Bravo!

BRAVO! CONCERT SERIES
ERSO’s Radiant Soloists

In the “BRAVO!” concert series, five brilliant soloists from ERSO step into the spotlight, offering the audience a fresh and engaging insight into classical music.

At the series’ opening concert in January, Sarah D’Amico will perform Carl Reinecke’s romantic Harp Concerto on her enchanting instrument. The evening is conducted by Giordano Bellincampi, a long-time friend of both ERSO and Estonian audiences. In addition to the harp concerto, the program features Johannes Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, which includes the delight of a familiar student song, known locally as the folk tune Mu isamaa armas. The concert’s romantic atmosphere is brought to a brilliant conclusion by Felix Mendelssohn’s grand Scottish Symphony.

The protagonist of the March concert is cellist Indrek Leivategija, performing as the soloist in Antonín Dvořák’s immensely popular Cello Concerto. The evening is conducted by the Netherlands-based Marc Albrecht, whose extensive experience in music theatre will bring to life the powerful operatic overtures of Richard Wagner.

In April, ERSO’s own brilliant soloists, violinist Triin Ruubel and cellist Theodor Sink, join forces on stage. Their engaging creative dialogue breathes life into a true monument of music history: Johannes Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello. Conducted by Chief Conductor Olari Elts, the program also features a new work by London-based Estonian composer Mihkel Kerem and Jean Sibelius’s romantic Symphony No. 1.

The fourth concert of the series in late April brings percussionist Vambola Krigul to the stage to premiere a brand-new composition by his brother, composer Ülo Krigul. Conductor Kristiina Poska has also programmed another contemporary work, Elis Hallik’s Transience, which seeks to capture fleeting beauty through music. Representing the golden repertoire of the classics, the concert will conclude with Franz Schubert’s magnificent Symphony No. 9.