Janne Fridolin
July, 23.1976, JõgevaChoral conductor and music teacher Janne Fridolin has graduated from the Department of Music of the Tallinn Pedagogical Seminary with Rein Tali in 1997. She continued at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT), receiving her Bachelor’s degree in 2003 in music education with Ene Kangron and Master’s degree cum laude in 2009 in choral conducting with Prof Ants Üleoja. In 2017, she completed her doctoral studies at the EAMT under the supervision of Tõnu Kaljuste and Anne Türnpu.
Janne Fridolin has been the assistant conductor of the Mixed Choir Noorus (1998–2000) and the Boys’ Choir Revalia (2002–2010). Since 2006, she is the chief conductor of the Youth Mixed Choir Vox Populi. Since 2011, Janne Fridolin works at the Tallinn Music High School, where she conducts chamber choir and boys’ choir and teaches choral conducting and score reading. Additionally, she is a music teacher and children’s choir leader at the Tallinn Rahumäe Elementary School.
She has been the general conductor at several singing days and song festivals, including the 12th Youth Song Celebration (2017) and the 30th Estonian Male Choirs Association singing day (2018). In 2014, she was the artistic director of the International Student Song and Dance Festival Gaudeamus. She is the mentor of the Estonian Choral Association’s mentoring program.
Since 2008, Janne Fridolin has been interested in concert-performances, which she has partly analyzed in her doctoral theses (“Regarding The Motivation of an Amateur Choir and the Role of a Conductor in its Development on the Example of the Productions by the Youth Choir Vox Populi”, 2017). She has been the music director and conductor of several concert-performances, based on choral music by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis: “In the Parisian City of London” in composer’s birthplace near Kuusalu (2010, 2011), “Ingrian Evenings” (2012), “Meditations with Tormis” for the 85th anniversary of Tormis (2015), “Izhorian Epic” (in cooperation with Mixed Choir Voces Tallinn, 2015) and “Waking the Birds” for the 90th anniversary of the birth of Tormis in his birthplace (2020). She has also been the musical director and conductor of summer-performance in Anija Manor (2014, 2014) and the musical “Savisaar” of the Theatre NO99.
Janne Fridolin was awarded a scholarship by the Heino Kaljuste Foundation (2002) and a scholarship by Uno Järvela (2013). She has received the best conductor prize at the Freamunde International Choir Competition in Portugal (2012) and the best conductor special award at the Grand Prix round at the Rimini International Choral Competition in Italy (2017). In 2020, she was awarded the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Folk Culture of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
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