Ensemble for New Music Tallinn in Kanuti Gildi Saal
19:30

Composer in residence: Hugo Morales Murguia

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Hugo Morales Murguia

ENMT is:
Madis Jürgens
Paul-Gunnar Loorand
Talvi Hunt
Arash Yazdani
Karl Erik Laas

Estonian Music Days 2023

The Last Words is made of contrasts and contradictions; of strong voices on opposite sides. Pieces in this program are almost like manifestos, by composers who believe in different voices but believe them whole-heartedly and passionately. Some soft, some harsh, some gentle, some tough. The World premiere of pieces by Age Veeroos and Israeli/Swedish Dror Feiler and Arash Yazdani, are combined by the Tallinn premiere of Toivo Tulev and Sander Saarmets. Estonian celebrated soprano Kädy Plaas will accompany ENMT in the performance of Toivo Tulev’s piece on the last 6 words that were uttered by Henry David Thoreau before his death. The last words were “Now comes good sailing, moose, Indian”.

Toivo Tulev – Six Last Words of Henry David Thoreau for soprano and 6 instruments (2016)
Sander Saarmets – and the sky turned yellow (2022, Estonian premiere)
Arash Yazdani – Stromateis: Lessness (2017, premiere)
Age Veeroos – Outlines of the Night (2023, premiere)
Dror Feiler – Excarnation (2023, premiere)

Karolina Leedo (flutes)
Chiara Percivati (clarinets)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee (violin)
Peeter Margus (violin)
Talvi Nurgamaa (viola)
Paul-Gunnar Loorand (cello)
Madis Jürgens (double bass)
Arash Yazdani (conductor)

Kädy Plaas (soprano)

Estonian Music Days 2023

ENMT show at Tallinn Music Week 2023 Von Krahl Theatre

The performance which was praised as such:
“With all of the unexpected (here’s that word again) things that the Tallinn Music Week offered this year, the performance of the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT) might have been on top of everything in this aspect.

Not being sure what instruments they played – though being sure it would be great to hear them again – it was best to ask ENMT about it, so here’s the full programme linked to their earlier performances:
– Jeff A. Brown – motion harmony #6 (for 4 pendulums)
– Hugo Morales Murgia – Topspin Plasma (bug zappers and cymbals)
– Arash Yazdani – Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes (for 4 otamatones).

Otamatones were the best…”

Works by:
Fabian Blum (World Premiere)
Albert Breier (WP)
Lauri Jõeleht (German Premiere)
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (GP)
Ülo Krigul (GP)
Henry Mex (WP)
Andreas Staffel (WP)

Karolina Leedo (flutes)
Helena Tuuling (clarinets)
Toomas Vana (trombone)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee (violin)
Mairit Mitt-Bronikowska (viola)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn & defunensemble

ENMT to play in one of Baltic’s most reputable summer festivals for pop and alternative music!

The open air performance will be in the Intsikurmu forest in Põlva, south of Estonia.

Once again e will join forces with our Finnish brethren of defunensemble in another set of Enno Poppe’s breath taking masterpiece for 9 synthesizers. This time in an open-air summer festival!

Enno Poppe – RUNDFUNK for 9 synthesizers

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn & defunensemble

ENMT to play in one of Finland’s most reputable and oldest festivals.

The Finnish premiere of Enno Poppe’s Rundfunk is to take place in EMMA Museum of Modern Art

Once again e will join forces with our Finnish brethren of defunensemble in another set of Enno Poppe’s breath taking masterpiece for 9 synthesizers. This time in an open-air summer festival!

Enno Poppe – RUNDFUNK for 9 synthesizers

Sound Plasma is happening for the 7th consecutive year, and we can’t help but feel some pride for it!

As always Sound Plasma takes place in in Berlin and Tallinn with entirely different programs. Sound Plasma Tallinn takes place 28-30 of September. On final day of estival ENMT will realize the premiere of a chamber opera by Czech composer/pianist/librettist Marek Keprt. And this time we invite you all to end the Tallinn events with a special celebration of music and comradery in our marathon concert/afterparty.

