HAAPSALU EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 14 - 18, 2010
Founded in the most beautiful West-Estonian resort town Haapsalu in 1994, the Early Music Days is one of the most appreciated festivals in its own genre in Estonia and has caught the attention of several outstanding foreign artists. The aim is to bring our professional musicians as well as the audience closer to the early music area through high-level performances. The most suitable venue for this is the XIII century Dome Church. The Festival offers also free courses for young musicians. The Festival is organised by Muusikaühing Studio Vocale, the Artistic Director is musicologist and conductor Toomas Siitan.

    During the Festival the audience can once again listen to the Haapsalu Festival Choir, the Tallinn Baroque Orchestra and Studio Vocale, offering masterfully polished programmes. Along the years the Festival has also hosted Concerto Copenhagen, Baroque Fever, Il Gardellino, Phantasm, Kontrabande Ensemble, Grazer Choralschola, the Paris Gregorian Choir, and soloists  Marcel Ponseele, Per-Olov Lindeke, Wieland Kuijken, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Andrew Lawrence-King, singers Maryseult Wieczorek, William Missin, Charles Humphries, James Gilchrist and Paul Hillier, conductors Stephen Layton, Howard Arman, Franz Karl Parssl, and André Cats.

XVII HAAPSALU EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

14.07 JOHANN VALENTIN MEDER - ORATORIO PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
8 p.m. Haapsalu Dome Church
Tõnis Kaumann (evangelist)
Uku Joller (Jesus)
Kädy Plaas (soprano)
Ensemble Studio vocale
Tallinn Baroque Orchestra
cond. Toomas Siitan
The most brilliant oratorio passion from the era before Bach is brought back from oblivion.

15.07 BOYS' CHOIR THE LITTLE SINGERS OF PARIS
7 p.m. Haapsalu Dome Church
Little Singers is one of the most famous children's choir in the world, testifying of an unequalled popular success which crossed the five continents.

15.07 NIGHT CONCERT: ENSEMBLE MINISTRILES DE MARSIAS (SPAIN)
10 p.m. Haapsalu Dome Church
Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566): the concert is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the great master of Spanish Renaissance. Organisers' warning: Spanish early cathedral music can be addictive!

17.07 SIRKKA-LIISA KAAKINEN-PILCH (BAROQUE VIOLIN) / ENSEMBLE BATTALIA
8 p.m. Haapsalu Dome Church
Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch (baroque violin)
Mika Suihkonen (viola da gamba)
Petteri Pitko (harpsichord, organ)
One of the most dazzling violinists of Northern Europe performs pieces by 17th century Italian and German geatest virtuosi.

17.07 NIGHT CONCERT: „STORIES ABOUT BIRDS": IREN LILL AND FRED JÜSSI
10 p.m. Haapsalu kuursaal, Promenaadi 1
Iren Lill (harpsichord)
Külli Tüli (sound recordings)
Narrator Fred Jüssi
Many composers have ambitiously attempted took the challenge to turn birdsong into music. But is birdsong music? Fred Jüssi shares his thoughts.

18.07 FINAL CONCERT: VIVALDI'S ANGELS
10 p.m. Haapsalu Dome Church
Solo motets and choir works for female singers by Antonio Vivaldi
Kädy Plaas (soprano)
Teele Jõks (mezzo-soprano)
Iris Oja (contraalto)
Haapsalu Festival Choir (female singers)
Tallinn Baroque Orchestra
cond. Toomas Siitan
Dozens of travelogues from 18th century Venice praised the angelic sound of the girls' cloister singers conducted by Vivaldi. We attempt to evoke this miracle.


Festivali kunstiline juht on Toomas Siitan.
The Artistic Director of the festival is Toomas Siitan.

Piletid 100.-/150.-/200.- www.piletilevi.ee ja tund enne algust kohapeal
Tickets 100.-/150.-/200.- www.piletilevi.ee and one hour before the beginning

Korraldaja/Organizer Muusikaühing Studio Vocale
Tel./phone +372 55 12347
+372 55 669164

pk. 905, 13402 Tallinn, ESTONIA · Phone +372 6715 702 · festival@hot.ee