Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Standard £30 // Solidarity £39 // Kirklees Resident £28 // Under 30 £10
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Estimated end time: 8.45pm

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn:
Maria Lume flutes
Soo-Young Lee clarinets
Talvi Hunt piano/keyboard
Toomas Hendrik Ellervee violin
Talvi Nurgamaa viola
Paul-Gunnar Loorand cello
Madis Jürgens double bass

Arash Yazdani conductor

Soloist:
Katariin Raska torupill (Estonian bagpipe)

William Dougherty (USA, 1988)
empty cisterns and exhausted wells (2025) 15’ UK Premiere

Pasquale Corrado (Italy, 1979)
Ozone (2018) 10’

Justina Repečkaitė (Lithuania, 1989)
Millefleur (2025) 10’ UK Premiere

Liisa Hirsch (Estonia, 1984)
Liiv’s “Code” (2025) 13’ UK Premiere

Arash Yazdani (Iran, 1985)
Sharveh (2025) 15’ UK Premiere

One of the Baltic region’s leading contemporary music ensembles, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (ENMT) brings a programme of recent works that place the distinctive sound of the traditional Estonian bagpipe – or torupill – in a contemporary music context.

Winners of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize 2026, ENMT has earned an international reputation for its adventurous programming and commitment to new music. For this special project, the ensemble is joined by torupill player Katariin Raska, exploring how an instrument rooted in Estonia’s rural and medieval traditions can open new possibilities within contemporary composition.

The programme brings together composers from across Europe and North America, each with a wildly different approach and musical language. New works by William Dougherty, Justina Repečkaitė, Liisa Hirsch and conductor-composer Arash Yazdani sit alongside Pasquale Corrado’s Ozone, creating a rich and varied landscape of sounds and ideas.

Across the programme, the torupill emerges not as a historical curiosity but as a living, expressive instrument whose distinctive timbre and microtonal possibilities inspire fresh musical encounters. The result is a concert that connects tradition and experimentation, local heritage and international contemporary practice.

Produced by hcmf// as part of Music Traditions in a Contemporary Context; supported by Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music, Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania; also supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Liiv’s “Code” and Sharveh are commissioned by Ensemble for New Music Tallinn with the kind support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation