Estonian Public Broadcasting has released Timo Steiner’s first author-CD The Clouds Will Disturb that comprises composer’s works from 1999 to 2007, most of them as a premiere recordings.
CD presents Dance Following a Bright-lit Day for saxophone and percussion, Yet Clouds Disturb, I Can’t See Clearly… for solo violin and chamber orchestra, Star People for piano duo, flute concerto Concerto for Dancing Flute, It’s Nice to Listen to You for viola and piano, A Measure of Happiness for oboe, Im memoriam for large ensemble, “Lullaby” for children’s choir and chamber orchestra and Op! Variations for piano.
Music is performed by Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Cyberstudio, Ensemble Voces Musicales, Tallinn Music High School Children’s Choir, conductors Risto Joost, Tõnu Kaljuste and Lauri Sirp, Ivo Lille (saxophone), Vambola Krigul (percussion), Triin Ruubel (violin), Nata-Ly Sakkos and Toivo Peäske (pianos), Riivo Kallasmaa (oboe), Laur Eensalu (viola), Reet Ruubel (piano), Jaan Ots (piano) and Monika Mattiesen (flute).
Timo Steiner graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 1999 as a composition student of Prof. Jaan Rääts. From 1999 to 2001 he studied in the Academy’s master’s degree program under Raimo Kangro. Steiner improved his skills at the Moscow Conservatoire under Prof. Roman Ledenev. From 1996, Steiner has taught composition and music theory subjects at the Tallinn Music High School, and since autumn 2005, serves as TMHS's director. From 2003, he is an artistic director of Estonian Music Days festival. He’s music has been performed in many countries in Europe, Russia and USA. In 2002, Timo Steiner won the Heino Eller prize and in 2006 received the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for artistic direction of the Estonian Music Days Festival and Estonian music propaganda.
Mariliis Valkonen