ENMT is presenting the upcoming project in collaboration with renown DJ Rhythm Doctor.

In a somewhat unique collaboration with Chris Rhythm Doctor, we are presenting a concert/party event with several Estonian premiers. The program features world premier of a new piece by Arash Yazdani, Estonian premiers of marvelous “In a large open space…” by late American composer James Tenney and “motion harmony #3″ by young American composer Jeff A. Brown. As well as curious and unusual work of Michael Maierhof “Shopping 4″ for prepared balloons.The ensemble then will be joined by DJ on ambient based improvisation. The final stage will host Rhythm Doctor’s DJ compositions based on new music pieces.

Come grab a beer and enjoy this unique event!

On 25th of September ENMT perform the Estonian premier of “Nach-Ruf…ent-gleitend…” by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

The other piece of the program will be a world premier of a new version of Motion Harmony by Jeff Arlo Brown.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn ENMT
Tallinna Uue Muusika Ansambel TUMA

Nach-Ruf…ent-gleitend… (Estonian Premier)
Georg Friedrich Haas

Motion Harmony (Premiere of new version)
Jeff A. Brown

Conductor/Dirigent: Arash Yazdani

With Pieces from Estonia and Russia, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT)  will be performed the program that includes works of composers from two neighboring countries with much common history, yet with a highly variable, personal and individual sounding. What is sound? How the different composers define, treat or understand it? And how all these questions alongside many other concerns will affect the outcome of music and thus the audience? ENMT is committed on bringing the fresh and less experienced music to a wider audience, with emphasizing the aspects of new music that have not become contaminated by mainstream or institutionalization. The highlight of the program are world premiere of newly written pieces by Estonian composer Märt-Matis Lill, Estonian based Iranian composer Arash Yazdani and young Russian composer Artur Zobnin. These pieces are commissioned by ENMT for this project.

Moreover on the program will be performed pieces of well-known Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis, Russian composerAlexander Radvilovich and the young emerging composer Jeff Brown . All the pieces in this program have a common and clear motif on sound, however being treated differently.

The concert takes place on Wednesday 3rd of December, at Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg and is organized by the Saint-Petersburg Contemporary Music Center .

Артур Зобнин. Мой город звучит/Artur Zobnin. My city sounds

Our performance is on 25th of April at Fundació Antoni Tàpies at 18:00!

SEE YOU AT MIXTUR 2015: Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

The program is:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Arash Yazdani
Iannis Xenakis
Jeffrey Brown

http://mixturbcn.com/
http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/spip.php?rubrique65

ENMT presents the SANTUR project, to be premiered during Fresh Music Festival, AutumnFest of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Composers of the contemporary classical music are asked to write new pieces for ensemble and the Persian instrument of Santur.

Santur soloist Pooyan Ataei will join the ensemble from Iran, to be at the center of the program.

The special condition of Santur such as numerous strings and unusual non- western tuning gives a rare opportunity to the composers to discover new worlds beyond the possibilities of conventional ensemble instruments. Solving the challenges of combining these different worlds from where the groups of instruments belong, gives an extra tension and material for the pieces.

The program is:
Helena Tulve (Estonia)   “Every spark is numbered I”
Matthias S. Krüger (Germany) “FlussII”
Märt-Matis Lill (Estonia) “You will become like me”
Magnus Bunnskog (Sweden) “Nur”
Mehdi Hosseini (Russia/Iran) “Innertia II”
Ryan Beppel (United States) “Occupational Hazard”
Anna Romashkova (Russia) “Suspense 3”

The concerts take place on:
26th September 18:00 Chamber hall of the Estonian Academy of Music , Tallinn
29th September 17:00 Forumbox gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2nd October 15:00 Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

The concerts are preceded by presentation and talks featuring Pooyan Ataei with his instrument, alongside composers Helena Tulve, Magnus Bunnskog, Matthias S. Krüger and Mehdi Hosseini.

Moderator: Arash Yazdani

Lectures take place on:
25th September 11:00-13:00, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
29th September 13:00-15:00, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

ENMT presents the SANTUR project, to be premiered during Fresh Music Festival / AutumnFest of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Composers of the contemporary classical music are asked to write new pieces for ensemble and the Persian instrument of Santur.

Santur soloist Pooyan Ataei will join the ensemble from Iran, to be at the center of the program.

The special condition of Santur such as numerous strings and unusual non- western tuning gives a rare opportunity to the composers to discover new worlds beyond the possibilities of conventional ensemble instruments. Solving the challenges of combining these different worlds from where the groups of instruments belong, gives an extra tension and material for the pieces.

The program is:
Helena Tulve (Estonia)   “Every spark is numbered I”
Matthias S. Krüger (Germany) “FlussII”
Märt-Matis Lill (Estonia) “You will become like me”
Magnus Bunnskog (Sweden) “Nur”
Mehdi Hosseini (Russia/Iran) “Innertia II”
Ryan Beppel (United States) “Occupational Hazard”
Anna Romashkova (Russia) “Suspense 3”

The concerts take place on:
26th September 18:00 Chamber hall of the Estonian Academy of Music , Tallinn
29th September 17:00 Forumbox gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2nd October 15:00 Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

The concerts are preceded by presentation and talks featuring Pooyan Ataei with his instrument, alongside composers Helena Tulve, Magnus Bunnskog, Matthias S. Krüger and Mehdi Hosseini.

Moderator: Arash Yazdani

Lectures take place on:
25th September 11:00-13:00, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
29th September 13:00-15:00, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

ENMT presents the SANTUR project, to be premiered during Fresh Music Festival / AutumnFest of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Composers of the contemporary classical music are asked to write new pieces for ensemble and the Persian instrument of Santur.

Santur soloist Pooyan Ataei will join the ensemble from Iran, to be at the center of the program.

The special condition of Santur such as numerous strings and unusual non- western tuning gives a rare opportunity to the composers to discover new worlds beyond the possibilities of conventional ensemble instruments. Solving the challenges of combining these different worlds from where the groups of instruments belong, gives an extra tension and material for the pieces.

