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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.
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In October , Kaljuste was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia.[1] The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with youth protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to the banning of a public performance of the punk rock band Propeller.[1]
After Estonia won independence in , many of the barriers to international performing and recording were lifted, and Kaljuste became well known for his recordings on ECM Records of the works of Estonian composers such as Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Heino Eller, and Arvo Pärt.
In , he formed the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; he was also principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir between and , as well as of the Netherlands Chamber Choir (–).
Aside from Estonian composers, Kaljuste has also recorded works of Beethoven, Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Sergei Taneyev, Vivaldi, and others.
In , Kaljuste was listed by the Estonian World as the second most outstanding Estonian in that year, right behind Arvo Pärt.[2] Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category for his work on composer Arvo Pärt’s album “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
On 10 May Tõnu Kaljuste was presented with the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in the category of Contemporary Music at a gala event in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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In , he married actress Ülle Kaljuste (née Side); the couple later divorced.[3]
Discography
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