On Saturday, December 13 at 7 pm, on the occasion of 55th birthday, René Eespere jubilee concert of his selected chamber music works will take place at the Tallinn Guild of Blackheads.
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During his ca. 30-year-long period as a composer, René Eespere has made his name in Estonian music history with widely beloved children’s songs, patriotic choral songs („Ärkamisaeg” [The Time of Awakening], „Kodu on püha” [Home is Holy]), with numerous piano and chamber music works and concertos for different instruments as viola, cello, flute, violin, clarinet and guitar. He is known as well as the author of children’s musical „Metsluiged” [Wild swans], three short ballets – "Inimene ja öö" [Man and a Night], "Fuuriad" [Furies] and "Kodalased" [Ancient Dwellers] and an opera "Gurmaanid" [Gourmets].
René Eespere's music has been performed in most of the European countries, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and other places. Eespere has been awarded the annual ESSR Music Award (1989), the 4th class Order of the White Star (2001), the Live and Shine Award of the CEE (2001-2002) and the Annual Prize of Endowment for Music of Culture Endowment of Estonia (2008).
René Eespere graduated from the piano class of Valdur Roots at the Tallinn Music High School in 1972 and composition class of Anatoli Garshnek at the Tallinn State Conservatoire in 1977 and furthered his studies at the Moscow Conservatoire with Aram Khachaturian and Aleksei Nikolayev from 1977 to 1979. Since 1979 he has been working at the Estonian Acadademy of Music and Theatre. Many composers of a new generation have arisen from among of his students - Urmas Sisask, Ülo Krigul, Tõnis Kaumann, Piret Rips, Timo Steiner.
More about René Eespere: www.eespere.ee
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