The program is:
Helena Tulve (Estonia)   “Every spark is numbered I”
Matthias S. Krüger (Germany) “FlussII”
Märt-Matis Lill (Estonia) “You will become like me”
Magnus Bunnskog (Sweden) “Nur”
Mehdi Hosseini (Russia/Iran) “Innertia II”
Ryan Beppel (United States) “Occupational Hazard”
Anna Romashkova (Russia) “Suspense 3”

The concerts take place on:
26th September 18:00 Chamber hall of the Estonian Academy of Music , Tallinn
29th September 17:00 Forumbox gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2nd October 15:00 Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

The concerts are preceded by presentation and talks featuring Pooyan Ataei with his instrument, alongside composers Helena Tulve, Magnus Bunnskog, Matthias S. Krüger and Mehdi Hosseini.

Moderator: Arash Yazdani

Lectures take place on:
25th September 11:00-13:00, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
29th September 13:00-15:00, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

ENMT will be on tour in Hungary and France early October.

At the heart of the program is an exceptional and unique piece by acclaimed Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, that delves to a very different way of hearing music.

A newly written piece by Ryan Beppel, commissioned by ENMT, a unique piece for clay whistle, prepared violin and cymbal by Anna Romashkova and another exceptional music by young American composer Jeff Brown, for 4 pendulums; are among the other features of the program.

The program is:
Helena Tulve (Estonia)  “Stream”
Georg Friedrich Haas (Austria) “Nach-Ruf…ent-gleitend…”
Jeff. A. Brown (USA) “Motion Harmony#3”
Arash Yazdani (Estonia/Iran) “Demodulation”
Ryan Beppel (USA) “Occupational Hazard”
Anna Romashova (Russia) “Suspense 3”

The concerts take place on:
11th October 18:00 FUGA Architecture Museum, Budapest, Hungary
13th October 18:00 RESONANTA, Cité International Universitait, Paris, France

ENMT will be on tour in Hungary and France early October.

At the heart of the program is an exceptional and unique piece by acclaimed Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, that delves to a very different way of hearing music.

A newly written piece by Ryan Beppel, commissioned by ENMT, a unique piece for clay whistle, prepared violin and cymbal by Anna Romashkova and another exceptional music by young American composer Jeff Brown, for 4 pendulums; are among the other features of the program.

The program is:
Helena Tulve (Estonia)  “Stream”
Georg Friedrich Haas (Austria) “Nach-Ruf…ent-gleitend…”
Jeff. A. Brown (USA) “Motion Harmony#3”
Arash Yazdani (Estonia/Iran) “Demodulation”
Ryan Beppel (USA) “Occupational Hazard”
Anna Romashova (Russia) “Suspense 3”

The concerts take place on:
11th October 18:00 FUGA Architecture Museum, Budapest, Hungary
13th October 18:00 RESONANTA, Cité International Universitait, Paris, France

Silent Movie Night TRAILER

In a collaboration between ENMT,  the Animated Dreams/PÖFF Black Nights film festival of Tallinn and the Inner Sound New Arts Festival of Bucharest, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn present the project Silent Movie Night.

The project contains two performances of works of music and media, at Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn, 19:30 November 20 and 22. The concerts are preceded with a presentation/lecture session at 11:00 on 18th November at the Baltic Film and Media School.

The program is made of pieces of music and media (including animation, video art or short films).

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn commissioned new pieces on already existing media to the composers in addition to commissions of new video and music to a team of composer and artist from U.S, France, Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Romania and Estonia.

Artists include: David O’Reilly, Priit Tender, Rainer Kohlberger, Alexander Schubert, Kiwa Noid, Anda Puscas and Mirona Radu.

Composers are: Alexander Schubert, Brice Catherin, Märt-Matis Lill, Diana Rotaru, Yair Klartag, Ove-Kuth Kadak and Sabina Ulubeanu.

The program is:
Brice Catherin / David O’Rielly “Mountain” (WP)
Alexander Schubert “Hello” (Estonian and Romanian premier)
Märt-Matis Lill / Priit Tender “Bird Flu” (WP)
Yair Klartag / Rainer Kohlberger  “Pros MAthematikous” (WP)
Diana Rotaru / Anda Puscas “Edge” (EP)
Ove-Kuth Kadak / Kiwa Noid “Ripple Underneath” (WP)
Sabina Ulubeanu / Mirona Radu “Ana” (EP)

The concerts take place on:
20th November 19:30 Kanuti Gildi Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
22nd November 19:30 Kanuti Gildi Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
3rd December 19:00 Bucharest, Romania

ENMT is performing a semi-staged production of ATTHIS, an operatic scene for soprano and chamber ensemble (or 8 instruments alone), yet another masterpiece by the Austrian maestro Georg Friedrich Haas.

Austrian animation artist and filmmaker  Rainer Kohlberger is providing the real-time visuals and staging for the performance

Premier to take place on the opening night of the reMusik Festival on 20th of May, in Erarta Contemporary Art Gallery and Meuseum in St. Petersburg

ENMT is giving the Estonian premier of ATTHIS, an operatic scene for soprano and chamber ensemble, yet another masterpiece by the Austrian maestro Georg Friedrich Haas. As well as world premier of “six last words Throeau” by Toivo Tulev.

Soloist: Kädy Plaas

Austrian animation artist and filmmaker  Rainer Kohlberger is providing the real-time visuals and staging for the performance.

ATTHIS (2009) is a 40 minutes long scene for soprano and chamber ensemble a masterpiece by the Austrian maestro Georg Friedrich Haas. The love-poems Sappho sang to other women on the island of Lesbos more than two and a half thousand years ago have become world-famous; although they only survive in fragments, they have never ceased to fascinate composers.

Premier to take place at the newly inaugurated Estonian National Museum in Tartu on 20th of October, as a part of AFEKT festival. Tickets available here. Special tickets including return transport to Tartu, museum visit and meeting with composers here.

On October 19th, a seminar featuring presentations by Georg Friedrich Haas, Toivo Tulev, Rainer Kohlberger and Arash Yazdani takes place at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, proceeding with round table discussion by artists and moderated by conductor Arash Yazdani. Attendance is free to the public.

