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The celebration of the School Music Day dedicated to Heino Kaljuste will be held on November 15 in collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre music pedagogy and the choir conducting class of the Tallinn Ballet and Music School (MUBA).

As part of the School Music Day, EAMT students can learn about the work of MUBA choirs and visit different classes. The day ends with a discussion about Heino Kaljuste’s contribution to the development of Estonian school and choral music and today’s challenges in teaching music.

PROGRAM

8.30-9.30 – toddler choir (II-III class, girls and boys), conductors Jaanika Kuusik, Külli Kiivet
9.40-10.25 – II class solfeggio
10.35-11.20 – I class choir, conductor Jaanika Kuusik or VII klassi solfedžo (please choose)
11.30-12.15 – Janne Fridolin’s, Ingrid Kõrvits’ conducting class (hour is divided into half a’ 20 min)
12.30 – a tour of MUBA and discussion “Heino Kaljuste and our time”

Registration is open until November 14, please contact Kristi Kiilu (kristi.kiilu@eamt.ee).

Mai Simson will defend her doctoral thesis on 30 November at 14.30 room A-402 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Music):

„Rudolf Tobiase oratooriumi „Joonas“ tekstikriitilisest redigeerimisest“
(On the critical editing of Rudolf Tobias’s oratorio „Jona“)

Supervisor: Professor Kerri Kotta, PhD
Opponent: Mihhail Gerts, PhD

The doctoral thesis is available HERE (in Estonian) and in print in the EAMT library.

Rudolf Tobias started writing the oratorio “Jonah” already while working in Tartu
(1904–1908), but most of the work was completed in Germany, where the composer
went in order to get acquainted with Western European music life and find more diverse
job opportunities. The final score of “Jonah” was completed in 1909. The premiere of
the piece took place the same year on November 26, in St. Andrew’s Church in Leipzig.
After the premiere, the composer conducted individual numbers of the piece at various
concerts in both, Germany and Estonia, but the oratorio as a whole could not be
performed again during Tobias’ life.
The oratorio was brought back to performance again only before Estonia regained its
independence, where the oratorio played an important role in confirming national
identity. The scores of the work were prepared in a new redaction by pianist and
musicologist Vardo Rumessen. In the context back then, the question about the original
form of the oratorio remained in the background, and the main goal was to restore the
piece in a monumental and representative form. Today, however, in addition to the
national aspects of the oratorio, other aspects have become important too, as “Jonah” is
not only a national monument, but also an outstanding masterpiece that can be
interpreted in many different ways.
For a long time, conductor Tõnu Kaljuste had also been interested in performing
“Jonah”. To this end, he wished to study Tobias’ manuscripts thoroughly and to prepare
a new version that took into account the composer’s writings as accurately as possible.
My task in this process was initially to compare the version of Vardo Rumessen with
the manuscript of Rudolf Tobias, and later to edit the new version. This in turn grew
into the topic of my dissertation.
The aim of my research was to describe the problems that occur while being in the
process of creating a critical redaction of “Jonah”. The critical edition would be based
on a critical examination and comparison of available sources and would consider the
composer’s original intentions, as much as it is possible to reconstruct them. As a result
of my research, I hope to publish a critical edition of the piece in the future.

The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Classical Music Performance department competition for pianists takes place on the 3rd of December 2022. This time it is named after the renowned Estonian pianist and long time EAMT professor Heljo Sepp, whose 100th anniversary is being celebrated this year.

All EAMT piano speciality students can participate in the competition. The program lenght is 25–30 minutes and must contain at least 12 minutes of Estonian piano music of free choice and one etude. All works must be performed from memory.

The competition has different monetary awards and for the first time an Estonian Cultural Endowment Heljo Sepp Scholarship will be given out.

For registration please send the program latest on the 28th of November to mati.mikalai@eamt.ee

On November 1 at 2:30 p.m., the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre will host an audition for students, and those who successfully pass will have the opportunity to participate in ERSO’s work.

In order to participate, please prepare the following pieces:

Violins and woodwinds – first part of a concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Violas – first part of a concerto by Carl Stamitz or Franz Hoffmeister

Cellos – first part of a concerto by Joseph Haydn

Double basses – first part of a concerto by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf or Johann Baptist Vanhal

Horns – first part of the W. A. Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 (with cadenza 39) and first part of the Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1

Trumpets – first part of a concerto by Joseph Haydn

Trombones – a piece chosen by Andres Kontus

Tubas – first part of a concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Percussion – orchestral excerpts chosen by Maarja Nuut

In addition, please prepare 4 orchestral excerpts.

