What comes to mind when I consider Estonian music in 2025? Tommy Cash, choral singing, and Arvo Pärt. Cash recorded Estonia’s most popular song of the year. Representing his country at Eurovision, he ...

Music producer Boipepperoni, aka Frederik Mustonen, talks in "ID" about Triibupasta's rise, his future plans and why Estonian pop should take more risks. You came to this interview straight from a ...

ON A recent day, Helen Sildna was sifting through applications, looking at products, business plans and strategies for market expansion. This may be business as usual for investment managers, but the ...

Perhaps more than any other country in the world, the history of the Baltic nation of Estonia is a story set to song. Whether under German, Danish, Swedish, or Soviet occupation, Estonians have long ...

Tallinn Music Week is Estonia’s annual celebration of its music. This year though, Russia’s continued presence in Ukraine ensures the event has taken on a significance no one would have wished for.

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) - the multi-venue city showcase fest, now in its 12th year - is nothing if not open-minded in its music curation. So, whether you’re a mosher or chin-stroking academic ...

Veljo Tormis, a prolific Estonian composer whose innovative choral works helped propel his Baltic nation’s drive to restore independence, died Jan. 21 in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. He was ...

Estonia is a land of music. Its runic folk song tradition predates the Vikings and its people lift their voices at the slightest provocation. Not surprising, then, that Soviet rule was finally ended ...

His country was invaded on 24 February. This outdoor performance is in Estonia’s capital city Tallinn, in the main square of the former industrial district Telliskivi. He says “we have a common value ...

“But it doesn’t mean anything!” complains little Gretel in “The Sound of Music,” faced for the first time with the seven notes (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si/ti, do) of the tonal scale. And her ...