September 20th 19:00
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

conductor: Arash Yazdani

Ove-Kuth Kadak Opaque (2018) UA
Yair Klartag Pros Mathematikous (2015)
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes Crasis (2016) EA
Horatiu Radulescu Khufu’s serpend V (2003) EA

September 21st 17:00
Vincent Royer (viola)

Horatiu Radulescu Das Andere; Lux Animae; Intimate Rituals

September 22nd 18:00
Ensemble du Bout du Monde

Maria Eugenia Luc Yun
Nadir Vassena 31 Anatomie Notturne
Stratis Minakakis Thalassographia
Nicolas Tzortzis Lumineux
Iannis Xenakis Xas

October 19th 18:30
Rebecca Lane  (flute)
Jonathan Heilbron  (contrabass)

Catherine Lamb Muto Infinitas (2016)

October 19th 20:30
Samuel Ekkehardt Dunscombe (clarinet and electronics)
Horatiu Radulescu The Crucible; Abyssal Falls for Eternal Shepherd
Horatiu Radulescu/Samuel Dunscombe Sketch for Fountains of my Sky

October 20th 18:30
Vincent Royer (viola and viola d’amour)

Giacinto Scelsi Canti del Capricorni I (1962-72)
Vincent Royer Chute et lumière (2018)
Giacinto Scelsi Canti del Capricorni IX (1962-72)
Vincent Royer Akasha V (2018)
Johannes Fritsch Violectra (1971)

October 20th 20:30
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

conductor: Arash Yazdani

Ove-Kuth Kadak Opaque (2018) UA
Yair Klartag Pros Mathematikous (2015) DA
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes Crasis (2016) DA
Arash Yazdani Anamorphism, Hommage á Gustav Mahler (2013) DA
Horatiu Radulescu Khufu’s serpend V (2003) DA

October 21st 18:30
Sigma Project

Georg Friedrich Haas Saxophone Quartet (2014)
Helga Arias Milk spilt on a stone (2017) DA
Wieland Hoban Ariadne I* (2018) UA
Arash Yazdani Stromateis: Emergence (2017) DA
Alberto Posadas Knossos (2016)

October 21st 20:30
Sound Plasma Ensemble in Residence

Rebecca Lane, Samuel Dunscombe, Helena Tuuling, Johhny Chang, Ellen Fallowfield, Jonathan Heilbron, Arash Yazdani

James Tenney Glissade (1989)
Chiyoko Szlavnics For Eva Hesse (with CN)  (2007)
Horatiu Radulescu My D High opus ∞ (1972-3) DA

$#%@& me kitten - trailer

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn gives the performance “Propagation of Uncertainty”.

Program includes of works by Arash Yazdani, on Estonian Music Days festival 2018. The concert ends with a joint performance of ENMT and Ensemble U:.

Concert takes place at House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads (Must Peade Maja) white hall, on Tuesday 17th of April, at 18:00.

During AFEKT festival 2018, ENMT is performing a program of works of audio-visual and multimedia music.

The concert is on Tuesday 30 October, at 19:00 in Kanuti Gildi Saal, situated in Tallinn’s old town.

The program contains a diverse aesthetic of current and relevant contemporary music, all connected by implying works of fixed media. From a gameplay designed by highly acclaimed animation/video artist of Adult Swim channel, David O’Reilly, and algorithmic video/noise art by Berlinale featured Rainer Kohlberger, to the more conceptual medium of Simon Steen-Andersen and Alexander Schubert. Thus the performance emphasizes a blurred distinction between sound, concept and media.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn will participate at the composition academy of reMusik, St. Petersburg International New Music Festival.

Our ensemble will have reading sessions of the student works and have workshop with the academy participants. The selected pieces will be performed in our 2 concerts at the festival.

Within the framework of the 2019 festival, reMusik.org offers a composition course which will be held from May 17th — 26th in St. Petersburg, Russia. This creative composing lab is an exciting opportunity for young and emerging composers from around the world. Twenty-five composers will be selected through a portfolio application process to meet and work with honors composers and internationally-acclaimed ensembles invited to this year’s festival.

Selected composers will participate in the festival’s events, master classes, reading sessions and workshops, as well as receive a professional live recording of their work at one of the festival concerts. Participants will spend the day learning techniques, gaining ideas, and trying new things out with a focus on composing under direction esteemed faculty: Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland), Raphaël Cendo (France) and Vladimir Tarnopolsky (Russia).

The festival will be held in distinguished venues around the city, including the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic, Erarta Museum, Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina, St. John’s Church Jaani Kirik, and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Internationally-renowned ensembles will be performing, such as the ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland), Garage Ensemble (Germany), Chronos (Cyprus), Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia), Studio for New Music Ensemble (Russia), Makrokosmos Quartet (Switzerland), and more. The program of the festival consists exclusively of world premieres and Russian premieres, reaffirming St. Petersburg as a center of world culture, and strengthening its distinction as the cultural capital of Russia.

ENMT is proud to be part of the amazing festival CrossRoads and its great competition/call for scores.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

CROSSROADS aims to promote international cooperation between composition, and contemporary music performance students from different countries. Its main goal is to create an opportunity for young artists to learn from each other, to get to know different cultures and to build international relationships.

The Festival will invite 15 young student composers from all around Europe to be performed by 4 ensembles in the concerts, held during the Festival! The residing ensembles of 2019 are:
Schallfeld Ensemble (Graz, Austria)
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Tallinn, Estonia)
The Interstring Project (Trossingen, Germany)
Ensemble NAMES (Salzburg, Austria)

If you are studying composition in Europe and want to be a part of our adventure in Salzburg during the 7-9th of November 2019, APPLY NOW!

All you need to do is send us some information about yourself (please check the application requirements below) before the 1st of May, 2019 and after the selection is finished, 15 of the most interesting candidates will be invited to compose new pieces for the chosen ensembles and to participate in the Festival.

The selected students will be provided with the accommodation in Salzburg for the time of the Festival, as well as will receive a refund of 150 eur for the travel costs.

Application Requirements
-Who can apply?
Composers of any age and nationality, studying in the EU.

