Tõnis Leemets

June 10, 1972
Member of the Estonian Composers’ Union since 2020

Tõnis Leemets has studied jazz guitar in Georg Ots Tallinn Music College and electroacoustic and classical composition in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (tutors Margo Kõlar and Helena Tulve).

He has been a member of the Weekend Guitar Trio since 1993. During the 1990ies his project Treee was one of the pioneers of electronic/acid jazz in Estonia. As a guitarist he has performed/premiered the works of many Estonian composers (together with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Estonian National male Choir), as well as his own arrangements of 20th century cello masterpieces for electric guitar.

He has written for fixed media, solo performers, ensembles and orchestras; created music for films, theatre and radio plays and been a presenter/DJ on several radio stations (mostly the Estonian Klassikaraadio). His music has been performed by Ensemble Una Corda, Ensemble Fractales, Estonian Police and Border Guard Orchestra and others.

In 2004, Tõnis Leemets together with Mart Soo and Robert Jürjendal were awarded the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for Weekend Guitar Trio’s concert activity at Estonia and abroad. "Võtkem Tartu rütmid" (Let's Take the Rhythms of Tartu) won third place in the competition of original pieces for the Tartu Town Hall carillon in 2017. Noodilood for wind orchestra won the prize in 2020 at the new composition concert organised by Estonian Chamber of Wind Orchestra, EAMT and Police and Border Guard Orchestra. In the same year, Leemets won the audience call competition of the EAMT Concert and Theater Hall.

Tõnis Leemets’s homepage: https://www.leemets.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/treee

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