Events

Past events

1. 

   12 November 202612 Nov 202619:00House of the Blackheads, White HallTUMA

   Sound Plasma 10

   For Sound Plasma’s 10th anniversary, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is organizing a joint concert with the great Finnish contemporary music group defunensemble.

2. 

   6 November 20266 Nov 202619:00Startbahn-GenezarethkircheTUMA

   Sound Plasma Berlin

   Sound Plasma is going back to Berlin for its 10th anniversary.

3. 

   3 November 20263 Nov 202619:001st Studio of the ERR NewshouseU:

   Death

   U:’s All Souls’ season concert, addressing departure, death, and memories. Guest: to be announced

4. 

   2 November 20262 Nov 202619:00Tartu City History MuseumTUMA

   Ensemble for New Music Tallinn at AFEKT festival in Tartu

   Each piece in the programme opens a different kind of aperture, spatial, emotional, technological, or cultural, and the full arc of the programme reflects our ensemble’s values: curiosity, risk, and sonic diversity.

5. 

   1 November 20261 Nov 202617:30Krulli kvartalTUMA

   RITUALS / Ensemble for New Music Tallinn at AFEKT festival

   Each piece in the programme opens a different kind of aperture, spatial, emotional, technological, or cultural, and the full arc of the programme reflects our ensemble’s values: curiosity, risk, and sonic diversity.

6. 

   29 October 202629 Oct 202619:00ECCM hallImprotest

   Improtest: Electro Funeral

   Electro Funeral (EST)

7. 

   24 October 202624 Oct 202616:00ECCMCollaboration

   Launch of Kiwa's book MILLIMULLIMALLIKAD

   The publisher ;paranoia has published Kiwa's experimental novel “MILLIMULLIMALLIKAD”, a notional sequel to his award-winning debut novel “Kummiliimiallikad”.

8. 

   23 October 202623 Oct 202614:00Studio 1965Collaboration

   Raadio Tallinn 1965 at Üle Heli Festival

   From 23 to 25 October Studio Tallinn 1965 becomes a radiophonic event space, an ether created through reference and technological means.

9. 

   22 October 202622 Oct 2026ECCM

   11th Üle Heli festival “Heli on vaba”

   The eleventh Üle Heli festival of sound art and music focuses not on genre definitions but on the meaning of music and sound and their connections with other fields of art.

10. 

    11 October 202611 Oct 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicUlysses

    Gestures/situations: listening without a score. Liisa Hõbepappel, Kenn-Erik Kannike, Liis Vares

    Gestures/situations: listening without a score is a series of short artistic actions.

11. 

    10 October 202610 Oct 202619:30Kanuti Gildi SAALTUMA

    Scrapyard

    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.

12. 

    10 October 202610 Oct 202618:00Arvo Pärt CentreU:

    Morton Feldman 100: For Philip Guston

    Tarmo Johannes (flute), Taavi Kerikmäe (piano, celesta) and Vambola Krigul (percussion) perform one of the outstanding works by Morton Feldman of his last creative period that seldom can be heard in live performance.

13. 

    8 October 20268 Oct 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. Written & Experimental Ensemble (W&EE)

    Welcome to discover a new ensemble where composition and improvisation meet, and where contemporary music becomes a platform for curiosity, experimentation and cultural exchange.

14. 

    30 September 202630 Sept 202619:00ECCM hallUlysses

    Gestures/situations: listening without a score. Marianna Liik, Artjom Astrov, Maryn-Liis Rüütelmaa

    Gestures/situations: listening without a score is a series of short artistic actions.

15. 

    21 September 202621 Sept 202619:30Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert StudioTUMA

    Ensemble for New Music Tallinn at Warsaw Autumn festival

    Ensemble for New Music Tallinn will perform at the Warsaw Autumn festival for the second time with an exciting new program, combining torupill (Estonian bagpipe) and viola d’amore with ensemble.

16. 