-How?
Send us the following:
Short biography in English or German
Link(s) to (a) recording(s) of any of your recent works
Copy of the document, proving your current studies
Short motivational letter
Preference of the ensemble you want to compose for (information below). Please choose only 1 ensemble!
Applications have to be sent by e-mail to the crossroads@moz.ac.at

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st of May, 2019

(For your information: deadline for complete scores and parts: 15th of September 2019)

Please note: applications, received after the deadline or missing any of the required files will not be considered!

All applicants will be informed about their participation within 3 weeks after the application deadline. The selected composers will be given more detailed information about the composition requirements then.

Additional Information:

15 selected composers will be invited to compose for and participate in the Crossroads Festival and its events, held at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg on 7-9th of November, 2019

The selection of the students will be made by the ensemble members, the main criteria being originality, quality and style of the recent pieces, provided in the recordings of the application.sil😍

ENMT will be featured in the International World Music Festival 2019 (ISCM) with a program of edgy multimedia works. The concert takes place on Sunday, 5th of May at 20:00, in Kanuti Gildi hall.

The dividing lines between various disciplines of arts were blurred and disappeared early in the past century. With artists liberately creating works that were hard to label within traditional definitions.

Slowly but surely this merger reached to the music world too. For many composers, music isn’t limited to auditory experience, but reaches beyond a barrage of sensation and cognition. From employing tools that were not meant to be used for music, to inventing means for making new category of sound exploitation.

This program includes several of those ground breaking composers that stepped out of realm of music and applied what could narrowly be called media.

The program also includes works of ISCM official selection.

Alexander Schubert
Star me kitten (2015)
Shai Cohen
“Noumenon”  composition for ensemble with audiovisuals (2018, World premier)
Max C. Vinetz
“here”  flute, electric guitar and electronics (2017)
Francesco Filidei
I funerali dell’Anarchico Serantini (2005-6)
Stefan Prins
Generation Kill – offspring 1 (2012)

ENMT is proud to announce the renowned saxophone virtuoso Marcus Weiss will be our guest soloist in May!

ENMT has commissioned Estonian composer Elis Hallik to write a new composition for this project. Moreover on the program there are Estonian premier of pieces by Hans Thomalla, Nadir Vassena and Xavier Dayer.

The concert takes place on Sunday 19th of May at 18:00, in The Great Guild Hall (Suurgildi Hoone) of Estonian History Meusum, located in the heart of Tallinn’s old town Pikk 17.

The project then will be performed in St. Petersburg during reMusik festival on May 22nd.

Hans Thomalla
Fracking
Simon Steen-Andersen
Study for string instrument
Nadir Vassena
Mute Materie
Xavier Dayer
Mais je me suis enfuis
Elis Hallik
Touching the first sounds 

During the reMusik, 6th St. Petersburg International New Music Festival, ENMT will have 2 performances of different programs. Additionally we will give reading sessions and and workshops to the academy participants, and the selected pieces would be performed during our concerts in the festival.

The first concert, together with our guest soloist Marcus Weiss on May 21st in the Lumier Hall museum, and dedicated to the repertoire of contemporary classical pieces from Switzerland, Russia and Estonia.

Our second concert takes place at the prestigious New Stage of the Alexandrisky Theatre on 22nd of May. The program consists of pieces of multimedia and electroacoustic music.

As a subsidiary of Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Sound Plasma Tallinn 2019 takes place 19th until 21st of September. Similar to previous editions of festival there will be performances as well as masterclasses and workshops.

Concerts are in Mustpeade Maja (House of Brotherhood of Blackheads/Tallinn Philharmonic Society) and Estonian History Museum’s Great Guild Hall.

Masterclasses in collaboration with and within premises of Estonian Academy of Music and theatre, will be held on 20th and 21st of September.

September 19th 19:00
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Cenk Ergün Use Strings* (new version)
Raphael Languillat Vision of the Living Light (d’après Hildegard von Bingen)
Pascale Critonb Hold
Jeff A. Brown Motion harmony #6
Nicholas Deyoe Vln
Arash Yazdani Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes

As a subsidiary of Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Sound Plasma Berlin 2019 takes place 1st until 3rd of November. Similar to previous editions of festival there will be performances as well as masterclasses and workshops.

Concerts are in Acker Stadt Palast.

November 2nd 20:30
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Cenk Ergün Use Strings* (new version)
Raphael Languillat Vision of the Living Light (d’après Hildegard von Bingen)
Pascale Critonb Hold
Jeff A. Brown Motion harmony #6
Nicholas Deyoe Vln
Arash Yazdani Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes

ENMT is performing in Salzburg Mozarteum University’s CrossRoads 2019 festival.

Program contains 4 newly pieces from the selected composers of call for scores, and 2 pieces from our repertoire.

Solitär, Universität Mozarteum

Program:
Oscar Jockel: gold erstarrte hülle der erinnerung – überschreibung III (2019)*
Jeff Brown: Motion Harmony #6 (2014)
Cong Wei: Bathe my soul in the fire (2019)*
Arash Yazdani: Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 5 minutes (2019)
Alyssa Aska: Grātia (2019)*
Nicholas Brochec: the eye (2019)*

Performers: Maria Elonen (Flöte) / Helena Tuuling (Klarinette) / Nina Kawaguchi (Violine) / Talvi Nurgamaa (Viola) / Teemu Mastovaara (Violoncello)

Dirigent | Conductor: Arash Yazdani

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is pleased to announce the Mexican composer, sound artist, philosopher, writer and multifaceted artisan Samuel Cedillo as the composer in residence with our ensemble during November.

Mr. Cedillo will work with our musicians in creation and preparation of his new composition, CANON A, for us to be premiered on Sunday, November 24th at 19:00, in Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava at Telliskivi Creative City.

Program:
Francesco Filidei – I funerali dell’anarchico Serantini
Nam June Paik – One for violin solo (Estonian premiere)
Jeff Brown – Motion harmony #6
Georges Aperghis – Complainte (Estonian premiere)
Samuel Cedillo – CANON A (world premiere)

The Mexican composer, writer, artist and craftsman, Samuel Cedillo will be our composer in residence in November 2019.

