From November 27 to December 12, Tartu Heino Eller Music School will celebrate its 90th jubilee with different concerts, performances and conference.
At the end of November, comedy Ai Simmai-ruudi Ralla directed by Taisto Noor, premiered at Exhibition House of Estonian National Museum and on December 2, concert-performance Work of Great Painter will receive its premiere at Genialists’ Club. On December 7, conference Music inside Us will take place at Tartu Heino Eller Music School Hall, papers will be read by art scientist, critic and poet Linnar Priimägi, music therapist Alice Pehk and psychologist Talis Bachmann. Several concerts will be held at the Assembly Hall of Tartu University and Tartu St. John’s Church where Eller Symphonietta, Eller choir and children’s choir, Tartu String Quartet, alumni, pedagogues and students will perform. Alo Põldmäe’s new piece Rondo of Eller School for string orchestra and solo harpsichord will be also premiered within the jubilee events. The celebration will reach its climax on December 12, when Gala Concert at Vanemuine Concert Hall will take place.
 Tartu Heino Eller Music School |
Tartu Heino Eller Music School was founded in 1919 and its first director was composer Juhan Aavik. Shortly afterwards, the school became the centre of the music education in South Estonia and the most important music school in entire Estonia. The school’s curricula consisted of three study levels: elementary, secondary and high, also preparation courses and continuing education centre. |
In 1927–1940, a lot of outstanding musicians and pedagogues worked at school, the most significant of them was composer Heino Eller who taught composition and music theory.
In 1940, the school was renamed Tartu Higher Music School and since then, the school operates as the state educational institution which offers music education at secondary school level. In 1971, the music school was named after Heino Eller. The youth department was opened again in 1981 and in 1997, Tartu Branch of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre was founded. Since 2001, Kadri Leivategija acts as the director of the Tartu Heino Eller Music School.
Agnes Toomla