Estonian music and musicians will be presented at the First Finno-Ugric Cultural Days taking place from February 21 to March 15 in Vienna, Austria. On March 1, Estonian clarinet player Meelis Vind will have a joint performance together with jazz musicians from Finland, Austria and Hungary in Vienna’s most famous jazz club "Porgy and Bess". On March 3, a concert of the New Tallinn Trio is going to take place at the Glass Hall of Musikverein, the programme including Fata Morgana (2002) by Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mozart-Adagio (1992) by Arvo Pärt and Good Night (1998) by Tõnu Kõrvits.
At the First Finno-Ugric Cultural Days in Vienna, Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian music and literature hold a central place. At the concert in jazz club "Porgy and Bess", Hungarian Kálmán Oláh (piano), Austrian Karl Sayer (double bass) and Finn Markus Ketola (percussion) will perform together with Estonian clarinet player Meelis Vind. Estonian New Tallinn Trio, made up of Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann (piano), Harry Traksmann (volin) and Kaido Kelder (cello), will have a concert together with Sinfonia Lahti Chamber Ensemble and Hungarian Akademie Streicquartett.
The cultural days were opened on February 21 in Hungarian cultural institute "Collegium Hungaricum", where the exhibition "Finnish landscape photography" by residing in Vienna Hungarian physician and photographer József Timár was displayed. On 2 March, a literature night is scheduled at the Radio-Café of Radio Kulturhaus with Reet Kudu (Estonia), Krisztina Tóth (Hungary) and Monika Fagerholm (Finland) participating and a discussion about Finno-Ugric languages in the Indo-European language space held.
First Finno-Ugric Cultural Days in Vienna have been organised in co-operation of the Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Vienna with the Embassy of the Republic of Finland in Vienna and Hungarian cultural institute "Collegium Hungaricum".