Taavi Kull
b. October 6, 1984He has studied piano and choral conducting at Tallinn Music High School. He continued his studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in the field of choral and orchestral conducting with Prof. Toomas Kapten and Prof. Paul Mägi. In 2013, he received a Master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Harding. He has participated in the masterclasses of Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Lutz Köhler and Ronald Zollmann.
Taavi Kull has been working as an artistic director and chief conductor of Tartu University Symphony Orchestra since 2016 and as a conductor of Theatre Vanemuine in Tartu since 2014. He has conducted such Sweden orchestras as Norrlands Operan Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Dalarna Sinfonietta, Västeros Sinfonietta ja Norrköpping Symphony Orchestra. In Estonia, he has worked with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra and others.
As an assistant conductor, he has worked with operas Wozzeck (Berg) and La Bohéme (Puccini) at the Norrlands Operan in Umeå and the opera Peter Grimes (Britten) at the Royal Swedish Opera.
In Theatre Vanemuine, Taavi Kull has conducted operas Carmen (Bizet), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart), Mozart and Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov, 2016), La Traviata (Verdi), Rehepapp (Aints), The Parson of Reigi (Tubin), Into the Fire [Tulleminek] (Lill), musicals Les Misérables (Schönberg), Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) and Sister Act (Menken, 2020), children’s opera Guugelmuugelpunktkomm (Aints, 2017) and children’s musicals by Pajusaar and Ehala, operetta progammes Evening with Strauss and Evening with Kálmán (2015) and the ballet Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev).
Taavi Kull has also conducted the premiere performance of Age Veeroos’s chamber opera Grid in Germany (2011) and Marianna Liik’s/Sander Mölder’s Frequently Asked Questions [Korduma kippuvad küsimused], the contemporary opera project of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2014).
In 2017, Märt-Matis Lill, Jan Kaus, Taago Tubin and Taavi Kull were awarded the Annual Prize of the Estonian Theatre for the opera Into the Fire.
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