This year’s Pärnu Music Festival will be going ahead as planned from 16 - 23 July with a re-imagined programme, a focus on both young and established Estonian talent, a celebration of Estonian composer Lepo Sumera and the world premiere of a new work by Tõnu Kõrvits. “I am ecstatic that we will be able [...]
PAAVO JÄRVI AND THE ESTONIAN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CELEBRATE THE 60TH BIRTHDAY OF A CLOSE FRIEND & COLLEAGUE "Paavo has been conducting my music since the beginning of the 1990’s. He has recorded three portrait albums of my music, has been the initiator of many works and conducted a large number of world premieres." ERKKI-SVEN [...]
TOUR LOCATIONS April 2019 Thu 25 Concert 1: Hamamatsu Act City Concert Hall (prog 1) Fri 26 Concert 2: Harmony Hall, Fukui (prog 1) Sat 27 Concert 3: Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya (prog 1) Sun 28 Concert 4: Osaka Festival Hall (prog 2) Mon 29 Concert 5: Hiroshima Bunka [...]
On 13 August – immediately following this year’s Pärnu Music Festival where “unanticipated miracles happen every summer in the quiet paradise of Estonia’s seaside capital” (theartsdesk) and “a tranquil bathing place is making a world career” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) - Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra travelled to London to make history with the ensemble’s debut at the BBC Proms. The special [...]
TOUR SCHEDULE Mon 13 Concert 1: London, Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms) Wed 15 Concert 2: Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie PROGRAMME PÄRT: Symphony No. 3 GRIEG: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16 Interval SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82 [...]
TOUR LOCATIONS Thu 18 Concert 1: Brussels (prog 1) Sat 20 Concert 2: Zurich (prog 2) Sun 21 Concert 3: Cologne (prog 3) Mon 22 Concert 4: Berlin (prog 2) Tue 23 Concert 5: Vienna (prog 2) Wed 24 Concert 6: Luxembourg (prog 3) [...]
In 2011, Paavo Järvi founded the Pärnu Music Festival, set in the charming sea-side resort 90km south of Tallinn, and created the Estonian Festival Orchestra as the festival’s main resident ensemble. The hand-picked orchestra brings together the best of Estonian talent, along with leading musicians from Europe’s top orchestras which Järvi met during his conducting career. After [...]
Join the EFO in their first concert at this year's Pärnu Festival, with cello soloist Truls Mørk. Erkki-Sven Tüür: L’ombra della croce Antonin Dvorak: Cello concerto Kristjan Järvi: Korale for 80 Carl Nielsen: Symphony No 1 Soloist Truls Mørk (cello) Buy tickets here
The EFO brings the Pärnu Festival to a close where they are joined by bass singer Ain Anger. Erkki-Sven Tüür: Sow the wind Modest Mussorgski: Songs and dances of death Pjotr Tchaikovsky: Gremin’s aria Pjotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 Soloist Ain Anger (bass) Buy tickets here [...]