On the eve of conducting the opening concerts of the new Philharmonie de Paris, Maestro Paavo Järvi found time to speak to Estonian World about the new hall in Paris, as well as Estonia, Russia, and music. As Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, one of the main resident ensembles, renowned Estonian conductor Paavo […]
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Estonia is set to celebrate its twenty–fifth international arts and culture festival in Melbourne, Australia, 28-31 December. Eesti Päevad – the Estonian Days – is a bi-annual festival marked by the Estonian Australians who gather to share traditional craft skills, celebrate artistic endeavours, as well as enjoy a mix of sports and food events. The
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Last week, the Estonian Guild, the Estonian Embassy in London, and the Tehnopol Startup Incubator, organised an event in the heart of London where Estonian startups could introduce their ideas to already established companies in the UK and get more insight about the UK market, where to find investment and contacts, and how to get
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New York’s Times Square gave a grand welcome to an Estonian business delegation, led by Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, in the morning of 12 December 2014. The delegation also visited NASDAQ, the largest stock exchange in the United States. I Credit: Siiri Lind and Stenbock House.
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Every time I ask one of my non-Estonian friends to come with me to EstDocs, Toronto’s Estonian documentary film festival, they look at me blankly. “Really,” they say, almost without fail. “An Estonian documentary film festival.” It’s like I have asked them to have lunch with me on the planet Zoltan, to which we will
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Estonian-American writer Charles (Kalev) Ehin tells a moving story in his book of the reconciliation of an Estonian family torn apart by war. In September 1944, approximately 75,000 Estonians fled their beloved homeland. Memories still fresh from the brief Soviet occupation in 1940-41, and the Red Army advancing towards Tallinn, they hoped to avoid what
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New York-based Diina Tamm writes about her experience of trying to break it in the Big Apple as a modern dancer, and the differences between the two dance scenes – her birth country and the US. I I’ve been working as a professional dancer for about ten years. Originally from Tallinn, I decided to move
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He plans to take over the planet. And not just planet Earth but everything that surrounds it too. Not by brutal force but by offering a platform for organising and making sense of planetary sensor data. “I have a feeling we’ve only just started,” says Rainer Sternfeld (31), CEO and co-founder of Planet OS. In
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The Estonian-founded, London-based money transfer startup, TransferWise, held a parade on 30 October in the City of London to draw attention to greater transparency in foreign exchange fees. The publicity stunt saw over a hundred “skeletons” marching through the City to what the company calls “mark the end of hidden bank charges”. According to the
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Pianist Kristjan Randalu and the Absolute Ensemble, led by conductor Kristjan Järvi, are currently on a tour in South Korea on what is among the first tours in Korea from any Estonian artist. On the tour called “Absolute Korea”, Randalu and the ensemble are scheduled to perform five concerts through 26 October. The world-renowned violinist,
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