On June 27, cellist Peeter Paemurru celebrates his 60th birthday.
He has achieved recognition as soloist, valued chamber musician and pedagogue. He has given concerts in Estonia and abroad, participated in many festivals, organised performances and concert trips of orchestras. He has also been active as a conductor.
Peeter Paemurru was born in 1948 in Tallinn. He studied double bass at the Tallinn Music High School and continued in Tallinn State Conservatoire in 1966 as the double bass student of Vladimir Luht. At the same time he also took cello lessons from Ivo Juul. From 1969 to 1973 Peeter Paemurru studied cello with Professor Sergei Shirinsky in Moscow Conservatoire where he also improved his skills at the postgraduate level with Professor Valentin Feigini from 1975 to 1977. He has worked as a cello concert master of the Theatre Estonia and as the second concert master of the Mexico City Symphony Orchestra. Peeter Paemurru has been active as a cello pedagogue at the Conservatory in Kairo, at present he is Professor and Head of Strings Department in Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Agnes Toomla