In Berlin we will have 2 performances, a presentation ceremony of ENMT’s double CD album in collaboration with KAIROS label; in addition to the guest ensembles: Ensemble Vortex, Ensemble du Bout du Monde and V4R1.

28 September // 19:00 
House of the Blackheads, address Pikk 26

EKMELES VOCAL ENSEMBLE

Program:
James Weeks – Primo Libro (2017)
Erin Gee – Mouthpiece 36 (2022)
Taylor Brook – Motorman Sextet (2013) 
Arash Yazdani – In My Boundless Turmoil (2023)

EKMELES vocal ensemble:
Charlotte Mundy, soprano
Elisa Sutherland, mezzo sporano
Timothy Parsons, countertenor
Tomás Cruz, tenor
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
Steven Hrycelak, bass

Sound Plasma is happening for the 7th consecutive year, and we can’t help but feel some pride for it!

As always Sound Plasma takes place in in Berlin and Tallinn with entirely different programs. Sound Plasma Tallinn takes place 28-30 of September. On final day of estival ENMT will realize the premiere of a chamber opera by Czech composer/pianist/librettist Marek Keprt. And this time we invite you all to end the Tallinn events with a special celebration of music and comradery in our marathon concert/afterparty.

In Berlin we will have 2 performances, a presentation ceremony of ENMT’s double CD album in collaboration with KAIROS label; in addition to the guest ensembles: Ensemble Vortex, Ensemble du Bout du Monde and V4R

29 September // 19:00 
House of the Blackheads, address Pikk 26

MONDRIAN ENSEMBLE

Program:
Edu Haubensak – String Trio II (1996)
Juliana Hodkinson – “Jounce” (2016)
Martin Jaggi – “Kôrd 1” (2017)
Giacinto Scelsi – String Trio (1958)
Dieter Ammann – “Piece” (1994/98)
Christian Winther-Christensen – String Trio (2008/09)

MONDRIAN ENSEMBLE:
Mirka Šćepanović, violin (guest musician)
Petra Ackermann, viola
Karolina Öhman, cello

Sound Plasma is happening for the 7th consecutive year, and we can’t help but feel some pride for it!

As always Sound Plasma takes place in in Berlin and Tallinn with entirely different programs. Sound Plasma Tallinn takes place 28-30 of September. On final day of estival ENMT will realize the premiere of a chamber opera by Czech composer/pianist/librettist Marek Keprt. And this time we invite you all to end the Tallinn events with a special celebration of music and comradery in our marathon concert/afterparty.

In Berlin we will have 2 performances, a presentation ceremony of ENMT’s double CD album in collaboration with KAIROS label; in addition to the guest ensembles: Ensemble Vortex, Ensemble du Bout du Monde and V4R1.

30 September // 20:00 
Theatrum hall, address Vene 14

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN

Program:
Marek Keprt chamber opera “HIBIKI” concert performance

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN:
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee, violin
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand, cello
Talvi Hunt, piano
Arash Yazdani, conductor

Soloists: 
Laura Štoma (soprano)
Mariliis Lahesalu (soprano)

ENMT returns to Olomouc with an intense and heavy program that includes a full opera!

World premiere of a new piece by Ivo Medek, Czech premiere of a piece by Arash Yazdani and the Hibiki chamber opera by Marek Keprt will be performed.

Sunday, October 29th, 19:00

Ivo Medek – Blurry Silhouette
Arash Yazdani – Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes
MAREK KEPRT (1974, CR): Hibiki, or Don’t Curl the Hare in the Poke (2019-2023) – Czech premiere of the new version

Laura Štoma – soprano
Mariliis Lahesalu – soprano
Marek Keprt – narrator

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLIN (Estonia)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee – violin
Talvi Nurgamaa – viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand – cello
Talvi Hunt – piano
Arash Yazdani – conductor 

Hana Haha – soprano/flute (guest performer)
Aneta Podracká Bendová – soprano (guest performer)

ENMT gives its debut concert in Brno, Czech Republic. In the framework of the 26th edition of festival New Music Encounters Plus. World premiere of a new piece by Ivo Medek, Czech premiere of a piece by Arash Yazdani and the Hibiki chamber opera by Marek Keprt will be performed.