    21 September 202621 Sept 202617:00Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, KinomuzeumCollaboration

    EMA at Warsaw Autumn

    Concert of the Estonian Electronic Music Society’s ensemble (EMA) at Warsaw Autumn, at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, in collaboration with the Polish Radio Experimental Studio.

17. 

    13 September 202613 Sept 202620:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    EMA at Pikk Street festival: concert of historic electronic music, grandparents special

    EMA plays a program of electronic music from the youth of our grandparents.

18. 

    13 September 202613 Sept 202619:00Studio 1965Collaboration

    EMA grandparents’ day workshop “Analogue synthesiser: forbidden under 60!”

    An EMA workshop for grandparents on learning to play an analogue synthesiser in half an hour.

19. 

    13 September 202613 Sept 202618:00Estonian Centre for Architecture / EKKMCollaboration

    Ludensemble presents: Gérard Grisey “Vortex temporum” and Terry Riley “In C”

    Ludensemble appears in the programme of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale with two concerts that explore the relationships between music, space and time.

20. 

    10 September 202610 Sept 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. Kurtág 100

    The string quartet works of György Kurtág.

21. 

    8 September 20268 Sept 202619:001st Studio of the ERR NewshouseU:

    Eesti / Biofoonia

    Ansambel U:’s concert presents a program of recent Estonian music (2023 to 2026) and explores its connection to the relationships between human, nature, sounds, music, life, and death. Guest: biosemiotician Kalevi Kull.

22. 

    31 May 202631 May 202619:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    “JOY!” MUBA New Music Ensemble concert

    A joyful programme of contemporary music for stepping into summer.

23. 

    27 May 202627 May 202619:00ECCMImprotest

    Improtest: Post Horn

    More info soon.

24. 

    19 May 202619 May 202618:00ECCM hallU:

    Residentuu:r 4

    U: continues its Residency series. In 2026, the theme for the Residency is Transfer.

25. 

    16 May 202616 May 202619:00ECCM hallTUMA

    Open Space #4

    The Open Space concert series presents both newly composed works and classic contemporary music works that are rarely performed in Estonia.

26. 

    14 May 202614 May 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. Versions

    The history of music could also be seen as a history of versions of musical material.

27. 

    12 May 202612 May 202619:00ECCM hallU:

    Touch Sensitivity / Sensitivity of Touch

    The concert features a selection of music by renowned European composers of the younger generation whose work is seldom performed in Estonia.

28. 

    9 May 20269 May 202619:00ECCM hallImprotest

    Improtest: Baumann / Pietilä / Soo

    Franziska Baumann is a multi-award-winning Swiss singer, improviser- composer and sound artist.

29. 

    8 May 20268 May 202612:00ECCMUlysses

    ULYSSES JOURNEYS FOR LIVE ELECTRONICS COMPOSING VOL 2.

    The participants are selected upon a description of their composition in progress they want to address during the practical workshop. The number of participants is limited to 6.

30. 

    14 April 202614 Apr 202615:30House of the Blackheads, Olavi HallU:

    Residentuu:r 3

    U: continues its Residency series. In 2026, the theme for the Residency is 'Transfer.

31. 

    12 April 202612 Apr 202620:00ECCM

    Panel Discussion: Freedom, Boundaries, and Sounds: The Paths of Estonian Contemporary Music in the World

    After World War II, the European musical landscape was split in two.

32. 12 April 202612 Apr 202618:00House of the Blackheads, Olavi Hall

    Estonian Music Abroad

    Over time, many people have left Estonia, including composers and musicians.

33. 

    12 April 202612 Apr 202615:00Great Amber Hall, LiepajaTUMA

    Baltic Music Days

    The Baltic Music Days will take place in Liepaja and Riga in 2026, and the theme of the festival is "We live in different times" - not only as an observation, but also as a call to action: different times begin the…

34. 

    11 April 202611 Apr 202617:30Estonia Concert Hall café

    Panel Discussion: What is the Breeding Ground for New Music Theatre?

