Founded last year, the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Music moved its activities to the House of The Blackheads.
"The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Music is an excellent addition to House of The Blackheads, which is already home to the Tallinn Philharmonic and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. It will bring even more concerts and musicians to the house, giving music lovers even more reasons to visit," said Kaarel Oja, Deputy Mayor of Tallinn. "Enriching the activities of the House of the Blackheads and supporting specialised music centres are both important activities for Tallinn as a music city, and it was a sympathetic way to combine them in this case."
Estonia is creating world-class contemporary music, with an impressive diversity of dedicated performers and ensembles. The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Music aims to co-ordinate and develop contemporary and experimental music activities, and to organise creative residencies for composers, performers and musicologists. The longer-term aim of the Centre is also to increase Tallinn's attractiveness to the international contemporary music scene.
"The Estonian Contemporary Music Centre will bring together key organisations in the new music landscape and help to stimulate the professional contemporary music creation and performance discourse through lectures, concerts, workshops and public discussions," said Taavi Kerikmäe, composer and board member of the Estonian Contemporary Music Centre.
The positive effects of the move to the House of Blackheads are also visible in a short time - last week, from 10 to 11 November, the Tallinn New Music Ensemble presented Sound Plasma, a festival of microtonal music, and this weekend, from 18 to 19 November, the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined in the programme of the children's and youth music festival Big Bang by Ansambel U:, currently the most active and well-known new music ensemble in Estonia.
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