Monday, October 30th, 19:00

Ivo Medek – Blurry Silhouette
Arash Yazdani – Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes
MAREK KEPRT (1974, CR): Hibiki, or Don’t Curl the Hare in the Poke (2019-2023) – Czech premiere of the new version

Laura Štoma – soprano
Mariliis Lahesalu – soprano
Marek Keprt – narrator

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLIN (Estonia)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee – violin
Talvi Nurgamaa – viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand – cello
Talvi Hunt – piano
Arash Yazdani – conductor 

Hana Haha – soprano/flute (guest performer)
Aneta Podracká Bendová – soprano (guest performer)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn in collaboration with Intersonanzen festival

The intersonanzen festival association is the official association of new music composers and a centre for contemporary music in Brandenburg, supporting and initiating many music events in the state. Founded in 1990, it has been one of the most important pioneers of contemporary music in Brandenburg, bringing together composers, musicologists, musicians and music teachers from Potsdam, the Frankfurt/Oder and Cottbus regions.

Through the “intersonanzen” festival, the members of the association offer composers the opportunity to write new compositions and collaborate with various international ensembles. The programme of the festival is a collaboration between the members of the composers’ association and the guest ensembles.

ENMT performed at the festival on 20.05.2023 in Potsdam, Germany and now the ensemble is presenting those pieces for Tallinn’s audience.

ADDRESS: Väike saal, Suurgildi Hoone (Estonian History Museum) address Pikk 17

Program:
Andreas Staffel – Shadows of a forgotten Landscape (2023)
Albert Breier – Sérénade aux yeux mi-clos (2022)
Ülo Krigul – suite-case II for solo trombone (2007/09
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes – Lovesong (2010)
Fabian Blum – Dat Burlala 2 (2023)
Lauri Jõeleht – Chant Harmonique (2014/2020)
Henry Mex – D#Tanz (2023)

FREE ENTRANCE!

Let’s celebrate end of a (tough) year with end of an era; as Sveta bar is coming to an end!

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn + Sander Saarmets + DJ Dizlerim Küpsis

19:30 Sander Saarmets: modular synth

21:00 Ensemble for New Music Tallinn
Scrapyard 3.5: for Klaus Schulze

22:15 Dizlerim Küpsis live DJ set

ENMT will present its brand new album; together with works by:
Hugo Morales Murguia
Arash Yazdani
Bernhard Lang

ENMT is:
Madis Jürgens
Paul-Gunnar Loorand
Kärt Ruubel
Arash Yazdani

Tuesday December 19, 19:30-24:00

Sveta bar Telliskivi

ENMT is thrilled to host the Italian virtuoso SYNTAX Ensemble from Milano.

The performance is divided by a short intermission and each group performs their own specialized repertoire

Syntax Ensemble program:
Maurilio Cacciatore – Rebus II (EP)
Ülo Krigul – Earth… to Become Earth Again
Tõnu Kõrvits – “Hope”
Ivan Fedele – Maja
Toivo Tulev – Fana (WP)

ENMT Program:
Liisa Hõbepappel – The Jangling Lightness of Solace (EP)
Märt-Matis Lill – Escape (EP)
Pasquale Corrado – Ozone (EP)

EP Estonian Premiere
WP World Premiere

Syntax Ensemble:
Maruta Staravoitava (flutes)
Marco Ignoti (clarinets)
Francesco D’Orazio (violin)
Fernando Caida Greco (cello)
Anna D’Errico (piano)
Dario Savron (percussion)
Maurilio Cacciatore (electronics)
Valentina Coladonato (soprano)
Pasquale Corrado (conductor)

ENMT:
Karolina Leedo (flutes)
Talvi Hunt (piano)
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee (violin)
Talvi Nurgamaa (viola)
Paul-Gunnar Loorand (cello)
Arash Yazdani (conductor)

May 10 – Mustpeade maja

Sound Plasma is happening for the 8th consecutive year, and we can’t help but feel some pride for it!