For registration, we ask students majoring in string instruments to contact Prof. Arvo Leibur, and students majoring in wind and percussion instruments to Prof. Toomas Vavilov.

EAMT master’s student Otto Iivari’s ambisonic work “Thở” was recognized as Gold Winner in Category 1: Contemporary Music, Computer Music at the 6th European Students 3D audio competition.

The award ceremony took place on Saturday, October 8 in Graz, Austria as part of the ORF musikprotokoll festival.

The competition is a cooperation of the Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik der Kunstuniversität Graz (IEM) and Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT), and this year for the first time also with the ORF musikprotokoll. The fourth partner is the FH St. Pölten, on whose Audio Mostly the semi-finals took place.

The competition categories were Contemporary / Computer music, Audio Drama / Documentary / Soundscapes and Music Recording / Studio Production. Among the finalists were participants from Germany, Austria, England, Estonia and Finland.

Otto Iivari describes his work “Thở” as an acousmatic piece that breathes through the spectrum of vietnamese nao bat cymbals. The title translates from Vietnamese as ‘exhale’ or ‘breathing out’. Zooming in on the smallest organic details and vast harmony, it is an exploration where a combination of recorded and synthesized sounds merge. The musical gestures of the piece are inspired by the controlled chaos of accumulating, impulse-like sound Objects.

In his speech, the jury emphasized the musical line of the work, the control over the material, the sensibility of timbre and detail. The treatment of the 3D space of the work was highlighted as the spatialization being not a separate dimension of the composition, but as an organic feature of the sounds.

The work was first highlighted in September at the Audio mostly conference in St. Pölten, Austria where the audience voted the piece their favourite one.

Otto Iivari is currently a master’s student in electroacoustic composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Malle Maltis, and at the moment he is taking his Erasmus semester in Graz, Austria (University of Music and Performing Art Graz – institute of electronic music and acoustics).

Learn more here.

The conference „Performativity and Transgression“ takes place October 13–15, 2022 at the University of Tartu, it is organized by University of Tartu, the Institute of Cultural Studies, together with the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars (ANTS) and the Union of Estonian Theatre Researchers and Critics (ETUKÜ).

The keynote speakers of the conference are Ene-Liis Semper (Estonia) and Ida Müller and Vegard Vinge (Germany/Norway).

Presentations will also be given by researchers, teachers and doctoral students of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre:

• Madli Pesti „The Reception of Transgressive Performances. The Case of NO99“
• Ana Falcon „How a Performance Led to a Latnix Community Organisation in Estonia“
• Luule Epner „Transgressive Collaborations: The Case of Von Krahl Theatre“
• Tiit Ojasoo „Who Can Cross the Border?“
• Jüri Nael „Transformative Learning Through Transgressive Performer Training Pedagogy in the Context of Higher Education“
• Eva-Liisa Linder „Outsiders or Innovators? The Untold Story of Queer Theatre in Estonia“
• Kristel Pappel „Law and Order in Estonian Musical Theatre“
• Karl Saks „Sound Art and Performativity in Johhan Rosenberg „traps““

Registration to participate is open here until October 7 (participation fee is 20 euros).

For the full programme and further information, see the conference’s website

The e-shop of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is now open. You can buy these souvenirs with the EAMT symbolism:

• pencil
• ballpoint pen
• tote bag
• T-shirt
• sweatshirt
• silver badge

T-shirts, sweatshirts and tote bags are made from environmentally sustainable materials.

E-shop is here: eamt.ee/pood/ (also in English)

Orders can be picked up at the EAMT parcel machine on the first floor of the educational building or at Omniva parcel machines across Estonia.

The master’s program educating cultural managers, which started in 2002 at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday, 16 September.

More than 90 people have graduated from the curriculum, including managers and specialists of theatre, museum and concert institutions, decision-makers in the cultural field, lecturers, producers, editors, etc. both in the public, commercial and third sectors all over Estonia and outside. The interdisciplinary, flexible and international curriculum connects practitioners, experts and academics as well as students from Estonia and many other countries. For the last ten years of operation, cultural organization has been taught at EAMT in cooperation with the Estonian Business School (EBS) on the basis of a joint curriculum. According to the academic leader of the curriculum, prof. Annukka Jyrämä, the programme follows a challenge-based pedagogy, based on the double diamond model. It enables students to connect theory with practice from the ground up and develop their understanding of how tools, theoretical models and frameworks enable us to analyze and respond to professional changes, trends and innovations.