    The discussion focuses on the next generation of (contemporary) music theatre, both in terms of creators and audiences.

35. 

    9 April 20269 Apr 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. LIVE ELECTRONICS. Hans-Gunter Lock, Andrus Kallastu

    LIVE ELECTRONICS is a direct dialogue between acoustic instruments and electronics.

36. 27 March 202627 Mar 202619:00ECCMImprotest

    Phil Minton / Kriton Beyer at Improtest

    The MINTON-BEYER DUO seems like a study of the phenomenon of the voice with two different instruments: the human voice and the daxophone.

37. 

    22 March 202622 Mar 2026Erika Synth, RigaUlysses

    ULYSSES JOURNEYS

    Live electronics has become an essential tool for music making for (not only) the younger generation of musicians worldwide.

38. 

    14 March 202614 Mar 202619:30Kanuti Gildi SAALTUMA

    SCRAPYARD

    In 2020 Ensemble for New Music Tallinn founded a special concert series called “Scrapyard”, devoted to lo-fi music.

39. 

    12 March 202612 Mar 202619:00House of the Blackheads, White and Olavi HallsU:

    Two-Hall Concert

    This is an ambitious project exploring how to be at two concerts at once.

40. 

    10 March 202610 Mar 202618:00House of the Blackheads, Olavi HallU:

    Residentuu:r 2

    U: continues its Residency series. In 2026, the theme for the Residency is 'Transfer.

41. 

    7 March 20267 Mar 202619:00Tallinn College of Music and Ballet, large chamber hallCollaboration

    DUOS V

    The series "DUOS" is curated by Tarmo Johannes and features music for flute and one other performer. This time his partner is a renowned harpist Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir.

42. 

    5 March 20265 Mar 202619:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music, House of the BlackheadsSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. PARADIGMS. Lecture, concert and discussion. Leo Semlek “Muusikastiilide perioodsüsteem”

    The Schönberg Society's trio of tuners, Juhatus: Gerhard Lock Andrus Kallastu Hans-Gunter Lock

43. 

    26 February 202626 Feb 202619:00House of the Blackheads, White HallTUMA

    OPEN SPACE

    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.

44. 

    20 February 202620 Feb 202619:00House of the BlackheadsImprotest

    Tencu/ Samson at Improtest

    Improvisation on modular synthesiser and saxophone grows into an electroacoustic soundscape that wavers on the border between chaos and restrained noise.

45. 

    16 February 202616 Feb 2026House of the Blackheads, White HallCollaboration

    Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest

    Ludensemble presents the album Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest, featuring music by composer Madli Marje Gildemann, released in January 2026.

46. 

    10 February 202610 Feb 202618:00House of the Blackheads, Olavi HallU:

    Residentuu:r 1

    U: continues its Residency series. In 2026, the theme for the Residency is 'Transfer.

47. 

    13 December 202513 Dec 2025House of the BlackheadsCollaboration

    Üle Heli 25 / ANSAMBEL U: "STRATIFIKATSIOONID" and HELIPORTATSIOON

    Ansambel U:'s concert "Stratifikatsioonid" deals with stratifications, depositions, branchings, solidifications, dispersals and perceptions.

48. 

    25 October 202525 Oct 202510:00House of the BlackheadsCollaboration

    Synth DIY Tallinn

    Electronic music is a unique mix of artistic and scientific creativity, producing sounds that have been part of our lives almost since the start of universal electrical supplies.

49. 

    14 September 202514 Sept 202520:30House of the Blackheads, Brotherhood HallCollaboration

    Pimenägemine

    Karl Ristikivi's radio play “Pimenägemine” was written in Swedish in the 1950s under the pseudonym Kent Jansson.

50. 

    14 September 202514 Sept 202516:00Draakoni Gallery

    Vanamuusika Ampsud. Pikk Street Festival.

    Vanamuusika Ampsud is a series of mini-concerts with Tuuli Lindeberg, an internationally acclaimed soprano in early and contemporary music. Appearing with Lindeberg are Anna-Liisa Eller and Taavi Kerikmäe.

