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Exsultate, jubilate • Mustjala festival 2023

Sat 08.07.2023 at 19:00
 (Kihelkonna)

Saturday, June 8, 2023 Kihelkonna Church, Kihelkonna, Saaremaa

EXSULTATE, JUBILATE

Sonora Vaice – soprano (Läti)
Piret Aidulo – organ
Chamber orchestra ME105
Conductor Andrus Kallastu

Program:

Georg Friedrich Händel – Organ Concerto No. 6 in F-major HWV 305a
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata „Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut“ BWV 199
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Motet „Exsultate, jubilate“ KV 165

In cooperation with Kihelkonna Sacred Music Days and Uus Kontsert


SONORA VAICE is one of the leading opera and concert singers in Latvia, confirmed by the Latvian Grand Music prize of honour and participated in many of LNOB best productions. She has also been awarded at several international vocal competitions.

Beside the Latvian National Opera and Ballet the singer has been demanded to international festival and opera houses  such as: Staatstheater Stuttgart, Semperoper Dresden, Bolshoj Teatr Moscow, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Olympia Halle in München, Estonia National Opera, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Insbruk Tage Alter Music, Sydney Opera Festival with Covent Garden’s production and many others.

Sonora Vaice holds a Master's degree (2005) from Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music. Prof. Kārlis Zariņš, Prof. Ludmila Brauna, Prof. Axel Everaert, Prof. Helge Dorsch, Marklund-Petersone, Eytan Pressen, Donald Kaasch, Irena Milkeviciute, Massimiliano Bullo.

With Jenny Hall's financial support, she had an opportunity to study with Iris dell'Aqua, Vera Rosza, Gerald Martin Moore. And vocal studies at Conservatory of Bari (Italy) by Prof. Katia Angeloni scholarship from Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her first diploma is in Choral conducting department from Jazeps Medins MC.

Her repertoire includes such roles as Verdi's Violetta (La traviata) and Gilda (Rigoletto), Donizetti's Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Margarita in Gounod Faust,  Puccini's Mimì (La bohème), Mozart's Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Aspasia (Mitridate, re di Ponto), Monteverdi's Poppea (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Rossini's Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Rubinstein's Tamara (The Demon), Bellini's Adalgisa (Norma), Leoncavallo's Nedda (Pagliacci), Gluck's Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Massenet's Manon, and Händel's Alcina, Armida,  Golijov`s Nuria (Ainadamar), G. Gershwin Serena (Porgy and Bess), Straus Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Lehar`s Hanna (Lustige Witwe) among others.

Had an honor to work together with such a great masters Graham Vick, Philippe Arlaud, Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Dietmar Pflegerl,Klauss Maria Braundauer, Ritchard Tognetti, Andres Mustonen, Thomas Hengelbrock ,Will Humburg, Jury Simonov, Eri Klaas, Andris Nelsons,  Andris Poga, Mārtiņš Ozoliņš etc.

CD – Romantic Duets - Sonora Vaice /soprano/ & Warren Mok /tenor/, LNO orchestra, Normunds Vaicis /Conductor/-Riga recording studio

CD – Mozart:Arie da Concerto – Sonora Vaice /soprano/, Chamber orcherstra of LNO, Normunds Vaicis /Conductor/-Riga recording studio

 

Piret Aidulo graduated cum laude from the Tallinn Conservatory as a music teacher/choir conductor, and four years later as an organist. In 1998, she also earned a Master's degree from the Estonian Academy of Music as an organist, under the supervising professor Hugo Lepnurm.

As well as performing solo, Piret Aidulo actively takes part in different chamber music ensembles and has cooperated with some of Estonia's best vocal and instrumental soloists, as well as choirs including: the Estonian National Male Choir (RAM), the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and many others. She often performs with different orchestras such as: the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (ERSO), the Estonian National Opera Symphony Orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Pärnu City Orchestra. She has been invited to play with the Latvian Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Novaya Opera Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Ms Aidulo has frequently taken part in the Organ Festivals of Tallinn, Pärnu and Jalta, as well as the Visby Organ Week and has participated in many recording projects. She has taught the organ, the history of organ music and courses on church music in different teaching facilities (including the Church Music Department at the Institute of Theology (UI KMO) and EMTA) and has been the Chairperson for the Board of the EELC Church Music Association (1996-2010). Presently, she is the Chairperson for the Board of the EELC Synod and Song Festival Foundation. Piret Aidulo has repeatedly been the General Manager of Church Song Festivals. She is also one of the founders of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians (EIL).
Since the year 1989, Ms Aidulo has worked at Charles' Church in Tallinn, which hosts the biggest organ in Estonia (Walcker/1923), and since 1991 she has been the Head Organist and the Music Director. She is the Head Conductor of the Charles' Church Concert Choir and the Chamber Choir Canorus. Since March 2013, she has also been a part-time organist at St Mary's Cathedral (Tallinna Toomkirik).
Recently, her most exciting projects have been annual concerts with the Moscow Early Music Ensemble ‘Da camera e da chiesa’; a solo concert in Istanbul performing Bach and Pärt; participating in the grand project of Adam's Passion, performing at the Tallinn International Organ Festival and performing at the Spring Organ Series festival (2016) in Athens, in collaboration with the ‘Bosphorus’ Wind Quintet from Turkey.


