On March 6 at 7 pm, the presentation concert of the new white piano by Steinway & Sons will take place at the Hall of Tartu University. Pianist Kalle Randalu will perform pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Ferenc Liszt and Lepo Sumera. The white grand piano is an unique model in Estonia and it is a gift to the main building of Tartu University which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.

Kalle Randalu is an internationally acclaimed pianist who graduated from the piano class of Bruno Lukk at Tallinn State Conservatory in 1980. In 1980-1983 he furthered his piano studies as a postgraduate student with Lev Vlassenko at Moscow Conservatory. Kalle Randalu is a laureate of several international piano competitions: he won the first prize at the local pianists’ contest of the former Soviet Union in Tallinn (1976) and the ARD Competition in Munich (1985), and was named a laureate at the Schumann Competition in Zwickau (1981) and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982). Since 1988 Randalu resides in Germany and works as a professor of the Hochschule für Musik of Karlsruhe.
Kalle Randalu has performed in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Spain, U.S. and elsewhere. As a soloist he has performed with many orchestras, such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Hamburg, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Eri Klas, Olari Elts, Jüri Alperten, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Maris Jansons, Maksim Shostakovich, Leif Segerstam, Juha Kangas, Jac van Steen et al.
He has densely collaborated with ensemble Villa Musica that unites the leading musicians of Germany, as well as with Mandelring Quartet and Trio di Clarone.

Laura Vaikma

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