Mr. Cedillo will work with our musicians in creation and preparation of his new composition, CANON A, for us to be premiered on November 24th, in Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava at Telliskivi 60A. Samuel will additionally give a recital of Mexican contemporary vocal music on Friday 22nd in Vanalinna Muusikamaja, Uus 16c.

Mexican composer. Of Mazahua indian origins. Peasant and craftsman in his childhood. He studied composition at the Conservatory of Roses of Michoacán with Germán Romero. Of its main formative influences subsequent to Romero, Cedillo considers mainly to Emmanuel Nunes and Pierluigi Billone. He has reviewed his work with mexican and foreign composers. His music is mainly programmed in Europe, the United States and Latin America. His career has prizes, awards, scholarships, recordings, commissions, residences and courses.

Part of his pedagogical activity is dedicated to community work within indigenous communities; Along with a team of purhépecha musicians, is founder of the Purhépecha Conservatory, unique institution in its format and educational model, an independent project dedicated to the training of traditional musicians.

Since 2008, he is a guide of a free musical creation workshop for young composers, with current headquarters in Páztcuaro Michoacán. He is currently part of the National System of Creators of Mexico.

Program:
Alessandro Perini
Michael Maierhof
Hugo Morales Murguia
Arash Yazdani

Program 2020
* World Premiere

November 19th 19:00
Ensemble L’itineraire

Jonathan Harvey    3 Sketches
Tristan Murail    Une lettre de Vincent
Fuminori Tanada    Echoing Forest
Michaël Levinas    Froissement d’ailes
Sina Fallahzadeh new work*
Tristan Murail Feuilles à travers les cloches

November 20th 19:00

Kadri-Ann Sumera recital for 2 pianos
Liisa Hirsch Quantom Well*
Arash Yazdani Hommage á Georg Friedrich Haas*
Georg Friedrich Haas 3 Hommages

November 21st 21:00
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Georg Friedrich Haas In Vain for chamber orchestra and light show

conductor: Arash Yazdani

Noblessneri valukoda, Nobeli Saal

UPDATE: Due to the pandemic situation the concert took place without Fie Schouten and insted Meelis Vind replaced her in the performance. WATCH THE PERFORMANCE HERE!

ENMT is proud to announce the renowned bass and contrabass clarinetist virtuoso Fie Schouten will be our guest soloist in April!

After numerous postponement, our collaboration with Ms. Schouten takes place within the framework of COMMUTE festival 2021.

The concert takes place on Thursday 29th of April at 21:00, in BlackBox of Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, and will be live-streamed online.

Program includes pieces by written for ENMT, by students of Estonian Academy of Music. As well as pieces by Gérard Grisey and Caspar de Gelmini. In the program is the graduation piece by Brazilian composer Marcelo Politano.

Agita Reke Does everybody dream? *
Astra Susi This is how I feel now*
Gérard Grisey Anoubis-Noud
Fabrizio Nastari Working and singing*
Caspar de Gelmini Match 3 *
Marcelo Politano Lendavad Jõed *

* World premiere

APHORISM includes pieces from composers with various backgrounds and aesthetics, with one strong common thread, of being originated in Baltic states. The term Aphorism was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates in which the first sentence of his work is: “Life is short, art long…, judgment difficult.”

ENMT performs the closing concert at the Baltic Music Days/Estonian Music Days Festival. The entire concert can be listened to at various radio stations, and viewed at EMT TV

Arash Yazdani Aphorism (2016)
Santa Bušs Ich kann dich noch sehen… (2020)
Elo Masing Touch* **(2021)
Ülo Krigul The Wolf Queen* ** (2021)
Elo Masing The Garden of Forking Paths*(2021)
Justina Repečkaite Working and singing (2014)
Ülo Krigul Streeeeeeeeeeeeeetch * (2021)

* World premiere
** Music for young people

Works by:
Mark Applebaum
Cathy Van Eck
Hugo Morales Murguia
Alessandro Perini
Arash Yazdani

ENMT:
Talvi Hunt
Talvi Nurgamaa
Juan Fran Cabrera
Arash Yazdani

The legendary Czech composer Alois Hàba, one of the forefathers of microtonl and alternative intonations music, has an array of pieces with various intonation systems.

An artefact in the National Museum in Prague, this 1936 harmonium was the engine behind many of Hàba’s staggering 6th-tone division pieces. Interestingly he composed only one piece for the harmonium, 6 pieces for 6th-tone harmonium. Until now this composition has never been performed in public, on the intended instrument it’s based on; we are performing these pieces in the program as well.

We are performing Hàba’s rarely heard 6 pieces, in addition to 6 new compositions for his harmonium and accompanying ensemble.

The composers who wrote new pieces for this project are:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Klaus Lang
Marc Sabat
Gérard Pape
Nina Fukoka
Anna-Louis Randolph-Walton
Arash Yazdani

Sound Plasma Festival for Alternative Intonations is back! This year both in Tallinn (November 11 & 12) and Berlin (November 26th).

Featuring guest ensembles: Trio Scordatura, Dsilton band and the extended Scordatura ensemble; soloist Miroslav Beinhauer and plenty of new music and new instruments!

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn performs works written for the legendary instrument, the harmonium in 6th-tone tuning, belonging to the legendary composer Alois Hába and ensemble. In a collaboration with the Czech National Museum, UdK, and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundations.

ENMT concert in Tallinn

November 12th 19:00 – Tallinna Filharmoonia, Mustpeade maja

Works by:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Klaus Lang
Marc Sabat
Gerard Pape
Arash Yazdani
Alois Hába

Sound Plasma Festival for Alternative Intonations is back! This year both in Tallinn (November 11 & 12) and Berlin (November 26th).

Featuring guest ensembles: Trio Scordatura, Dsilton band and the extended Scordatura ensemble; soloist Miroslav Beinhauer and plenty of new music and new instruments!

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn performs works written for the legendary instrument, the harmonium in 6th-tone tuning, belonging to the legendary composer Alois Hába and ensemble. In a collaboration with the Czech National Museum, UdK, and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundations.

