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The 4th Tallinn International Piano Competition will take place from November 25 to December 3 at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. The registration is now open and the deadline is October 1.
All three competition rounds will take place at the Great Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. The participants will be evaluated by the jury consisting of internationally acclaimed artists and professors. In the Finals competition finalists will perform together with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Arvo Volmer. The conditions of the competition are available HERE.
The previous winners of the competition are Mihkel Poll (2006), Kristi Kapten (2011) and Anna Szałucka (2016). The competition is organised by the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Association of Estonian Professional Pianists.
At the beginning of December the plagiarism prevention software URKUND was tested by EAMT at the initiative of the Department of Musicology, Music Pedagogy and Cultural Management. The assessment confirmed that it is a modern and efficient tool, which can be used to fairly quickly find information on the Internet that might correspond to the texts the students have written. In January a decision was made to start using the paid service of URKUND. The service is provided in Estonia by the Education and Youth Board on the basis of a consortium agreement. Payment for the service is based on the number of students at the educational institution.
URKUND is often mistakenly called as a plagiarism detection software. In fact, it helps to find matches between student’s text and an online text, but possible plagiarism must be identified by the user of the software. Above all, URKUND is helpful in preventing plagiarism by ascertaining the originality and correctness of the work before the evaluation of the student work.
Homoglyphs can be used for disguising plagiarized text by replacing letters in source texts with visually identical letters from other scripts. URKUND notifies the user about the existence of such homoglyphs.
To use URKUND, the text needing evaluation must be sent from the authorized e-mail address to the URKUND server. An analysis report will be returned via email. As this is first and foremost a measure for preventing plagiarism, it will also benefit students who can use URKUND to check the originality and correctness of their work. To do this, the student must send his/her work to the e-mail address of his/her lecturer’s URKUND account. The analysis report is then sent to both the student and the teacher. EAMT faculty members may receive their URKUND account address by writing to Eerik Jõks at eerik.joks@eamt.ee.
Researcher Brigitta Davidjants and lecturer Eerik Jõks assisted in testing URKUND at EAMT.
New e-course starting in March at the Continuing Education Centre – „Managing Art Projects with Societal Impact (MAPSI)“. Lecturer PhD Kaari Kiitsak-Prikk, Head of Cultural Management Studies.
The aim of the course is to deepen the understanding of the specifics relating to the managing the art’s societal impact. The content of the course is built on MAPSI study e-book, video lectures, online presentations, individual online assignments, case analysis. See also: https://eamt.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/21.03-info.pdf
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is a partner of the Unemployment Insurance Fund Töötukassa. Upon participating in labour market training, you accept the rights and obligations related to participation. If you are registered as unemployed, you have the right to receive grants and commuting and accommodation benefits. For more information – terms and conditions of participation in training: https://www.tootukassa.ee/koolitused.
Last week (January 19–22, 2021), a training and inspiration week “Evolving Academy” took place at the Academy of Music and Theatre, during which a number of lectures on various topics took place. There were three so-called big lectures held in the main hall:
Coach Raul Rebane: “From another angle. How to create your own story?”
The media is a technical tool for disseminating and building one’s own image. Fear of making mistakes prevents one from speaking, but with the right exercises and preparation methods, one can train and gain confidence for successful media communication. “Own story” is a system of values on which all business and communication is based.
Lecturer Päivi Arjas (Sibelius Academy): “Performance coaching for musicians – what it is and what it can be”
The presentation focused on the Sibelius Academy’s study program, which addresses mental and physical factors that affect performance, communication with the audience and working under stress, as well as techniques that either help to improve the skills and abilities arising from these factors or overcome certain limitations.
EAMT psychologist Elina Kivinukk: “Supporting a sense of security at work and in class”
Estonian Academy of Music and Theater stands for a safe and respectful learning and working environment. Last year, the Senate approved measures to ensure equal treatment and a complaints procedure that can help to address possible complaints in more detail. Topics of equal treatment, bullying and harassment were touched upon. Suggestions were made on how to support oneself and others’ sense of security in everyday communication, at work and during lessons.
