Pianist Peep Lassmann celebrates his 60th birthday with a dashing solo recital, first half of it consists of Estonian music. Ballad by Timo Steiner, Variations on Theme „Ma tänan sind” (I Thank You) by Tõnu Kõrvits and Cadenza by Toivo Tulev will be premiered. Both Toivo Tulev’s and Timo Steiner’s new pieces are dedicated to Peep Lassmann, Variations by Tõnu Kõrvits are based on sacred folk hymns from Pärnu-Jaagupi. Additionally the concert program includes Pardon, Fryderyk! by Lepo Sumera, also Concert Paraphrase of Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, Snowstorm from the cycle Trancendental Etudes and Spanish Rhapsody by Ferenc Liszt. The concerts will take place on Tuesday, March 18th in the hall of the University of Tartu, and on Wednesday, March 19th in Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn. The Concerts will begin at 7 PM.
Peep Lassmann was born on March 19th 1948 in Tartu. He has graduated Heljo Sepp’s piano class in Tallinn Music High School in 1966 and Tallinn Conservatoire in 1971, also studied in Moscow Conservatoire with Emil Gilels in 1971 to 1973. Since then Peep Lassmann has been a valued concert pianist and a chamber musician who has performed piano music by approximately 30 Estonian composers, also been distinguished as a superb Massiaen interpret. Lassmann is a long-time piano lecturer in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, since 1992 also professor and rector. He is a socially active leader figure in Estonian musical life: since 1991 board chairman of the Estonian Association of Piano Teachers, since 1995 president of the Estonian Music Council, in 1998 one of the founders of Estonian Association of Professional Musicians and its first chairman (1998-2002), from 2000 to 2006 he was a board member of European Music School Union, since 2002 the vice president of the Association of Baltic Academies of Music, a member of the Academic Council of the President of Estonian Republic from 2002 to 2006 and since 1998 a member of the Board of the Estonian National Opera. In 2003, Estonian Ornitological Society elected a passionate bird observer Peep Lassmann the chairman of its council.
Maria Mölder