At the final concert of Nargen Festival, Timo Steiner’s cantata Cocks and Hens or The Monument for the Egg-laying Cock will be premiered. New piece will be performed by Annely Peebo (mezzo soprano), Rainer Vilu (baritone), girls’ choir Ellerhein, Nargen Opera Choir, Estonian National Male Choir and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under the conducting of Tõnu Kaljuste. In addition, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 82 „The Bear” and Gottfried von Einem’s Tier-Requiem will be performed. Concerts will take place in Tallinn Zoological Garden on August 30 at 7 pm and August 31 at 3 pm.
Timo Steiner graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 1999 as a composition student of Prof. Jaan Rääts. From 1999 to 2001 he studied in the Academy’s master’s degree program under Raimo Kangro. Steiner improved his skills at the Moscow Conservatoire under Prof. Roman Ledenev. From 1996, Steiner has taught composition and music theory subjects at the Tallinn Music High School, and since autumn 2005, serves as TMHS's director. From 2003, he is an artistic director of Estonian Music Days festival. He’s music has been performed in many countries in Europe, Russia and USA. In 2002, Timo Steiner won the Heino Eller prize and in 2006 received the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for artistic direction of the Estonian Music Days Festival and Estonian music propaganda. Clear images, strong rhythm pulse, and juxtaposition of differrent styles are characteristic to composer’s music.
Mariliis Valkonen