In addition, trainings took place:
Senior Lecturer Maret Mursa Tormis: “Introduction to Alexander Technique” F.M. Alexander has said, “My technique is based on inhibition, the inhibition of undesirable, unwanted responses to stimuli, and hence it is primarily a technique for the development of the control of human reaction.” The ability to stop, to delay the reaction until we are adequately prepared to do so, Alexander calls inhibition. The aim of the short course was to introduce Alexander principle and its use in working with musicians.
Senior lecturer Heiki Mätlik: “Student’s GREAT study plan – soloist, member of an orchestra, pedagogue, early music or contemporary music interpreter?”, which focused on the questions: how to plan the final goal of one’s studies; where to arrive at the end of five years of academic study; how to orient the repertoire according to one’s field, choose the literature, etc.
EAMT psychologist Elina Kivinukk: “How to give and receive feedback (and not against your fingers)?” – how to give feedback during lessons, at the workplace or after the performance in a way that is useful and motivating? How to handle a situation where someone shares a criticism that you do not agree with? EAMT psychologist Elina Kivinukk offered ideas and examples on this topic, based on the research of Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone.
Prof. Lembit Orgse, Prof. Henry-David Varema, Prof. Peeter Sarapuu, Lecturer Eerik Jõks: “Observations and best practices in the implementation of e-learning” – experiences were shared in regards to the e-learning solutions for theoretical-practical subjects of interpretation pedagogy (professional didactics seminars, pedagogical practice, etc.), consequent changes in the content of subjects and in the forms of implementation; as well as the practical possibilities of distance learning and innovations in conducting speciality lessons – the opportunities during the period of pandemic to support students’ autonomy, etc.
Language editor Merit Lassmann: “Our everyday mother tongue” – everyday life requires, to a greater or lesser extent, from all of us to communicate in writing – in order to gain communication courage, we tried to solve the following questions: how to maintain good literacy after many years have passed since your last Estonian class; where to get help in case of language hesitations and doubts; how many language rules have changed, what we should know about these changes, and so on.
Mai Simson, doctoral student in Music, and Hanna Junti, doctoral student in Theater, will represent the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater in the competition “Science in 3 Minutes” organized by the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The ERR research portal Novaator also published articles on the topics of the competition lectures:
Mai Simson “The Miracle of Jonah – Caught or Uncaught” (in Estonian)
Hanna Junti “In theatre bodies experience the subjectivity and objectivity of time” (in Estonian)
The live broadcast of the “Science in 3 Minutes” ceremonial final will take place on February 5, 2021 on the website of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
- PHOTO: Silvia Tobias’ suitcases contained manuscripts, articles, newspaper clippings and personal documents of Rudolf Tobias. Author/source: Mai Simson (see also: https://novaator.err.ee/1608080572/joonase-ime-tabatud-voi-tabamata)
- PHOTO: Hanna Junti, PhD student of Theater at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. Author/ source: private collection (see also: https://novaator.err.ee/1608085090/teatris-kogevad-kehad-aja-subjektiivsust-ja-objektiivsust)
The Cultural Management MA program is calling all interested composers to put together a sound book for a Podcast that we are preparing.
The (working) title of the podcast is The Art of Survival and together with guest speakers we are exploring different contexts of work in the arts sector during pandemic (but not only) times.
We are looking for the opening (jingle), short ‘pause’ sounds (breaks between talks) and endings that will be used for the podcast as well as for promotional materials of the podcast.
The intro and outro should be no longer than 10 seconds. Regarding the style, we leave the ideas for the composer’s interpretation.
Deadline for submission is 25th January at anna.ranczakowska@eamt.ee
We will choose the most suitable composition by voting together with our alumni.
The prize for the chosen composition is 500 euro.
For more information and inspirations, please visit our website, facebook and instagram @culturalmasters.
In case you have any questions regarding the call, please contact coordinator of Cultural Management studies Anna Maria Ranczakowska @ anna.ranczakowska@eamt.ee
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre will soon host the New Time Music 2.0 event, a two day online conference concerning distance learning. The event will take place on 1st and 2nd of December 2020 and more info can be found here: https://newtimemusic.eu/
New Time Music 2.0 is a Nordplus founded cooperation project between Turku University of Applied Sciences (FI), Norwegian Academy of Music (NO), The Royal Academy of Music of Aarhus/Aalborg (DK) and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
From Monday, 2 November 2020:
- The door of the main entrance of the Academy opens only with a personalised magnetic card.