51. 11 September 202511 Sept 202519:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music, House of the BlackheadsSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. Midnight Songs. Eriko Takahashi (piano)

    Estonian, Finnish and Japanese piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Works by Arvo Pärt, Urmas Sisask, Helena Tulve, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Akira Kobayashi, Somei Sato, Kai Nieminen, Selim Palmgren and Ari Romppanen.

52. 

    29 August 202529 Aug 202518:00House of the Blackheads

    Tallinn 1965 School Reunion at Culture Night

    Ideally, a school means a sense of belonging according to an internally recognised logic.

53. 17 May 202517 May 202516:00Collaboration

    Mette Mari Kaljas / Karl Jõgi / Stan Callewaert: on the potential for collaboration between graphic designer and composer

    On Saturday 17 May 2025 at 17:00, Mette Mari Kaljas presents her bachelor's project.

54. 

    15 May 202515 May 202520:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicSchönberg series

    Schönberg series REMIX 3 Andrus Kallastu composer's concert

    The conceptual concert programme Remix 3 presents works by Andrus Kallastu in moment form.

55. 

    15 May 202515 May 202517:30Collaboration

    Viktoria Grahv. Book of Glagolitic Dreams

    “Book of Glagolitic Dreams” is written for two singers, piano, accordion, viola, tape and video.

56. 

    14 May 202514 May 202517:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    Concert of the MUBA Contemporary Music Ensemble

    Helis Kärbo, flute Daniel Hinno, trombone Paulina Andrejeva, kannel Miia Polding, kannel Melinda Felicia Nitschke, piano Helena Laving, viola da gamba Juhan Laasik, cello Hannela Lüsi, voice

57. 

    28 April 202528 Apr 202518:00Studio Tallinn 1965Collaboration

    Studio Tallinn 1965: EMP 2025

    18:00: A debate on the ecosystem of contemporary music.

58. 

    14 April 202514 Apr 202518:00ECCM

    SEEDS

    The Centre of Contemporary Music's new series “SEEDS” creates a space for performers and composers who are starting out on the path of the professional contemporary musician.

59. 

    12 April 202512 Apr 202520:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    DUOS IV

    "DUOS" is a concert series curated by Tarmo Johannes, focusing on music for flute and another performer.

60. 

    10 April 202510 Apr 202519:00ECCMSchönberg series

    Schönberg series. Yellow Wasabi

    Yellow Wasabi was born in 1999 in Canton, China.

61. 

    8 April 20258 Apr 202518:00ECCM hallU:

    Residentuu:r 4

    Residentuu:r is a public workshop series by the ensemble U:.

62. 

    12 March 202512 Mar 202520:30ECCMImprotest

    Devaux/ Girard-Charest/ Kerikmäe at Improtest

    Sylvain Devaux is an oboist, improviser and composer.

63. 

    8 March 20258 Mar 202518:00ECCM hallU:

    Residentuu:r 3

    Residentuu:r is a public workshop series by the ensemble U:.

64. 

    7 March 20257 Mar 2025ECCMCollaboration

    HETKfEST

    HETKfEST is a new festival devoted to instant composition, the art of improvisation.

65. 

    28 February 202528 Feb 202519:00ECCMImprotest

    Kirke Karja at Improtest

    Kirke Karja (1989) is a pianist and composer.

66. 

    22 February 202522 Feb 202519:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    DUOS III

    "DUOS" is a concert series curated by Tarmo Johannes, focusing on music for flute and another performer.

67. 

    12 February 202512 Feb 202519:00ECCM hallU:

    URR-45: Defitsiit

    The concert will be streamed on the elektron.art platform.

68. 

    4 February 20254 Feb 202518:00ECCM hallU:

    Residentuu:r 2

    Residentuu:r is a public workshop series by the ensemble U:.

69. 

