Dear international applicants! Today, 3 June, is the last day to complete your application with supporting documentation.
For detailed audition requirements and assessment criteria click on the departments and majors.
Applicants to whom traveling restrictions still apply must include a video recording. Applicants with no traveling restrictions are expected to participate in the live entrance auditions that will take place from 28th of June to 1st of July at EAMT.
For further questions please address vastuvott@eamt.ee
Kirke Karja, doctoral student in jazz music at the EAMT is the first woman to win the Gaslini Award as the best jazz talent of the future.
Kirke Karja is an exceptional jazz musician and composer very well known despite her very young age, known for having played with many important musicians and also as president of the Estonian Jazz Association. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a degree in classical piano and a master’s degree in jazz. She also studied freelance composition and improvisation and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, working as a freelance musician. In 2014 she received the Young Jazz Talent Award. In 2019 she was selected to participate in the Criss Cross European tour.
Kirke will perform on the evening of 29 July 2021 in Piazza La Quara with Federico Calcagno.
GIOVANNI ALBINI will defend his doctoral thesis on June 14 at 12.00 in room A-402 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Music):
Transfiguring Conventional Music Elements A Mathematically Informed Approach to Composition
Supervisor: Professor Kerri Kotta, PhD (EAMT)
Opponent: Hannu Pohjannoro, DMus (Tampere)
The doctoral thesis is available HERE and in print in the EAMT library
“… The general questions that had been the starting point of my artistic research are the following. How can mathematics serve to shape musical structures that grant a neat focus on traditional music elements and yet put them in a different perspective? And which of the several ways I could find are closer to my individual character, aesthetics and aims?
To answer these broad questions I took into analysis from a musicological standpoint the process of my former composition practice, recognizing some mathematically informed traits that I could thenreduce and formalize in three concepts of a specific structured compositional strategy of combinatorial nature, that I named 1) completeness, 2) exhaustiveness and 3) equality in repetition.
These three concepts naturally emerged in my own composition practice. Thereby, such study let me narrow down the aforesaid questions to a more specific one: the very research question of this text. How and why the three concepts of completeness, exhaustiveness and equality in repetition can serve to transfigure conventional musical elements offering useful tools for composers?” writes Giovanni Albini in the abstract of his doctoral thesis.
On May 12, 2021, the Lied-duo competition of the Department of Classical Music Performance took place in the Chamber Hall of the EAMT, where 16 ensembles participated.
The jury, Mihkel Poll, Aule Urb and Kristi Kapten, judged the following duos worthy of the award:
I prize Ursula Roomere / Sven-Sander Šestakov (supervisor Martti Raide); cash prize 350 euros
II prize Milda Drejeryté / Medeiné Mickevičiuté (supervisor Prof. Helin Kapten) and Triin-Eliis Süld / Eva Jelenskaja-Tamm (supervisor Prof. Helin Kapten); a cash prize of 250 euros for each duo
III prize Lekso Kapanadze / Karl Johan Nutt (supervisor Prof. Helin Kapten); cash prize 150 euros
Congratulations to the winners!
On May 13th, the new contemporary performance festival CPPM Manifestal will be launched, celebrating the development of our two-year MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) students at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
All 13 new productions presented at the festival result from their artistic research projects undertaken to complete their master studies.
Photo: Eero Vabamägi / Postimees
“Over the last two years, the have challenged themselves withstanding numerous workshopis, creative projects, academic tasks and public performances. This extreme diversity of guest artists and teacers and the intensity of the course served as a platform for them to refine their own ways and identities. Manifestal is the logical destination of the journey.” Jüri Nael
The CPPM Manifestal is born in cooperation with our incredible partners: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Uue Loomingu Maja, Elektron, Estonian Dance Agency and Estonian Academy of Arts. The festival is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
This spring, the EAMT will open admission to a new speciality field of singing, focusing on oratorio and ensemble singing. The study content focuses on singing in different styles, from baroque to contemporary. During the two-year master’s program, the student acquires experience in singing in a cappella ensembles as well as in making music with various instrumental ensembles. The program covers both early music, 19-20. century chamber music and contemporary music.
The leading lecturers of the new speciality field will be:
Jörg Dürmüller (tenor, Switzerland)
Kädy Plaas-Kala (soprano, Estonia)
We are looking for all those young singers who have completed their bachelor’s studies, and want to focus their career on ensemble and concert singing, as well as acquire diverse, broad-based vocal and interpretive skills in this field, to apply for the new field of speciality.