- Only activities related to study and research at the Academy of Music and Theater may take place in the study building. Other classes or activities involving people from outside the Academy are strictly forbidden.
- Guests may be admitted to the building under special circumstances. Each guest must check in at the front desk (you are kindly asked to enter your name on the registration form, citing the reason for the visit and the person to be visited).
- Guests of concerts and performances taking place in the Great Hall and Blackbox will enter the building from the Sakala Street entrance. For concerts taking place in the Chamber Hall guests are registered at the front desk of the main entrance.
- To access the Library, please call: +372 6675 751 (books can be ordered in advance at the e-mail address: rmtk@eamt.ee).
Stay healthy!
Estonian String Players Competition 2020, taking place from November 5 to 13 in Tallinn, marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of composer Eduard Tubin. This year’s competition will feature more than 30 participants, judged by an international jury. All rounds of the competition will be held at the Concert Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
The four-round competition will be held in specialities of violin, viola, cello, and double bass. As a result of the preliminary round (video round) in the spring, 27 violinists, 5 violists, 8 cellists and 4 double bassists were qualified for the first round.
The compulsory work in the first round should be chosen from the selection of the works by Eduard Tubin, Heino Eller, and Ludvig Juht. The second round includes a freely chosen piece by Estonian composer that is composed after the year of 1980. Among other pieces, the selection for the final round includes the Violin Concerto No. 1 and 2 as well as the Double Bass Concerto by Eduard Tubin.
Participants will be judged by a five-member international jury consisting of Susie Mészáros (viola, Royal College of Music, London), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello, Finland), Eva Bindere (violin, Latvian Academy of Music), Jiri Parviainen (double bass, Finland). The chairman of the jury is Kristel Pappel (Professor of Musicology at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre).
The first and the second round will be held from November 5 to 10. The final round allowing the best competitors to perform with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Arvo Volmer will be held from November 11 to 13. All rounds of the competition will be held at the Concert Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and are open to the public. All rounds can also be watched live on YouTube.
Competitions for string players in Estonia started in 1968, at first covering the specialities of violin and cello. The viola as well as the double bass, were included from the year 1975. The competitions were held until 1987, followed by a break of almost 30 years. The tradition of the string players competitions was restored in 2015 at the discretion of the Estonian String Teachers Association in cooperation with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
The winners of the string players competition include Jüri Gerretz, Tiiu Peäske (Heinsalu), Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Peeter Paemurru, Arvo Leibur, Mart Laas, Henry-David Varema, and Leho Karin among others. The winners of the previous Estonian String Players Competition held in 2015 include Marcel Johannes Kits, Linda-Anette Verte, and Hans Christian Aavik.
The Estonian String Players Competition is organised by the Estonian String Teachers Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
* Translation: Estonian Music Information Center: https://emic.ee/estonian-string-players-competition-2020
At the request of the Rector’s Office, starting from Monday, October 12, 2020 all employees, students and guests of the Academy are kindly asked to wear a face mask in our study buildings when it is not possible to consistently maintain a sufficient physical distance.
Our goal is to protect our faculty, staff and students and to keep the Academy open for study and practice. Wearing a mask is necessary in lectures, group lessons, meetings, while attending concerts and in other situations when a room is being shared for a longer period of time and wearing a mask does not directly interfere with a specific activity.
The Health Board emphasizes that wearing a face mask may reduce the spread of infection by minimising the release of respiratory droplets from infected people to others. Face masks should be considered as a good complimentary measure for established preventive practices, such as keeping physical distance, proper hand and respiratory hygiene. Correct use of face masks is key for their effectiveness and safety. Hands must be cleaned with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitiser after removing the mask.
View the information from the Health Board and instructions how to use masks in English: https://www.terviseamet.ee/sites/default/files/Nakkushaigused/Trukised/facemask-infographic_eng.pdf
Disposable masks will be on sale at the Academy cafeteria, and at the concert hall entrance before public events. Additional trash cans for disposable masks will be located at the main entrance and next to the hand sanitiser stations on each floor.