Tag: New York City

Children’s choir Laulurõõm at Noorte Laulupidu last summer. Photo by Merle Jalakas   As early spring snow falls over New York City, I can’t help but feel close to icecold Tallinn, where I just came from a concert tour with Esto-Atlantis Choir.    My mother, Maaja Roos, conducted the works of my grandmother and great-grandfather in St. John’s Church ...

Open House New York provides broad audiences with unparalleled access to the  extraordinary architecture of New York and to the people who help design, build, and preserve the city about how the city might take shape in the years ahead,  and address issues including planning, preservation, infrastructure, and  contemporary design.This ...

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.    www.epcc.ee/en     The leading proponent of Arvo Pärt’s music in the world, The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, has won two Grammy awards for recordings of Pärt’s works. The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir will be performing Pärt at Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York ...

Maarja Nuut.       Photo by Siiri Lind / VES   The Absolute Ensemble led by Estonian conductor Kristjan Järvi, got together with composer Gene Pritsker, HAUSCHKA and Folk Music Star Maarja Nuut to revive the Nordic Spirit in a unique Music Show world tour 2017-2018. World premiere: November 2, 2016 at ...

TALLINNA MUUSIKAKESKKOOLI NOORTEKOOR (The Youth Choir of Tallinn Music High School) will be participating in America Cantat VIII in the Bahamas August 21-25, 2016. We invite you to enjoy their pre-festival (August 18 and 20)  and post-festival (August 27 and 28) performances along the US east coast. Admission is free. ...

Animation Generation hosted its first US workshop at the Lakewood Estonian House in Lakewood, N.J. on Saturday, May 7, 2016.  Photo by Kreeta Käeri   In a project funded by a grant from the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Estonian American National Council with the aim of bringing Estonian-American ...

The New York Chamber Music Festival presents the FOYLE - STSURA DUO: Michael Foyle, violin (England) and Maksim Stsura, piano (Estonia, presently resides in London)), in their highly anticipated New York Recital Debut, with a splendid violin & piano program of masterpieces by Mozart, Brahms, Cesar Franck, Lutoslawski. March 2 ...

Pictured at the event, L/R : Eric Suuberg (EANC), Matti Prima (EANC), Karl Altau (JBANC), Ilmar Vanderer (EANC) and Aavo Reinfeldt (EANC)   The Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC), along with the American Latvian Association, held an informative seminar on “The Future of Baltic Nordic Security and Trade:  Sustaining ...