ENMT in Berlin

November 26th 21:00 – Musikbrauerei

Works by:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Klaus Lang
Marc Sabat
Gerard Pape
Arash Yazdani
Alois Hába

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn join forces with Finland’s virtuosic band Defunensemble, to give the Estonian and FInnish premieres of Fausto Romitelli’s masterpiece: Professor Bad Trip

Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip, Lessons I-III

Defunensemble:
Mikko Raasakka, clarinet
Hanna Kinnunen, flute
Markus Hohti, cello
Emil Holmström, piano
Timo Kurkikangas, sound engineer
+
Jukka Kääriäinen, e-guitar.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn:
Nina Kawaguchi, violin
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand, bass guitar
Arash Yazdani, conductor
+
Indrek Vau, trumpet
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussions

Professor Bad Trip in Tallinn
December 3rd 19:00 – Stuudio 1, ERR Raadiomaja

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn join forces with Finland’s virtuosic band Defunensemble, to give the Estonian and FInnish premieres of Fausto Romitelli’s masterpiece: Professor Bad Trip

Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip, Lessons I-III

Defunensemble:
Mikko Raasakka, clarinet
Hanna Kinnunen, flute
Markus Hohti, cello
Emil Holmström, piano
Timo Kurkikangas, sound engineer
+
Jukka Kääriäinen, e-guitar.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn:
Nina Kawaguchi, violin
Talvi Nurgamaa, viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand, bass guitar
Arash Yazdani, conductor
+
Indrek Vau, trumpet
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussions

Professor Bad Trip in Helsinki
December 4th 19:00 – Musikkitalo

Klang concert series

VIDEO OF THE CONCERT

Works by:
Mark Applebaum
Mark Barden
Hugo Morales Murguia
Arash Yazdani

ENMT:
Madis Jürgens
Paul-Gunnar Loorand
Teemu Mastovaara
Arash Yazdani

Karl Erik Laas (technician/sound design)

Works by:
Mark Applebaum
Mark Barden
Hugo Morales Murguia
Arash Yazdani

ENMT:
Madis Jürgens
Paul-Gunnar Loorand
Teemu Mastovaara
Arash Yazdani

Karl Erik Laas (technician/sound design)

ENMT makes its Polish debut in the prestigious Warsaw Autumn Festival, September 23rd

Program:
Jeff A. Brown – Motion Harmony #6*
Arash Yazdani – Demodulation*
Żaneta Rydzewska – Elusive**
Hugo Morales Murguia – Variable Axial Flux*
Yair Klartag – Pros Mathematikous*
Arash Yazdani – Instruction Manual of How to Learn Stop Worrying and Love the bomb in 5 minutes*

* Polish Premiers
** World Premiere

ENMT:
Karolina Leedo
Chiara Percivati
Talvi Hunt
Anna Jalving
Talvi Nurgamaa
Paul-Gunnar Loorand
Arash Yazdani
Karl Erik Laas

ENMT (and V4R1) in HALL
19:00
Scrapyard (version 2.6)
V4R1 – 20:00

Changelog:
following features are added or improved

Cathy Van Eck
Mark Applebaum
Jeff Brown
Hugo Morales Murguia
Mansoor Mani Hosseini

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

The 6th edition of the festival experiments with new intonation ideas with a flavour of electroacoustic music. For the first time, a particular focus on music from Switzerland takes place in Tallinn and Berlin.

Festival’s highlights include the performances of Ensemble Phoenix Basel, as well as the hour-long piece for 9 keyboards and 9 computers by Enno Poppe. The full length performance of a special piece by Peter Ablinger, which was developed together with the flutist Erik Drescher, during the lock-downs, will receive its Estonian premiere by Mr. Drescher and Mr. Ablinger themselves. World premiere of pieces by Demetre Gamsachurdia, Aleksander Gabrys, Sami Klemola, Sander Saarmets, Matthias S. Krüger and Liisa Hõbepappel are other important events in Sound Plasma 2022.

Sound Plasma version 6 wants to explore a musical language that is not classical or established, even within the microtonal or intonation-based music. For this we found works, and composers, that fear not to use the old and the new and the technology and the tradition freely in order to create their special voice. Rather predictably a strong presence of electronic sounds emerged in our program.

The festival reaches out to the Swiss music scene not only because of the impeccable quality of the music/performances but because of the nurturing effect the Swiss musical culture has on developing special and uncompromisingly unique musical voices.

The current edition of the festival dares to explore a brand new point of view with a basis in the electronic, and sometimes corny, sounds of the 60s and 70s.

12th of November 2022
Venue: Kanuti Gildi SAAL

19:30 defunensemble (Finland) and Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia)

Program:
Enno Poppe “Rundfunk” for nine synthesizers and nine computers (2018)
ENMT in Berlin

The 6th edition of the festival experiments with new intonation ideas with a flavour of electroacoustic music. For the first time, a particular focus on music from Switzerland takes place in Tallinn and Berlin.

Festival’s highlights include the performances of Ensemble Phoenix Basel, as well as the hour-long piece for 9 keyboards and 9 computers by Enno Poppe. The full length performance of a special piece by Peter Ablinger, which was developed together with the flutist Erik Drescher, during the lock-downs, will receive its Estonian premiere by Mr. Drescher and Mr. Ablinger themselves. World premiere of pieces by Demetre Gamsachurdia, Aleksander Gabrys, Sami Klemola, Sander Saarmets, Matthias S. Krüger and Liisa Hõbepappel are other important events in Sound Plasma 2022.

Sound Plasma version 6 wants to explore a musical language that is not classical or established, even within the microtonal or intonation-based music. For this we found works, and composers, that fear not to use the old and the new and the technology and the tradition freely in order to create their special voice. Rather predictably a strong presence of electronic sounds emerged in our program.

The festival reaches out to the Swiss music scene not only because of the impeccable quality of the music/performances but because of the nurturing effect the Swiss musical culture has on developing special and uncompromisingly unique musical voices.

The current edition of the festival dares to explore a brand new point of view with a basis in the electronic, and sometimes corny, sounds of the 60s and 70s.

