This Wednesday (October 1) is the 50th annual International Music Day, with 100 concerts taking place across Estonia to mark the occasion – most of which are free to attend. The International Music ...

Perhaps more than any other country in the world, the history of the Baltic nation of Estonia is a story set to song. Whether under German, Danish, Swedish, or Soviet occupation, Estonians have long ...

This week, the spotlight will be on Estonia's top music stars as they take the stage for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) in the U.K. The festival marks the start of a special ...

Tallinn Music Week is Estonia’s annual celebration of its music. This year though, Russia’s continued presence in Ukraine ensures the event has taken on a significance no one would have wished for.

His country was invaded on 24 February. This outdoor performance is in Estonia’s capital city Tallinn, in the main square of the former industrial district Telliskivi. He says “we have a common value ...

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) - the multi-venue city showcase fest, now in its 12th year - is nothing if not open-minded in its music curation. So, whether you’re a mosher or chin-stroking academic ...

What comes to mind when I consider Estonian music in 2025? Tommy Cash, choral singing, and Arvo Pärt. Cash recorded Estonia’s most popular song of the year. Representing his country at Eurovision, he ...

Veljo Tormis, a prolific Estonian composer whose innovative choral works helped propel his Baltic nation’s drive to restore independence, died Jan. 21 in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. He was ...

Jaak Sooäär (b. 1972) was born in Tallinn, Estonia. In 1994, he graduated from the Music College in Tallinn and, in 2001, from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Since 2001, he has taught ...

The music industry is in the process of an infrastructure overhaul. This is due to a digitally fragmented market and the nature of the horizontal pipeline through which music is created, distributed ...