From December 1 to 31, the 4th Tallinn Winter Festival, organized by Pille Lill Music Fund, will take place. “Open your eyes, open your heart” is the motto of the festival and a benefit campaign is organized for the special needs in Day Care Centre Käo. Festival consists of five concerts. Also Pille Lill Music Fund’s concert series Music of the Soul and Master School will continue in December.
On December 1 at 7 pm, The 4th Tallinn Winter Festival starts with Opera Gala, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Estonian tenor Vello Jürna at Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn. Vello Jürna’s former colleagues and friends (Margarita Voites, Mati Palm, Voldemar Kuslap, Kaie Kõrb, Viesturs Jansons, Margit Saulep, Pille Lill, Nadja Kurem, Heli Veskus, Valentina Kremen, Maire Haava, Mart Madiste, Oliver Kuusik, Urmas Põldmaa, Aare Saal, and Taimo Toomast) and the winners of the Vello Jürna Vocalists Competition will perform at the concert.
Music of the Soul starts on December 4 at 6 pm in Narva Alexander Church, where Geraldine Casanova (soprano), Oliver Kuusik (tenor) and Eda Peäske (harp) will perform vocal music by Georg Friedrich Händel, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms.
Master School starts on December 5 at 5 pm in Russian Culture Centre in Tallinn within the 4th Tallinn Winter Festival. The program consists of music by Enrique Granados and Modest Mussorgsky and will be performed by soprano Angelika Klas-Fagerlund and pianist Piia Paemurru.
Music of the Soul continues on December 15 at 3 pm in St Michael’s Lutheran Church in Keila, where Marike Kruup (violin) and Linda-Anette Suss (violin) will perform with Chamber Orchestra of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. The program consists of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Edvard Grieg.
The 4th Tallinn Winter Festival continues on December 13 at 2 pm in Tallinn Synagogue with the concert of saxophone quartet SaxEst. They will perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Darius Milhaud and Jacques Offenbach.
The next concert of Music of the Soul series will be held on December 15 at 6 pm in Swedish St. Michael’s Church in Tallinn within the 4th Tallinn Winter Festival. The program consists of string music by Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and will be performed by Ida Teppo (violin), Karolina Normak (violin), Liis-Helena Väljamäe (violin), Mary-Ann Eessaar (violin), Laur Eensalu (viola), Eva-Maria Sumera (viola), Silvia Ilves (cello), Theodor-Peeter Sink (cello) and Henry-David Varema (cello).
On December 26 at 7 pm, the Music of the Soul concert will be held in Häädemeeste Culture House, where Cello Quartet C-Jam (Pärt Tarvas, Levi-Danel Mägila, Margus Uus and Andreas Lend) will perform music by Richard Wagner and David Popper.
Music of the Soul continues on December 27 at 6 pm in Haapsalu Dome Church, where Pille Lill (soprano), Mati Kõrts (tenor) and Tiia Tenno (organ) will perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The 4th Tallinn Winter Festival will reach its climax on December 30 at 7 pm, when Gala concert at the Russian Culture Centre, Tallinn will take place. Maria Veretenina, Pille Lill, Mati Palm, Virgo Veldi Saxophone Quartet SaxEst, Susanna Aleksandra Veldi, ballet dancer Kaie Kõrb’s dance studio and Children’s Choir Raduga (piano accompaniments by Piia Paemurru, Ingrid Kajak and Veronika Horetskaja) will perform at the concert.
Aveli Kadastik