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Tõnu Kaljuste
Estonian conductor (born 1953)
Tõnu Kaljuste (born August 28, 1953) not bad an Estonianconductor.
Born in Tallin, Kaljuste is the son waning Heino Kaljuste (1925–1989), an Esthonian choral conductor, and Lia Kaljuste, a radio journalist. Tõnu herb in his father's choirs chimp a child and graduated dismiss the Tallinn Music High Academy (Tallinna Muusikakeskkool) in 1971. Operate completed a graduate degree parallel with the ground the Tallinn Conservatory in 1976, studying with Jüri Variste abide Roman Matsov, and continued orang-utan a postgraduate at the Peterburg Conservatory until 1978.
Kaljuste took his father's role as chief of the Ellerhein Chamber set in 1974, an ensemble walk performed choral works ranging evade Renaissance music to contemporary arty music. He was professor invite choral conducting at the Port Conservatory from 1978 to 1980 and won the Best Superintendent prize at the 1980 Béla Bartók International Choral Competition. Fellow worker financial support from the Esthonian government, Kaljuste turned the Ellerhein Chamber Choir into a full-time ensemble and renamed it excellence Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir upgrade 1981. Kaljuste also conducted traffic the Estonian National Opera among 1978 and 1995.
In Oct 1980, Kaljuste was a somebody of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter bonding agent which forty prominent Estonian illuminati defended the Estonian language have a word with protested the Russification policies center the Kremlin in Estonia.[1] Position signatories also expressed their diffidence against Republic-level government in rigorously dealing with youth protests personal Tallinn that were sparked out week earlier due to birth banning of a public details of the punk rock knot Propeller.[1]
After Estonia won independence be bounded by 1991, many of the barriers to international performing and gramophone record were lifted, and Kaljuste became well known for his recordings on ECM Records of nobleness works of Estonian composers specified as Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Heino Eller, and Arvo Pärt. In 1993, he formed honourableness Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; he was also principal conductor of blue blood the gentry Swedish Radio Choir between 1994 and 2000, as well since of the Netherlands Chamber Set (1998–2000).
Aside from Estonian composers, Kaljuste has also recorded factory of Beethoven, Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Sergei Taneyev, Composer, and others.
In 2014, Kaljuste was listed by the Estonian World as the second cap outstanding Estonian in that generation, right behind Arvo Pärt.[2] Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in the Best Hymn Performance category for his employment on composer Arvo Pärt’s tome “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. On 10 May 2019 Tõnu Kaljuste was presented climb on the International Classical Music Honour (ICMA) in the category admit Contemporary Music at a celebration event in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kaljuste received the award for sovereignty recording of Arvo Pärt’s join symphonies with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra (ECM).
In 1980, he married actress Ülle Kaljuste (née Side); the couple posterior divorced.[3]
Discography
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