COMMUTE (COMposition and MUSic Technology) is a festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, which focuses on sound, visual and music technology. This spring, the festival is taking place for the third time and for the first time it is possible to follow COMMUTE events online.
During the seven days, several web concerts, premieres of various audiovisual works and an exhibition at the ARS Art City will take place, which will reach a wider audience via a web platform.
The COMMUTE program plays an important role in the creation of EAMT students, but we have also hosted guests every year. This year we will present the compositions of teachers and students of electroacoustic music at the Sibelius Academy of the Helsinki University of the Arts, the Tallinn New Music Ensemble will also perform at the festival, presenting new works by young authors of the EAMT.
A more detailed plan of the festival can be seen on the website https://commute.art/
Consultations for applicants for doctoral studies in music and dramatic art with regard to the preparation of research projects will be held on:
April 15 from 17.00 in Zoom April 19 from 11.15 in Zoom
The purpose of the restrictions is to reduce people-to-people contacts more effectively and to prevent the spread of the virus.
All theoretical and semi-practical learning (lectures, seminars, solfeggio classes) will take place in the form of distance learning. In justified cases, individual consultations on these subjects are allowed to be held inside of the Academy. Practical learning is partially allowed, however, the opportunities for distance learning must be used to the maximum.
Students are allowed to be present on the premises of EAMT only:
to participate in practical learning in accordance with the restrictions set out below;
for independent practice;
for individual consultations appointed by the lecturer;
to pass exams and assessments.
The activities mentioned above are subject to the following restrictions:
In regular classrooms, up to 2 people can be present at the same time (for example 1 student and 1 lecturer or 1 student and pianist-concertmaster);
In the main building, rooms A103, C105, D311, A402, A403, A404, D411 and D511 may accommodate up to 3 people at the same time;
The chamber hall and the black box can accommodate up to 5 people at a time, with the exception of performing arts and contemporary performing arts, in case of which up to 8 people can gather
The main hall can accommodate up to 10 people at a time.
In Toom-Kooli 4 study building, up to 16 people can be present at once, in case of larger rooms, 7 people.
In music lessons, the maximum size of a practicing ensemble is 4 students (the temporary focus should currently be on developing individual skills and practising with smaller ensembles);
There is an obligation to wear a mask and keep a distance of 2 meters for all activities and between all people in the room; activities that require a lot of physical activity and active movement (for example dancing) are not allowed indoors.
Rules for entering study buildings:
The main building of the EAMT can only be accessed with a personalized magnetic card. For all others, including students of pedagogical practice, are not allowed to enter the building.
The main building will be closed earlier than usual, i.e. at 22.00. Students are required to leave their classes and hand over the keys no later than 21.45.
The library is open on weekdays from 12:00 to 16:00. Readers from outside the Academy must make a prior arrangement.
NB! Students must inform the Head of the Study Department about their possible illness or the result of the Cov + test: Jane Kreek, 6675 711, jane.kreek@eamt.ee.
In the case of Cov +, please also provide the names of possible close contacts with whom you were in contact on the premises of the Academy (2 days before the onset of symptoms or after receiving the positive Cov test result).
The prestigious global ranking of higher education institutions, QS World University Rankings , which has just been published, shows that the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater has managed to gain a strong position for the third year in a row and is among the 51–100 best universities in the field of music and theater in 2021.
The Juilliard School and the Royal College of Music are holding first and second place respectively. Our partner university, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) in Glasgow, has risen to the third place. The EAMT is ranked next to the music universities of Munich, Hamburg and Cologne, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, St. Petersburg Conservatory and other top universities of music.
It is particularly important and significant that the Academy has managed to maintain a strong position in the rankings even after an extremely difficult year during which international relations to a great extent, had to be transferred over to the virtual world.
The ranking is based on statistical data provided by the higher education institutions as well as surveys conducted among those institutions in which the academic reputation and potential for employment are being assessed. In addition, the impact of the higher education institution in professional research is assessed.
The aim of the rankings of the higher education institutions is to provide background information for the prospective students when planning their educational path, and academic reputation guarantees for the universities. It also provides the higher education institutions with a starting point for evaluating their activities in the educational landscape.
Jörg Dürmüller (tenor, Switzerland)
Kädy Plaas-Kala (soprano, Estonia)
