THE PÄRNU MUSIC FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE 13-22 JULY 2022
EFO concerts at Pärnu Music Festival
“MYTHOS” WINS DIAPASON D’OR DE L’ANNÉE
Congratulations to Erkki-Sven Tüür, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra for winning this year’s Contemporary Music “Diapason d’or” France’s Diapason Magazine has selected the best CDs of 2020 and singled 17 of them out as the “Diapason d’or de l’année” The Estonian Festival Orchestra’s recording of works by Erkki-Sven Tüür on Alpha Classics has taken first [...]
THE PÄRNU MUSIC FESTIVAL GOES AHEAD THIS SUMMER FROM 16 – 23 JULY
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 [...]
ERKKI-SVEN TÜÜR “MYTHOS” INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 13 MARCH
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 [...]
Debut tour to Japan 2019
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 [...]
THE ESTONIAN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA DEBUTS TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM AT BBC PROMS & ELBPHILHARMONIE
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 [...]
London and Hamburg 2018
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 of Europe 2018
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) [...]
Estonian Festival Orchestra makes its debut tour in Baltics & Scandinavia
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 [...]
18 July 20:00 Pärnu Concert Hall
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