    22 January 202522 Jan 202518:00ECCM hallU:

    Residentuu:r 1

    Residentuu:r is a public workshop series by the ensemble U:.

70. 

    17 January 202517 Jan 202519:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicImprotest

    Villem Jahu at Improtest

    Villem Jahu is a visual and sound artist, synthesist and free improviser who focuses on a more abstract sound language and on live performance, mainly on self-built electronic instruments.

71. 

    29 December 202429 Dec 202418:00ECCM hallU:

    U: end-of-the-year-concert

    Ensemble U:'s end of the year new music concert.

72. 

    5 December 20245 Dec 202418:00Collaboration

    EKA, EMTA and BFM Science Café

    We continue to introduce creative research practices, this time with a focus on applying research results.

73. 

    23 November 202423 Nov 202419:00ECCMCollaboration

    DUOS II

    The series "DUOS" is curated by Tarmo Johannes and features music for flute and one other performer.

74. 

    14 November 202414 Nov 202419:00ECCMTUMA

    Sound Plasma

    Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and students of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EMTA)

75. 

    9 November 20249 Nov 202419:00ECCM

    Kasemets and Kurenniemi

    Performers: the Estonian Electronic Music Ensemble EMA and Mikko Ojanen.

76. 

    9 November 20249 Nov 202416:00ECCM

    Hainbach’s tape-cutting workshop

    Hainbach is a German experimental electronic music composer and video creator.He has become known internationally for his ambient recordings and experimental music techniques on his YouTube channel.

77. 

    8 November 20248 Nov 202421:00Estonian Centre of Contemporary MusicImprotest

    Robert Dick trio at Improtest

    Robert Dick Scandinavian Trio with Niels Præstholm and Christian Windfeld.

78. 

    8 November 20248 Nov 202419:00House of the Blackheads

    EMA concert “Drosseli Ringid”

    The programme brings the rediscovered electroacoustic compositions from the 1950s and 1960s by Õie-Olinda Sachermann (born 1915), presumably the first Estonian woman composer of electronic music, and music by Sven…

79. 

    8 November 20248 Nov 202417:00ECCM

    Exhibition “Primaarid” and panel discussion

    Primaarid is an exhibition of firsts. On show are machines and instruments that have been pioneers: they helped create unprecedented sound fields, entirely new musical styles and new ways of thinking about sound.

80. 

    8 November 20248 Nov 2024ECCM

    Conference "The Future Passed Us By"

    The conference and its accompanying concert programme focus on the agency of sound machines based on analogue technology.

81. 

    26 October 202426 Oct 202419:00ECCM hallCollaboration

    DUOS I

    The series "DUOS" is curated by Tarmo Johannes and features music for flute and one other performer.

82. 

    18 October 202418 Oct 2024ECCM, Kanuti Gildi SAALCollaboration

    Üle Heli 2024

    The sound art and music festival Üle Heli 24 takes place from 17 to 20 October.

83. 

    5 October 20245 Oct 202419:00House of the Blackheads, White HallCollaboration

    Hommage à Kaija Saariaho

    The concert is dedicated to the acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (14 October 1952 to 2 June 2023), who died last year, who visited Estonia on several occasions herself and kept in contact and exchanged ideas…

84. 3 October 20243 Oct 202419:00ECCMImprotest

    Improtest: Kristin Kuldkepp

    Kris Kuldkepp is a Hamburg-based performer of experimental music and a performance artist.

85. 30 September 202430 Sept 202417:30House of the Blackheads, White Hall

    Open rehearsal of Helena Tulve's new work "Vers l'autre clarté".

    Together with musicians of the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Ansambel U: and ensemble EMA and conductor Kaspar Mänd, the working process on the piece is presented to open up the background of the new work.

86. 22 September 202422 Sept 202418:00ECCMCollaboration

    SCHOENBERG RESIDENCY. Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi

    Since 2007 the Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society has offered composers, performers and musicologists the chance to carry out their artistic plans and to develop collaboration with Estonian composers, performers and…