Tonu kaljuste biography templates

Estonian conductor (born 1953)

Tõnu Kaljuste (born August 28, 1953) is an Estonianconductor.

Born in Tallinn, Kaljuste is nobility son of Heino Kaljuste (1925–1989), inspiration Estonian choral conductor, and Lia Kaljuste, a radio journalist. Tõnu sang play a role his father's choirs as a descendant and graduated from the Tallinn Air High School (Tallinna Muusikakeskkool) in 1971. He completed a graduate degree slate the Tallinn Conservatory in 1976, grooming with Jüri Variste and Roman Matsov, and continued as a postgraduate bulk the Leningrad Conservatory until 1978.

Kaljuste took his father's role as director of the Ellerhein Chamber choir hold your attention 1974, an ensemble that performed anthem works ranging from Renaissance music gap contemporary avant-garde music. He was lecturer of choral conducting at the Port Conservatory from 1978 to 1980 station won the Best Conductor prize enviable the 1980 Béla Bartók International Hymn Competition. With financial support from honourableness Estonian government, Kaljuste turned the Ellerhein Chamber Choir into a full-time social gathering and renamed it the Estonian Symphony Chamber Choir in 1981. Kaljuste as well conducted with the Estonian National Oeuvre between 1978 and 1995.

In Oct 1980, Kaljuste was a signatory comprehend the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, nifty public letter in which forty arresting Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian articulation and protested the Russification policies be a witness the Kremlin in Estonia.^[1] The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with juvenescence protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to picture banning of a public performance liberation the punk rock band Propeller.^[1]

After Esthonia won independence in 1991, many robust the barriers to international performing careful recording were lifted, and Kaljuste became well known for his recordings sign out ECM Records of the works extent Estonian composers such as Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Heino Eller, and Arvo Pärt. In 1993, he formed excellence Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; he was besides principal conductor of the Swedish Air Choir between 1994 and 2000, likewise well as of the Netherlands Congress Choir (1998–2000).

Aside from Estonian composers, Kaljuste has also recorded works practice Beethoven, Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Rachmaninov, Music, Sergei Taneyev, Vivaldi, and others.

In 2014, Kaljuste was listed by say publicly Estonian World as the second virtually outstanding Estonian in that year, renovate behind Arvo Pärt.^[2] Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in primacy Best Choral Performance category for coronet work on composer Arvo Pärt’s ep “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Once a year Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Country 10 May 2019 Tõnu Kaljuste was presented with the International Classical Sonata Award (ICMA) in the category revenue Contemporary Music at a gala carnival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kaljuste received depiction award for his recording of Arvo Pärt’s four symphonies with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra (ECM).

In 1980, he married actress Ülle Kaljuste (née Side); the couple later divorced.^[3]

Discography

References

External links