On March 4 at 6 pm, the Tallinn Music High School Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of its chief conductor Risto Joost will perform at Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn. The program consists of Overture to the opera Ruslan and Ludmilla by Mikhail Glinka, Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven and Piano Concerto No. 2 by Franz Liszt, solo part by the 8th class student Ruslan Strogiy.
Ruslan Strogiy studies in the piano class of Maigi Pakri. He has gained recognition at several competitions: II prize (2004) and I prize (2006) at the International Competition of Young Pianists from the Baltic Sea Countries Dedicated to the Work of Fryderyk Chopin in Narva, diploma (2005) and II prize (2009) at the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar, II prize and special prize for the best performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s French Suite at the VII Estonian Pianists Competition.
Tallinn Music High School Symphony Orchestra is founded in 1987 and comprises of students in classes 9–12. The orchestra prepares three different programs per every season. In 2008, the orchestra was awarded the first prize in the category of string orchestras at the international competition Youth & Music in Vienna for youth orchestras and was recognized as the best performer of the entire competition. Since 2006, Risto Joost, an alumnus of the Tallinn Music High School, works as the chief conductor of the orchestra.
Agnes Toomla