{"id":14162,"date":"2019-10-06T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tartupoistekoor.ee\/?page_id=14162"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:28:27","slug":"about-the-choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tartupoistekoor.ee\/en\/the-choir\/about-the-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"About the choir"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Music has an amazing ability to talk to everyone, no matter what language we speak. Music draws pictures and tells stories, enlivens the imagination and creates a mood. With its beauty, it can bring tears to your eyes and captivate with exciting moves more than any action movie.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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With this beautiful art form, specifically choir music, Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir has been doing it for 59 years, proudly wearing the title of being one of the oldest boys\u2019 choirs in Estonia. Taking an example from boys\u2019 school choirs in England that have been active for 80 years, Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir embraces childish sincerity, youthful charm, musical maturity and virtuosity.<\/p>\n

The choir performs classical music, romantic pieces, rythmic contemporary music and also pop and gospel music, meanwhile highly valuing Estonian composers.<\/p>\n

This season, the collaboration between Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir will continue, leading singers on the path of professional choir culture with master courses, open lessons, meetings and going to concerts. Long-term collaboration with theatre Vanemuine will also be continuing with the choir boys participating in Bizet\u2019s opera \u201cCarmen\u201d. For the first time ever, we will be on the same stage with artists nublu and N\u00d5EP in November 2019 and with Heigo Rosin and his students from H. Elleri music school in May 2020.As per tradition, the choir will be taking part in a boys\u2019 choir contest held at Tartu in April 2020. It will be held in Tubin\u2019s hall and organized by the Estonian Mens\u2019 Song Association. In 2019 Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir has had positive attention:<\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>Undel Kokk<\/strong> \u2013 Bronze footprints on the Tartu Teerajajate Alley<\/span>
<\/span>\u2013 Annelii Traks<\/strong> \u2013 Laureate of the Tartu Cultural Endowment scholarship of Tartu Singing and Dancing Festival
                            – Laureate of the Uno J\u00e4rvela scholarship of the Estonian National Culture Foundation
\u2013 Sander Tamm<\/strong> \u2013 Laureate of the teacher scholarship of Tartu Education Department
\u2013 Katrin Nuume<\/strong> \u2013 Laureate of the teacher scholarship of Tartu Education Department
\u2013 Martin K\u00e4spri<\/strong> \u2013 Laureate of the Eino Tamberg scholarship of the Estonian National Culture Foundation
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By Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir it is possible to be a part of a diverse program. Estonian choir classics show emotion, power and fragility to every member in the crowd. Songs from composers as Veljo Tormis, P\u00e4rt Uusberg, Cyrillus Kreek, T\u00f5nu K\u00f5rvits and Arvo P\u00e4rt will paint pictures of nature, captivating and alluring. There is something distinctively Estonian about it:<\/p>\n

Reflection of northern nature: the sadness of cloudy weather, little sunlight peeking through the branches of a bare tree, using folk melodies directly or indirectly. In a northern country, where population is sparse, untouched nature is in abundance and ties between nature and the people are strong, the bond between music and nature is clearly perceptible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our program includes songs, that have been sung by 20 000 people through times, that fill concert halls, \u2026 award ceremonies and receptions but gives goosebumps during any gathering. Songs like \u201cMu isamaa on minu arm\u201d, \u201c Ta lendab mesipuu poole\u201d, \u201c\u00dcksi pole keegi\u201d, \u201cPalve\u201d, \u201cLaul P\u00f5hjamaast\u201d, \u201cEi saa mitte vaiki olla\u201d combined with Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir singers\u2019 life and music cognition greet the crowd with contrast, beauty and pain.<\/p>\n

Who doesn\u2019t know legendary children\u2019s songs, like \u201cO on \u00fcmmargune, K on kandiline\u201d, \u201cMe pole enam v\u00e4ikesed\u201d, \u201cJorupill Jonn\u201d, \u201cTige Tikker\u201d. These and many more songs affect adults and children of all age groups. These melodies are by such authors as Raimond L\u00e4tte, Priit Pajusaar, Anne Ermast, Piret-Rips Laul, Kadri Hunt, Olav Ehala. Songs by these composers are characterized by musical humour and surprising harmonies.<\/p>\n

Over 10 years of collaboration with theatre Vanemuine has added operas \u201cTosca\u201d, \u201cBoheem\u201d, \u201cWerther\u201d, \u201cCarmen\u201d, musicals \u201cGypsy\u201d, \u201cHelisev Muusika\u201d, \u201cEvita\u201d, \u201cMotetid\u201d, \u201cKaval-Ants ja Vanapagan\u201d and \u201cMary Poppins\u201d to the Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir  portfolio. Pieces like \u201cI dreamed a dream\u201d from Evita, \u201cT\u00f5useb p\u00e4ike, loojub p\u00e4ike\u201d from Fiddler on the Roof, \u201cLastelaul\u201d from Lotte, \u201cGreased lightning\u201d from Grease invite the audience on a trip to visit the history of stage music.<\/p>\n

SInce the addition of sound in films, music has developed to be a vital part in them. In the film industry, every small situation or big emotion is emphasized by a sound effect or melody, whether it\u2019s the hero or the villain. The same way operas and operettas use music to change the mood and atmosphere, films use music to show anxiety, fear, nobility, romance or love. A program made up with songs that do exactly this, is what we want to give to the audience on our 2019\/2020 season concerts. There will be songs from Estonian films, but also songs from the film classics. We will be visited by Anna and Elsa from Frozen, Shrek, Lion King, Nukitsamees and P\u00e4tu.<\/p>\n

Adding to the previous and Christmas songs, we like Eric Clapton\u2019s, Leonard Cohen\u2019s, Hans Zimmer\u2019s, Josh Groban\u2019s, Michael Jackson\u2019s and many more artists and composers scores, including Estonian bands and artists such as Traffic, Dag\u00f6, Curly Strings, Daniel Levi, Greip and Ruja.<\/p>\n

Our professional sound and performances, that have been polished down to the finest detail, have opened many conferences and decorated different events. Tartu Boys\u2019 Choir, wearer of Rahvakollektiiv title in 1974, was a highly awaited guest on most stages. Success has taken the choir to Bulgaria, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and many more European countries. During the 2019\/2020 season, the choir is getting ready for a trip to Georgia, where they will participate in the X Tbilisi International choir festival.<\/p>\n

In the near future, the choir is awaited on stage in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and China.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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