24th of November 2022
18:30 Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia)

Aleksander Gabrys: »Nevermore« (2022, world premiere)
Demetre Gamsachurdia: »CRAVE« (2022, world premiere)
Sander Saarmets: »and the sky turned yellow« (2022, world premiere)
Sami Klemola: »Canvas IIb« (2022, world premiere)
Liisa Hõbepappel: »The jangling lightness of solice« (2022, world premiere)

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

Composer in residence: Hugo Morales Murguia

Changelog:
following features are added or improved

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)

The sound art and music festival Üle Heli focuses on the meaning of music and sound and the connections between different art fields instead of genre definitions. One of the main platforms of the festival is to offer sound artists and experimental musicians the opportunity to develop and introduce their ideas. Since this year is the tenth year of the festival, it has a somewhat summary character. Thus, the thematic focus of the festival this time is the "language of sound", through which it is possible to look at many things that have been in the orbit of interest from a new angle. Focusing on the ability of sound to expand meanings, the Üle Heli festival approaches sound as a language through which it is possible to create new meanings instead of seeing sound and music as a functional tool that exists to amplify and illustrate meanings.

Program:

Liisa Hirsch

Einike Leppik

Malle Maltis

Aleksander Gabrys

Alexander Schubert

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

An evening of sound art and experimental metal music in the former spacious 1500 square meter Vision Venue of T1 Centre, just before its conversion into retail space.

The evening will continue with the themes of Üle Heli 2023 and at the same time provide hints for the festival taking place next autumn. The program, consisting of varied short performances, combines an installative and performative approach in one whole.

Program:

- Local radio installation and three solo performances by Raul Keller, Hello Upani and Katrin Essenson.

- Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Maria Elonen - flute, Mirjam Avango - clarinet) will perform Arash Yazdan's work "Stromateis: Lessness".

- Austrian sound artist Fabian Lanzmaier will improvise with sound synthesis and feedback options, against the backdrop of visuals created by Tencu.

- Aivar Tõnso's Ebakälarisistüsteemi installation and concert, continuing the direction started in the exhibitions "Resomatic Still Life" and "Gravitational Sources".

- Juhan Vihterpal & Kristino Rav present a performative plan for a modular synthesizer and the human body.

- Visual and technical solutions are created by Rene Manivald Tamme.

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,

SOUND PLASMA is a concert series and festival format dedicated to music with alternative intonation. It has been organized since 2017 and it has taken place annually in Berlin and Tallinn as a network of satellite mini-festivals.

The aim of the festival is to introduce the audience to the latest contemporary music, including alternative intonations that have rarely been heard in Estonia and Germany, through high-level concerts. The festival has also included numerous masterclasses and lectures by specialists in their field in Tallinn and Berlin.

November 13th 19:00

Kultuurikatla õuetorn (Kursi tänav 3, Tallinn, Estonia)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

William Dougherty Empty cisterns and exhausted wells* ** (2025)
Liisa Hirsch Chorus. Immerse. Symmetry* ** (2025)
Dror Feiler  Excarnation Redux* (2025)
Klaus Lang  Corium* ** (2025)
Arash Yazdani  Sharveh* ** (2025)

* World premiere

** commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

November 21st at 20:00

Startbahn-Genezarethkirche Herrfurthplatz 14, 12049 Berlin

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

William Dougherty  Empty cisterns and exhausted wells* ** (2025)
Liisa Hirsch  Chorus. Immerse. Symmetry* ** (2025)
Dror Feiler  Excarnation Redux* (2025)
Klaus Lang  Corium* ** (2025)
Arash Yazdani  Sharveh* ** (2025)

* World premiere

** commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

November 23rd at 19:00

Naxoshallen konzerte, Waldschmidtstraße 19, 60316 Frankfurt am Main

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

William Dougherty  Empty cisterns and exhausted wells* ** (2025)
Liisa Hirsch  Chorus. Immerse. Symmetry* ** (2025)
Justina Repeckaite  Millefleur* (2025)
Klaus Lang  Corium* ** (2025)
Arash Yazdani  Sharveh* ** (2025)

November 23rd at 19:00

Naxoshallen konzerte, Waldschmidtstraße 19, 60316 Frankfurt am Main

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Arash Yazdani  Romance or something (2024)
Jeff Arlo Brown Motion harmony #6 (2014)
Hugo Morales Murguia Topspin Plasma (2021)
Hugo Morales Murguia  150pF (2014)
Hugo Morales Murguia  Etude of Propulsion (2014)

In its 91st Naxos Hallenkonzerte, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT) makes its Frankfurt am Main debut, showcasing its dual nature – its connection to avant-garde contemporary music and its experimental approach to performative electronic music:

Part 1 — The torupill (bagpipe) is renowned in Estonia for its distinctive sound and cultural significance. Each torupill possesses specific intonations and timbres. ENMT has invited five composers with diverse stylistic approaches to microtones to create new ensemble works, exploring the acoustic and psychoacoustic properties of the torupill and discovering new perspectives on its combination with microtones. This results in an avant-garde relationship to the traditional instrument.

The torupill (bagpipe) is known for its characteristic sound and cultural significance in Estonia. Each bagpipe has its own specific intonations and timbres. ENMT has invited five composers with diverse stylistic approaches to microtones to write new ensemble pieces, investigating the acoustic and psychoacoustic properties of the torupill and discovering new perspectives on its combination with microtones. Part 2 — The ENMT presents a special performance: The Scrapyard Series was launched in 2020 with the aim of fusing contemporary music with various other media, creating a blend of DIY, lo-fi, and classical new music. In addition to expanded instrumental techniques, choreographic and visual elements play a central role in the presentation.

