Lauri Sirp

b. 29.10.1969, Tallinn

Lauri Sirp graduated from Tallinn Music High School on choir conducting under the guidance of Reet Ratassepp and from Tallinn State Conservatory at 1993 with Kuno Areng. In 1997 Lauri Sirp continued studies at Estonian Music Academy on orchestral conducting graduating in 2002 under the guidance of Jüri Alperten. Lauri Sirp has participated at mastercourses of Neeme Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jorma Panula, Peter Gülke and Eri Klas and has also been an assistant of Carlo Felice Cillario while prepearing his concerts and operas in Tartu.

Lauri Sirp has been conductor at Theatre Vanemuine since 1993 and conducted most of performances and symphony concerts of the orchestra. He is also principal conductor at Tartu University Symphony Orchestra since 2009. In addition he has cooperated with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra and Mikkel City Orchestra. Since 2003 Lauri Sirp has also conducted at Estonian National Opera including Sergei Prokofiev´s ballet Romeo and Juliet, Tõnu Raadik´s and Ago-Endrik Kerge´s musical Vargamäe tõde ja õigus (Vargamäe´s truth and justice), Carl Maria von Weber´s Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss´ operetta Viennese Blood and Tõnis Kaumann´s opera Mina – Napoleon! (Me – Napoleon!) and works dedicated to him including Kerri Kotta´s Philharmony and Tõnu Kõrvits´ Müüt (Myth). He has conducted selection choirs at XXV Song Celebration "ÜhesHingamine" ("To Breathe as One") and belongs to the artistic management of Tartu Song Celebration "Enne ja nüüd" ("Before and after").

Since 1996 Lauri Sirp belongs to Estonian Theatre Union. In 2004 Sirp obtained Richard Wagner´s Scholarship and in 2007 Estonian Theatre Annual Award for bringing on stage operas Acis and Galatea by George Frideric Handel and La Cambiale di Matrimonio by Gioacchino Rossini. He has also given Estonian Cultural Endowment Music Prize for performance of Benjamin Britten´s opera The Turn of the Screw at Birgitta festival in 2008.

Performances in Theatre Vanemuine:
Gian Carlo Menotti The Telephone, Jules Massenet Don Quichotte and Manon, Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff and Rigoletto, Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel, Georg Friedrich Handeli Xerxes and Acis and Galatea, Gioachino Rossini La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Maurice Ravel The Spanish Hour and Boléro, Albert Lortzing Der Wildschütz, ballet by Frederic Chopin´s music Chopiniana, balet by Ludwig Minkus´ music Quiteria´s Wedding, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy A Midsummer Night's Dream Adolphe Adam Giselle, Jacques Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann and Orpheus in the Underworld , Pál Ábrahám Ball at the Savoy , Olav Ehala Nukitsamees, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, Henry Purcell The Fairy-Queen, recital Concert Evening With Strauss, ballet Beauty and the Beast by Aleksander Glazunov´s, Joaquin Turinas and Malcolm Arnold´s music.

In addition Lauri Sirp has conducted:
Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci, Giuseppe Verdi Traviata, A Masked Ball and The Troubadour, Henry Puccini La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, Gioachino Rossini The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio and Cosi fan tutte, Pyotr Tchaikovsky Jevgeni Onegin and The Sleeping Beauty, Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella Leonard Bernstein West Side Story, Edward Grieg Peer Gynt, Gaetano Donizetti Maria Stuarda, Jules Massenet Werther, Ferenc Lehár The Merry Widow.

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