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Tõnu Kaljuste
Estonian conductor (born )
Tõnu Kaljuste (born August 28, ) is an Estonianconductor.
Born in Tallinn, Kaljuste is the son of Heino Kaljuste (–), an Estonian choral conductor, and Lia Kaljuste, a radio journalist. Tõnu sang in his father's choirs as a child and graduated from the Tallinn Music High School (Tallinna Muusikakeskkool) in He completed a graduate degree at the Tallinn Conservatory in , studying with Jüri Variste and Roman Matsov, and continued as a postgraduate at the Leningrad Conservatory until
Kaljuste took his father's role as leader of the Ellerhein Chamber choir in , an ensemble that performed choral works ranging from Renaissance music to contemporary avant-garde music. He was professor of choral conducting at the Tallinn Conservatory from to and won the Best Conductor prize at the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition. With financial support from the Estonian government, Kaljuste turned the Ellerhein Chamber Choir into a full-time ensemble and renamed it the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in Kaljuste also conducted with the Estonian National Opera between and
In October , Kaljuste was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian l
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Tõnu Kaljuste
Tõnu Kaljuste, born in Tallinn (Estonia) in , is the son of Heino Kaljuste, who was a leading Estonian choral conductor and teacher. Tõnu Kaljuste specialised early in choral conducting and studied at both Tallinn and Leningrad Conservatories. In , he embarked on a full-time professional career after his Ellerhein Chamber Choir won first prize in the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition, bringing state funding for the choir, which was renamed the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
Kaljuste has said of his work with the choir that “we grew together with and through our repertoire and from working in close association with many composers. It has been very important to our work that we have been able to cooperate with living composers.” Many of those collaborations have been recorded in ECM’s New Series, starting in with Forgotten Peoples by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis. The following year saw the release of Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum, Kaljuste’s first recording also to feature the newly founded Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. Kaljuste has rightly acquired a reputation as one of Pärt’s closest and most faithful interpreters, with a list of recordings (several world premieres among them) that includes Litany (), Kanon Pokajanen (the magnum opus of t