BRAVO! CONCERT SERIES • ERSO Concert Series 2026/2027

BRAVO! CONCERT SERIES 

ERSO’s Radiant Soloists

Supported by Liviko

In the “BRAVO!” concert series, five brilliant soloists from ERSO step into the spotlight, offering the audience a fresh and engaging insight into classical music.

At the series' opening concert in January, Sarah D'Amico will perform Carl Reinecke’s romantic Harp Concerto on her enchanting instrument. The evening is conducted by Giordano Bellincampi, a long-time friend of both ERSO and Estonian audiences. In addition to the harp concerto, the program features Johannes Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, which includes the delight of a familiar student song, known locally as the folk tune Mu isamaa armas. The concert’s romantic atmosphere is brought to a brilliant conclusion by Felix Mendelssohn’s grand Scottish Symphony.

The protagonist of the March concert is cellist Indrek Leivategija, performing as the soloist in Antonín Dvořák’s immensely popular Cello Concerto. The evening is conducted by the Netherlands-based Marc Albrecht, whose extensive experience in music theatre will bring to life the powerful operatic overtures of Richard Wagner.

In April, ERSO’s own brilliant soloists, violinist Triin Ruubel and cellist Theodor Sink, join forces on stage. Their engaging creative dialogue breathes life into a true monument of music history: Johannes Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello. Conducted by Chief Conductor Olari Elts, the program also features a new work by London-based Estonian composer Mihkel Kerem and Jean Sibelius’s romantic Symphony No. 1.

The fourth concert of the series in late April brings percussionist Vambola Krigul to the stage to premiere a brand-new composition by his brother, composer Ülo Krigul. Conductor Kristiina Poska has also programmed another contemporary work, Elis Hallik’s Transience, which seeks to capture fleeting beauty through music. Representing the golden repertoire of the classics, the concert will conclude with Franz Schubert’s magnificent Symphony No. 9.

I: BELLINCAMPI AND MENDELSSOHN

Friday, 22 January 2027 at 7 p.m. at the Estonia Concert Hall

Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

Carl Reinecke
Harp Concerto in E minor, Op. 182
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor Scottish, Op. 56, MWV N 18

SARAH D'AMICO harp, ERSO, conductor GIORDANO BELLINCAMPI

II: LEIVATEGIJA AND DVOŘÁK

Friday, 19 March 2027 at 7 p.m. at the Estonia Concert Hall
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191
Richard Wagner
Prelude to the opera Lohengrin
Prelude to the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Overture to the opera Tannhäuser

INDREK LEIVATEGIJA cello, ERSO, conductor MARC ALBRECHT

III: ELTS AND SIBELIUS

Wednesday, 7 April 2027 at 7 p.m. at the Estonia Concert Hall

Mihkel Kerem
New work

Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

TRIIN RUUBEL violin, THEODOR SINK cello, ERSO, conductor OLARI ELTS

IV: POSKA AND SCHUBERT

Friday, 30 April 2027 at 6 p.m. (pre-concert) and at 7 p.m. at the Estonia Concert Hall

Elis Hallik
Transience

Ülo Krigul
New work

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in C major, D 944

VAMBOLA KRIGUL percussion, ERSO, conductor KRISTIINA POSKA

CONCERT SERIES PRICES: 

Category I tickets: €180 / €150*

Category II tickets: €135 / €105*
Category III tickets: €114 / €84*
Category IV tickets: €75 / €45*

A concert series ticket includes admission to four concerts. 

*Discounted prices apply to students, university students, and pensioners upon presentation of a valid ID at the ticket check.

Some Category IV tickets may be for seats with limited visibility. 

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