Since 2000, Andrus Kallastu has been working as a freelance composer and conductor. He is known as an active concert organizer, the artistic director and producer of various projects, as well as the founder and leader of several festivals.

During the years 1988–1994 and 1998–1999, Andrus Kallastu was the artistic director of Pärnu Contemporary Music Days and since 2003, he has been the main organizer of the festival.
Since 1993, he has been the manager of Pärnu Opera and since 2007 leading the conceptual music theatre ensemble Repoo Ensemble.
Andrus Kallastu is one of the founders of Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society, in the years 1992–1994, he was the chairman of the society, since 2003, the member of the board.
On his leadership, the Estonian music forum EMF Helsinki has been held since 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. The aim of this forum is to offer Finnish music community the opportunity to become more thoroughly acquainted with Estonian music and to promote cooperation between Estonian and Finnish musicians.
In 2000, Andrus Kallastu and Finnish organist Vivika Oksanen founded an international working group Church Composition Group, uniting professional artists of various areas. With regard to the composer’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Kallastu Festival was initiated in 2007.

Andrus Kallastu started his musical studies on piano with Maimu Parts in Pärnu Music School. In 1985–1990 he studied choral conducting with Prof. Olev Oja and composition with Prof. Eino Tamberg at the Tallinn State Conservatoire.
In 1991–1999, he continued studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with conducting (Prof. Jorma Panula, Ilya Musin and Eri Klas), composition (Prof. Paavo Heininen, Olli Kortekangas and Erkki Jokinen), singing (Matti Pelo) and music theory (Profs. Tapani Länsiö, Hannu Apajalahti, Marcus Castrén, Lauri Suurpää).
In 1999, he acquired a Master’s degree in conducting at the Sibelius Academy and in the beginning of the 2000s, he studied musicology at the University of Helsinki.
In frame of his wide range of activities, Andrus Kallastu has also been, for example, a conductor of symphony orchestra of the Tallinn Georg Ots Music School (1990–1991), a freelance singer of the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir (1997–2004) and Aix-en-Provence opera festival (2004). At the end of the 1980s, he was a member of experimental music group Grotest. In 1990, he was the editor and publisher of the Tallinn Conservatoire publication Scripta Musicalia and up to now he has been working for the same publication as a collaborator and adviser. His texts and translations have been published in Scripta Musicalia and the Teater. Muusika. Kino magazine. He has also been actively contributing to web encyclopedia Wikipedia.

In music of Andrus Kallastu, two periods of style can be noticed. Most of his works, written at the time of conservatoire (1985–1990), bear influences of modality and express the spirit of neoclassicism that at the time was characteristic to a large part of Estonian music. In decisive year of 1990, besides several significant events in Estonian society, as well as in his personal life, also a remarkable change in style of Kallastu’s music started to emerge. In this decade he was intensively studying music by Arnold Schönberg and the Second Viennese School composers. Additionally, he acquired strong influences while studying in Helsinki, Finland. The first works of new spirit were composed in late 1990s. These works are characterized by serial texture, sound-field technique, groping the boundaries of musical sound and noise. Many of his works speak of intention to interconnect music and various types of arts and interest of performance art.

In addition to above mentioned festivals, Andrus Kallastu’s music has been performed at the Estonian Music Days Festival, Pärnu David Oistrakh Festival, the Young Composers Festival in Tartu, the Haapsalu String Music Festival [Viiulimängud], Glasperlenspiel. In many occasions his works has been played in Finland and in 2005, his multimedial composition Atemloswas premiered in Paris.

His music has been performed by organists Toomas Trass, Vivika Oksanen and Markku Mäkinen, cellist Bartosz Koziak, and cellist and singer Heikki Kulo, by pianists Ville Matvejeff and Maimu Parts, baritones Jorma Falck, Jürgen Michael Keitel and Timo Lipponen, viola da gamba player Mika Suihkonen, violinists Mati Uffert and Mikk Murdvee, by mezzo sopranos Susanna Tollet and Leili Tammel, sopranos Anna Heiskanen and Kai Kallastu, flutists Monika Mattiesen and Leonora Palu. Kallastu’s works has been also in the repertoire of Repoo Ensemble, Pärnu City Orchestra, Mixed Choir of Estonian Radio, Estonian National Male Choir and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.

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