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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

Since the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre has been actively involved in helping students who are citizens of Ukraine and has offered study opportunities to war refugees arriving from Ukraine.

During this spring and summer, we have accepted a total of 20 new Ukrainian students for various music curricula. Most of them will start their studies at EAMT at the beginning of this academic year. Thanks to the support allocated by the Ministry of Education and Research, EAMT is able to offer them free studies in 2022/23. A total of 24 Ukrainian students are currently studying at the academy.

Ukrainian students can study both in Estonian and in English curricula. EAMT offers students in-depth study of the Estonian language and the opportunity to improve their English language skills.

Students who are citizens of Ukraine have the opportunity to apply for a need-based special grant. EAMT also pays incoming students a one-time financial support.

Although the regular admission for 2022 has ended, it is still possible for Ukrainian war refugees to apply for admission on the basis of VÔTA. In particular, this applies to Ukrainian students whose studies have been interrupted due to the war in their homeland. Admission to EAMT depends on the availability of free study places and study opportunities in a specific specialty.

Additional information for citizens of Ukraine:
Tiina Uibo
International Students Advisor
tiina.uibo@eamt.ee
+372 6675 722

Psychological assistance:
Elina Kivinukk
EAMT psychologist
elina.kivinukk@eamt.ee

Additional information: https://kriis.ee/en/security-situation-europe/ukrainian-war-refugees

The European Union Youth Orchestra is looking for the new members!

All applicants for the 2023 Orchestra must be aged between 16 and 26 inclusive on 31 December 2022 and hold passports from one of the 27 European Union member countries. Precise rules and regulations are available here.

The auditions will take place in two rounds:

• Pre-auditions for the strings on Wednesday, 5 October @15.00 in the Chamber hall (C-405), and for wind, brass and percussion on Sunday, 9 October @14.00 in D-511.
• Final round on Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 10.00 in D-511.