ENSEMBLE NEW MUSIC TALLINN

Maria Lume • flutes
Soo-Young Lee • clarinets
Talvi Hunt • piano
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee • violin
Talvi Nurgamaa • viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand • cello
Madis Jürgens • double bass
Arash Yazdani • conductor

Katariin Raska • Torupill | estnischer Dudelsack

PROGRAMM

TORUPILL

William Dougherty | *1988

empty cisterns and exhausted wells | 2025 ٭

Klaus Lang | *1971

corium | 2025 ٭

Liisa Hirsch | *1984

Chorus. Immerse. Symmetry | 2025 ٭

Arash Yazdani | *1984

Sherveh | 2025 ٭

Justina Repečkaitė | *1989

Millefleur | 2025

٭ Commissioned Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, funded by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

SCRAPYARD

Arash Yazdani | *1985

Romance or something für 4 MIDI-Controller | 2024

Jeffrey Arlo Brown | *1988

Motion Harmony #6 für 4 Pendulum | 2014

Hugo Morales Murguia | *1979

Topspin Plasma für 3 Musiker:innen, Insektenvernichter, MX-NL-Becken und Verstärkungssystem | 2021

150pF für Körperkapazität und Verstärkungssystem | 2012

Propulsion Etude für 4 Springer und bewegungssensitive Plattformen | 2014

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,

The Open Space concert series was initiated by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn with the aim of fostering the growth of a more diverse contemporary music community and increasing community cohesion. It also presents both newly composed works and classic contemporary music works that are rarely performed in Estonia.
The event is taking place on 26th February at 19:00 in the House of the Blackheads, white hall

Program:
Nino Bantsadze
"Fernweh" for viola d'amore and electronics (2026, premiere)Talvi Nurgamaa (viola d'amore)

Galina Grigorjeva
"Lament" solo alto flute (2000)Simona Maria Reischl (flute)

Pascal Criton
"Hold" for string trio (2019)

Toomas Hendrik Ellervee (violin)
Talvi Nurgamaa (viola)
Paul-Gunnar Loorand (cello)

Perttu Haapanen
"Strophes II" for vocal ensemble (2007)

Iris Kallas
Simona Maria Reischl
Myroslav Dykyi
Indrek Koff
Kadri Klanberg

Arash Yazdani
"Ga Geriv" for solo flute and pre-recorded electronics (2020)

Maria Lume (flute)

Georges Aperghis
"Complainte" (1982)

Madis Jürgens (singer with musical saw)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn
MUBA new music ensemble

MUBA coaches:
Iris Oja
Tarmo Johannes

Sound Engineer:
Silver Sagur

Toetaja / Supporter: Eesti Kultuurkapital / Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT) is once again on stage with an exciting and special SCRAPYARD series multimedia concert performance. This time with a brand new programm. This Lo-Fi music performance series, which began in 2020, will present works that combine contemporary music and various media.
The aim of the series is to combine homemade, unusual instruments and elements considered imperfect in the context of the performance (Lo-Fi music) with contemporary classical music.

The performance uses various aspects of performance art, technology and media, resulting in a novel interdisciplinary experience.
The program includes works in which movement plays an important role. This is not limited to conceptual manifestation, but movement also manifests itself specifically in the resulting changing sound world. The result is a performance consisting of sound works, where a choreographed and multi-instrumentalist ensemble creates unusual sound experiences and surprising combinations, using musical instruments with expanded capabilities.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn was founded in 2013 and has since gained recognition both in Estonia and internationally. As one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in the Baltic and Nordic countries, it covers a wide range of contemporary styles and genres, focusing primarily on alternative intonations and microtonal music. The ensemble's work is characterised by a spirit of experimentation and a desire to explore the recent history of music, while constantly discovering new sonic dimensions.
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is the winner of the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize 2026.

Performers:

Madis Jürgens

Paul-Gunnar Loorand

Talvi Hunt

Arash Yazdani

Karl Erik Laas (sound engineer)

Light technician: Henry Kasch
Director: Arash Yazdani

Supporters: Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Culture

At the centre of the programme are two new works, both receiving their world premieres. Anna Veismane’s "Poēma. Piens." draws inspiration from a poem by Imants Ziedonis and deliberately turns time back to 1977 – almost the year of the composer’s birth. It is a return to a different Latvian rhythm, a different sense of calm, and a different language, now heard through the lens of present-day experience.

The new work by Evija Skuķe is constructed in a fractal form: material repeats as time is continuously rotated and reorganised, like a pattern that shifts scale. For the listener, this creates a tangible sensation – familiar temporal orientation begins to slip away, and the mind is invited to abandon automatic following in favour of conscious presence.

The programme also includes works not previously heard in Latvia: music by Estonian composer Age Veeroos, who turns time enigmatically toward the hour of dreams, and by Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal, whose memory-oriented music is inspired by patterns of collective human behaviour.

The programme is performed by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, whose precision and flexibility allow these ideas to be heard not as declarations, but as lived experience. Turning Time creates a situation in which each listener is invited to ask: what do I choose to turn forward today – and what do I deliberately turn in another direction?

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Program:

Age Veeroos "Outlines of the Night" (2023)
Evija Skuke "laiks ir vilnis" (2026, premiere)
Anna Veismane "The Poem. Milk" (2026, premiere)
Jan Martin Smordal "All Play" (2014/edited 2016)
Justina Repeckaite "Millefleur" (2025)

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,

The Open Space concert series presents both newly composed works and classic contemporary music works that are rarely performed in Estonia.
The series was initiated by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn with the aim of fostering the growth of a more diverse contemporary music community and increasing community cohesion.The event is taking place on 16th May at 19:00 in the Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music

Program:

Kristupas Bubnelis "...please leave your message after the tone..." for violin, cello and electronics (2020)

Alireza Farajianhamedani "Determined liberty" for flute and flutist's voice (2020)

Seyed Reza Kazazi "Lower Sky IV" for viola d'amore (2026, premiere)
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Simon Steen-Andersen "Study for string instrument #1" for strings (2007)

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarson "Quartet nr 17" for voice, flute, oboe and trumpet (2022)

Line Tjørnhøj Two movements from "enTmenschT" (2018) 
#throughbacks for two performers
#joy for four performers

Katherine Emily Rumin "Lullaby" for viola d'amore and live-electronics (2026)

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn will perform in Warsaw Autumn festival for the second time.

The diverse program will consist of premieres and recently composers works for ENMT. 

More information coming SOON!

Scrapyard is a performance series of Lo-Fi music shows. The aim of which is to have a mixture of DIY and Lo-Fi music, with contemporary classical music.
During these events, we employ many different aspects of performance art, technology and media which results in a complete interdisciplinary experience.

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is bringing to the stage a choreographic ensemble of musicians and musical instruments with expanded capabilities. The concert program includes several highly effective and technically complex works.