As always Sound Plasma takes place in in Berlin and Tallinn with entirely different programs. Sound Plasma Tallinn takes place 13-14 of November. featuring Italian Duo Dubois, Zeno Baldi, the student ensemble from EMTA and Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

In Berlin we will have 2 performances on 21st of November, a with the legendary violist Vincent Royer as well as Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

DETAILED PROGRAM

Performers:

Duo Dubois + Zeno Baldi

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Program:

• Matteo Gualandi – Still Love Songs (2018)
• Carlo Elia Praderio – Diatomee (2024) – world premiere
• Zeno Baldi – TRI (2023)

Alberto Cavallaro, saxophone
Federico Tramontana, percussion
Zeno Baldi, electronics

ENSENBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN + EMTA students

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Program:

Live Electronic Acousmatic composition for four speakers

• Eugenio cecchini “Northern Soliloquy” (2023)
• Elia dell’Orco “TV” (2024)
• Gabriele Teti  “rêverie” (2024)
• Juste Janulyte Psalms for viola d’amore and pre-recordings (2008/2022)
• Toru Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II “In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen” (1992)
• Kristjan Kannukene Sound installation improvisation
• Pinar Özaslan Ritual for solo viola (2024)
• Salvatore Sciarrino La Malinconia for violin and viola (1980)
• Kaija Saariaho Tocar (2010)
• Matej Sloboda No. 6 „Hoquetus“ (2021)
• Alireza Farajianhamedani Garbled Murmur, as delirium at the threshold of death (2024)

Helis Karbo, flute
Mirjam Avango, clarinet
Jordi López Jové, piano
Matleena Lauha, piano
Nuría Diaz Fuentes, violin
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee, violin
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola
Kristjan Kannukene, viola
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola d’amore
Juhan Laasik, cello
Arash Yazdani, double bass
Patrik Kako, conductor

21. NOVEMBER 2024 19:00

VINCENT ROYER // viola 

Startbahn-Genezarethkirche
address Herrfurthplatz 14, 12049 Berlin, Neukölln

Program:
Giacinto Scelsi – Manto I, II und III (1957)
Vincent Royer – Improvisation
Horatiu Radulescu – Intimate Rituals XI op. 63 for viola and soundicons (1985)

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN

21. NOVEMBER 2024 20:00

Startbahn-Genezarethkirche
address Herrfurthplatz 14, 12049 Berlin, Neukölln

Program:
Hanan Hadžajlić – Ghetto 2024: صمود«
Elo Masing – the dance above the abyss« (2024), premiere
Fausto Romitelli – La sabbia del tempo« (1991)
Sonja Mutić – Resound II« (2021)
Arash Yazdani – Dimension II, Destruction« (2014)

ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee, violin
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand, cello
Karolina Leedo, flutes
Mirjam Avango, clarinets
Talvi Hunt, piano
Arash Yazdani, conductor

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is launching a new Open Space series of events. As part of this series, we are opening our doors to contemporary music enthusiasts/students and professionals so that they can perform their own works or repertoire with our musicians in a relaxed atmosphere during regular concerts.
The aim of the series is to foster the growth of a more diverse contemporary music community and increase community cohesion.

Concert is taking place on 17th May at 19:00 in Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music.

Performers:
Tallinna Uue Muusika Ansambel
Kristjan Kannukene
Katariin Raska ja Villem Jahu
Mert Salkim

Supporters: Muusikalinn Tallinn, Eesti Kultuurkapital 

FREE entrance!

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,

Since its establishment in 2012, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format. With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genera and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music,