Veljo Tormis 95 | 110 helletust

Series

20.09.2025 at 7 pm ERM, Tartu

21.09.2025 at 6 pm EMTA, Tallinn

How does sound Curse Upon the Iron from a choir with 110 singers?

Five chamber choirs from Tartu come together to celebrate the anniversary of Veljo Tormis. We have been practising since the start of summer to ensure that from the joining of our many-many octets to a 110-head choir would sound a powerful piano, strongly sensed tempo, nuanced wording as much as possible. 

Veljo Tormis is one of the few Estonian composers,if not the only one, who has written so much with great diversity and on different levels of choir music that almost all Estonian choirs have sung his music at least once, if not multiple times.

During these concerts, we sing all the pieces together and from the original scores. We donate all the income that survives the cost to the Virtual Centre of Veljo Tormis. As a result of our united work, we also plan to put together the Tormis statistics about the Tartu choirs for the following year. 

We are very excited to see you at our concerts!

ON STAGE

E STuudio Chamber Choir

Chamber Choir Helü

Chamber Choir Kolm Lindu

Chamber Choir of the University of Tartu

Vocal Chamber Ensemble Vox pUNT

Pirjo Jonas, Soprano (Theatre Vanemuine)

Jaan Kapp, concert master

CONDUCTORS

Karita Käesel

Kärolin Tuisk

Külli Lokko

Küllike Joosing

Patrik Sebastian Unt

Triin Koch

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

Kärolin Tuisk and Küllike Joosing

PROGRAMME

Helletused (Childhood Memory)

Kaks laulu Ernst Enno sõnadele (Two Songs to Words by Ernst Enno)

Meelespea (Forget-me-not)

Nostalgia

Nukrad viivud (Melancholy Moments)

Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron)

Sügismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): I, II, V, VII