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Spanish architects to design the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa

Silver Tambur / August 28, 2014

Spanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano won the international architectural contest to design the new Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia. The architects, representing the company, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, won the contest with an entry titled “Tabula”. According to Michael Pärt, the chairman of the jury and Arvo Pärt’s son, the winning design is […]

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Kristjan Randalu – a talent who returned

Life in Estonia / August 4, 2014

“The sea, clean air, bright colours, white summer nights, tomatoes and apples from my own garden,” Kristjan Randalu, the Estonian jazz pianist who was nominated for a Grammy award in 2006, lists the things he missed most about Estonia during his twenty years of living in Germany, England and the United States. This article is

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Canadian couple discovers Estonia’s “best kept secret”

Estonian World / July 31, 2014

“Estonia’s Best Kept Secret” is a road-trip story about a song, a country and a beautiful grand piano – and the winner of the third prize at EstDocs 2013, the annual Estonian documentary film festival and competition in Toronto. A few years ago, the Canadian couple, Mike Dell and Kimberly Bagayawa, became acquainted with Estonia – by virtue of Katre Viilvere,

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Viljandi hosts one of the largest folk music festivals in Europe – pictures

Silver Tambur / July 25, 2014

The Viljandi Folk Music Festival is an annual music festival in Estonia with a central focus on European folk music. It is traditionally held during the last weekend of July, when the otherwise quiet town of Viljandi is completely transformed as the small town centre is suddenly flooded with people. On average, over 200 performers play about 100 concerts and

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Children choir from Piedmont experiences a life-changing concert at the Estonian Song Celebration

Isabelle de Pommereau / July 20, 2014

Singing with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir has connected Tate Bissinger with numerous places in the world – from Slovakia to Germany. But on the weekend of 5-6 July 2014, singing connected her with something bigger and more powerful than anything she’d ever experienced. It happened in Estonia – with a population the size

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Indrek Laul – the global Estonian piano man

Silver Tambur / July 11, 2014

Pianist Indrek Laul has in twenty years built up an internationally reputable brand for the piano maker bearing the name of his homeland – Estonia. In 1994, the then-26-year old Estonian pianist Indrek Laul, having freshly graduated with a master’s degree while continuing on his doctorate at the prestigious New York Juilliard School of Music,

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Record number of people attended the Estonian Song and Dance Celebration – five video highlights

Estonian World / July 10, 2014

The 26th Estonian Song and 19th Dance Celebration drew the highest ever number of participants and audience from 4-6 July – over 153,000 people visited the performances. Most tickets were sold for the second concert of the Song Celebration, this year called “The Time to Touch”, on Sunday – 67,322 tickets. 33,025 singers and 10,082

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Enigmatic expat folksinger Reet Hendrikson remembered in Tallinn (video)

Andres Raudsepp / July 1, 2014

Like bees flying back to their hive, a large number of global Estonians will be returning to Estonia on the occasion of the 26th National Song and Dance Festival held in Tallinn from 4-6 July. One of the most global of Estonians, folksinger Reet Hendrikson, will be there in memory only, at a musical tribute

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Three new videos demonstrate the Estonian Song and Dance Celebration

Estonian World / June 30, 2014

Every five years, almost 100,000 Estonians gather to sing in a giant choir. Find out about the tradition and how you can be part of the magic. Along with the famous Song Festival, almost 10,000 Estonian dancers gather every five years to dance together. What is the magic of the Song and Dance Festival that

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“To Breathe As One” – a new film shows how singing keeps Estonia together (video)

Isabelle de Pommereau / June 27, 2014

Back in 2000, two internationally famous choirs – the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir in Oakland, California and the Estonian TV Girls’ Choir in Tallinn, Estonia – met at Heathrow Airport. The young people were heading to their respective homes after competing in singing events in various parts of the globe. They had time to kill, and they started to sing. Thus was born a choral friendship spanning continents. Aarne Saluveer, the

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