Calendar of music events
Art sounds . Nordic ballads
The Niguliste Museum will start a new concert series, “Art Sounds”, on 4 April 2025. Curated in collaboration with the Estonian saxophonist and composer Villu Veski, the music events will feature art and music, including musicians and curators known both in Estonia and abroad. The series is based on the treasures of medieval art and the exhibition programme of the Niguliste Museum. At these events, the worlds created by the exhibitions will intertwine with diverse soundscapes. The concerts will be preceded by short tours led by art historians.
The opening concert of the “Art Sounds” series is “Nordic Ballads”, which is also the closing chord of the exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest. Ballads inspired by ancient Nordic myths and sagas will be performed by Katrina Petersen, a singer and composer with Faroese and Danish roots, who has lived, studied and worked in almost all of the Scandinavian countries. The ballads will be performed in Swedish, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. Katrina will be accompanied by the Danish guitarist Andreas Christiansen Ugorskij and Estonian musicians who have collaborated closely with renowned Nordic artists: the saxophonist and composer Villu Veski and the composer and keyboardist Raun Juurikas. The concert will be preceded by a short tour of the exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest by the art historian Merike Kurisoo.
The exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest, organised in collaboration with the National Historical Museums of Sweden and the Royal Armoury of Sweden, will be open until 6 April. The exhibition invites you to discover the meaning of the fairy-tale unicorn throughout history and to encounter unicorns in objects and works of art from the 16th to 21st centuries. Works from Estonian collections present to us the mysterious presence of the unicorn here.
The concert invites the audience to the Nordic fairy-tale lands. The listener, while enjoying the beauty of the light from the historical chandeliers of Niguliste, will be transported to the wonderland of unicorns by a modern lighting solution installed just for that evening. Niguliste will become a magical forest of dreams and nightmares, where ancient Nordic songs full of power will make art resonate through mystical rays of light.
Organizer: Niguliste museum in cooperation with KV Stuudio
Tickets: Piletilevi
More information: https://nigulistemuuseum.ekm.ee
The opening concert of the “Art Sounds” series is “Nordic Ballads”, which is also the closing chord of the exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest. Ballads inspired by ancient Nordic myths and sagas will be performed by Katrina Petersen, a singer and composer with Faroese and Danish roots, who has lived, studied and worked in almost all of the Scandinavian countries. The ballads will be performed in Swedish, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic. Katrina will be accompanied by the Danish guitarist Andreas Christiansen Ugorskij and Estonian musicians who have collaborated closely with renowned Nordic artists: the saxophonist and composer Villu Veski and the composer and keyboardist Raun Juurikas. The concert will be preceded by a short tour of the exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest by the art historian Merike Kurisoo.
The exhibition Unicorn in the Magical Forest, organised in collaboration with the National Historical Museums of Sweden and the Royal Armoury of Sweden, will be open until 6 April. The exhibition invites you to discover the meaning of the fairy-tale unicorn throughout history and to encounter unicorns in objects and works of art from the 16th to 21st centuries. Works from Estonian collections present to us the mysterious presence of the unicorn here.
The concert invites the audience to the Nordic fairy-tale lands. The listener, while enjoying the beauty of the light from the historical chandeliers of Niguliste, will be transported to the wonderland of unicorns by a modern lighting solution installed just for that evening. Niguliste will become a magical forest of dreams and nightmares, where ancient Nordic songs full of power will make art resonate through mystical rays of light.
Organizer: Niguliste museum in cooperation with KV Stuudio
Tickets: Piletilevi
More information: https://nigulistemuuseum.ekm.ee
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