, Italy and Vatican. “He is the most-performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to
“The Lost Paradise” – a new film about Arvo Pärt to be released in September Read More »
The Estonian artist Andres Sütevaka opens his personal exhibition, “De la pintura la ceramica”, at the ACC Gallery of the Potters Association of Catalonia in Barcelona. Sütevaka has been living in Spain since January 2014, creating sculptures and ceramics. He is a third-year sculpture student at the Tartu Art College, which also gave him the
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Veljo Tormis, regarded as one of the greatest living choral music writers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia, celebrates his 85th birthday on 7 August. Tormis‘s contribution to the Estonian choral tradition and to choral music worldwide is invaluable. One can say he has created a choral tradition of his
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Is it actually possible to talk about Estonian music? Especially the whole of Estonian music, without distinguishing between high and low, classical and lighter styles, individual aspirations in different directions that have started to bear fruit and gather recognition in the world? The Estonian Institute has made an attempt in a new booklet, “The World
Brief history of the Estonian music scene Read More »
In the early twentieth century Estonian artist Ants Laikmaa created beautiful portraits of Ethiopians and North Africans, while still developing a distinct Estonian art. The range of his portraiture reveals the tolerance and acceptance in Estonia over a century ago. Estonia has always been multicultural, yet recent debates about EU migration quotas tend to suggest otherwise.
An Ethiopian in Tallinn, circa 1903 Read More »
In mid-June, the president of the Republic of Austria, Heinz Fischer, ceremonially presented the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Austria’s highest decoration for remarkable services in this field of activity, to the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. The decoration has been awarded since 1955, and the fact that the number of its recipients is strictly
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The Estonian veteran film director, Riho Unt, won the jury award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (AIAFF) for his animation, “The Master”. The award is considered the second most important at the festival and was handed over to Unt by Jeff Small, the president of DreamWorks Studios. In a slight twist, the jury
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