On the occasion of the anniversary, two books on cultural organization will be presented on 16 September at 13.00 in the EAMT Chamber Hall (Tatari 13). Collection of articles “Managing the Arts IV” is a sequel to the publications “Managing the Arts” (2006), “Managing the Arts II” (2010) and “Managing the Arts III” (2018). The collection analyzes the transformation of the field of cultural organization, looking back at the history of cultural organization with a firm footing in the present and a clear future orientation. This time, the collection, which is published separately in Estonian and English, is divided into four parts, in which the focus is on cultural organization as a field of research, practice and study, and a bunch of contemporary contributions selected from among master’s theses are also presented. The topics discussed in the collection of articles are discussed by several experts related to the curriculum of cultural management – alumni who today are researchers or practitioners. The round table will be held in English.

A book  for cultural management  academics and practitioners called “Managing Cultural Joint Ventures” will be introduced as well. The  book  has been recently published by the Routledge publishing house and it is co-authored by prof. Tanja Johansson,  prof. Annukka Jyrämä and Kaari Kiitsak-Prikk. This book provides an in-depth exploration of two key aspects of managing cultural collaborations: managing the multiple identities of venture participants and managing the diverse images and brand relationships.

EAMT Cultural Management programme is currently hosting its 10th batch of students. The group of 16 students includes citizens of Estonia, Finland, Latvia as well as Azerbaijan, Morocco, South Korea, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia. The next admission to the Cultural Management joint programme (fully in English) will take place in 2023. The admission period for foreign students will begin on 15 January 2023, and for local students on 6 June 2023.

Additional information:
Kaari Kiitsak-Prikk
Head of studies
Cultural Management MA programme
kaari.kiitsak-prikk@eamt.ee

The orientation week for new international students (degree and exchange students) took place from 28 August to 2 September. In frames of the event, the opening lecture of university studies, house tours, meetings with the representative of the Police and Border Guard Board, Health Board, EAMT Student Union and Erasmus Student Network were organised. The purpose of the week was to bring our new international community together and enable them to have a smooth transition to the new academic year. The orientation week was organised by the Study department in collaboration with the Student Union and the International office.

In 2022 more than 100 international students will start their studies at the EAMT out of whom 37 students are arriving here under the Erasmus programme. 9 students are starting their studies in the Contemporary Performance and Composition (CoPeCo) programme, and 16 new students have been enrolled in the Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) programme.

Students come from numerous countries around the world – from the United States to Azerbaijan and from Brazil to Australia.

We wish everyone a successful start to the new academic year!

Photo credit: Mari Köhler ja Hanneleen Pihlak

On 12–14 September, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre hosts the 2022 Networking Performance Art Production Workshop (NPAPW22). It is an annual workshop and gathering of an international community exploring technologies that utilise advanced networks to enable interactive arts instruction, master classes, multisite performances, and remote auditions. These technologies make it possible to connect people in different locations to collaborate in real time.

The workshop starts with an introduction to these technologies, followed by a presentation of different software solutions (such as eduMEET, JPEG XS, Jacktrip, LoLa, Sonobus, and Ultragrid) and demonstrations of existing projects.

For example, the LoLa (Low Latency) system enables musicians to make music together at the same time with people who are up to 4000 km apart, thanks to a low-latency video and audio transmission system and very quick Internet connection.

To showcase the technology, on 12 September at 7 pm a free public LoLa concert will take place in EAMT Great Hall and Vilnius Music and Theatre Academy at the same time. A classical duo will be performing: Mihkel Poll (piano) will be playing from Tallinn and Henry-David Varema (cello) from Vilnius. Musicians are playing duo repertoire while being 600 km apart from each other. The audience is very welcome to both concert halls.

NPAPW22 is jointly organised by GÉANT and Internet2 and supported by EENet (Estonian NREN) of HTM and will be hosted by and taking place at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia.

Registration is open (also for 1-2 days): www.npapws.org

Learn more: https://sites.google.com/eamt.ee/npapw2022

Most of the presentations will be broadcasted on EAMT YouTube channel here.

Additional information:
Ms. Steffie Bosman
steffie.bosman@geant.org

Mr. Paolo Girol
paolo.girol@eamt.ee