The 11th Suure-Jaani Music Festival will take place from June15 to 23, organised by Suure-Jaani Parish Government and The State Concert Institute Eesti Kontsert. The festival is dedicated to three Estonian composers Artur Kapp, Eugen Kapp and Villem Kapp.
The programme of The 11th Suure-Jaani Music Festival offers several concerts in different places in Suure-Jaani and its neighbourhood. Besides Estonian interprets also guests from France, Poland and Iran will perform. The programme of festival also includes the Mart Saar Singers’ Contest and Julius Vaks Trumpet Players’ Contest, matinée concerts in memoriam of Kapp family (presenters: Ain Erik, Ivalo Randalu, Anne Erm, and Eino Tamberg), and conference. Photo exhibition „The Suure-Jaani Music Festival” by Jaanus Siim will be opened.
The opening concert of the festival will take place in the new sport hall of Suure-Jaani Gymnasium on June 17, where works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Vivaldi will be performed by Pärnu City Orchestra, mixed choirs Noorus and Cantus, Aile Asszonyi (soprano), Teele Jõks (mezzo soprano), and Marina Chiche (violin, France) under Jüri Alperten guidance.
In Lõhavere town hill on June 18, opera Lembitu by Villem Kapp will be performed by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Male Choir, girl’s choir Ellerhein and soloists (conductor Paul Mägi).
The White Stork Synagogue Choir in Wrocław (Poland) will sing Jewish music in Suure-Jaani Orthodox Church on June 21.
Arsis Handbell Ensemble and swamp-orchestra under Aivar Mäe guidance will perform in Hüpassaare on June 23. The Students of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Opera Studio, Tobias String Quartet and Tartu String Quartet, Mari-Liis Uibo (violin) and Mehrdokht Manavi (piano, Iran/Austria), Ka Bo Chan (countertenor), Jüri Leiten (trumpet) and Andres Uibo (organ), Wind Orchestra of All-Estonian Youth Orchestra, Tõnis Mägi and ensemble Ultima Thule with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra will also perform at the festival.
Suure-Jaani Music Festival was established in 1998. The artistic director of the festival is Andres Uibo, patrons of the Festival are President Arnold Rüütel and the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Andres Põder.
Agnes Toomla