The Patron of the 27th Rapla Church Music Festival is the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church URMAS VIILMA
XXVI Rapla Church Music Festival’s headliner is RAM!
From 26th of July 2018 through 5th of August a multitude of distinguished Estonian musicians and outside guests will perform in bigger and smaller churches of Rapla County. The festival is a meeting place for good music, Estonia’s beautiful churches and dim summer evenings. The organizer of the Rapla Church Music Festival which is taking place for the 26th year already is PLMF Music Trust. /---/
The main sponsors of the festival in
2019 are Akzo Nobel and Harviker!
The main presenter of the festival 2019 is:
TALLINN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
The opening concert will take place on the
27 of June at 7 p.m at the Rapla Maarja-Magdalena church co-hosting the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor Risto Joost
Thu 27th of June
Rapla church at 7 p.m
THE OPENING CONCERT
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Conductor Risto Joost
Programme: Tõnu Kõrvits "Sei la luce e il mattino"
Tickets 15€/10€
The concert will be preceded by a conversation-meeting at 6 PM with composer Tõnu Kõrvits
Fri 28th of June
Kehtna church at 7 p.m
TRUMPET-PARADE
Neeme Ots, Aarne Ots,
Villem Endel Tiits, Mattis Johan Mere
Programme: Bach, Gershwin, Verdi ect
Tickets 7€/5€
Sun 30th of June
Käru church at 7 p.m
PILGRIMAGE
Oliver Kuusik (tenore)
Virgo Veldi (saxophone)
Tiia Tenno (organ)
Programme: Rachmaninoff, Kõrvits, Grigorjeva ect
Tickets 7€/5€
Tue 2nd of July
Järvakandi church at 7 p.m
AVE MARIA
Kristina Vähi (soprano)
Tiina Kärblane (piano)
Poetry reads Margus Prangel
Programme: Schubert, Luzzi, Gomez etc
Tickets 7€/5€
Wed 3rd of July
Rapla Church NB! at 8 p.m
PRAISE TO THE LORD
Ott Indermitte (baritone)
Liis-Helena Väljamäe (violin)
Hille Poroson (organ)
Programme: Lepnurm, Karindi, Uibo, Raid
Free entrance
Tue 9th of July
Vahastu church at 7 p.m
EVENING WITH ARGENTIINA
Massimiliano Viapiano (baritone, Italy)
and a chamber ensemble:
Sigrid Kuulmann (violin)
Kristina Kriit (violin)
Toomas Nestor (viola)
Andreas Lend (cello)
Johannes Sarapuu (cello)
Janel Altroff (double bass)
Madis Kari (clarnet)
Tiina Kärblane (piano)
Programme: Piazzolla tangos
Tickets 12€/7€
Wed 11th of July
Rapla church at 7 p.m
EUROPEAN GALA
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin, Karlsruhe Hochschule für Musik/Purcell School/Junior Guildhall School, Estonia/Finland)
Jonathan Morton (violin, Scottish Ensemble/London Sinfonietta, UK),
Frøydis de Damas (viola, Trondheim Soloists/Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norra), Emanuel Wehse (cello, Kassel Academy of Music, Germany) and
YOUNG TALENTS
Programme: music by world composers
Tickets 7€/5€
Fri 12th of July
Velise church at 7 p.m
EATH AND SEA REJOICE
Ensemble TRISKELE
Programme Estonian Folk Hymns and Songs of Moravian Bretheren
Tickets 7€/5€
Sat 13th July
Vigala church at 7 p.m
ORATORY AND OPERA GALA
Pille Lill (soprano),
Massimiliano Viapiano (baritone, Italy),
Singers
of the International Vocalists
Summer School
Tiina Kärblane (piano)
Programme: oratorio and opera arias
Tickets 7€/5€
Sun 14th of July
Rapla church at 7 p.m
AND I HEARD A VOICE
VOX CLAMANTIS
conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve
Programme: Machaut, Dunstable, Pärt etc
Tickets 15€/10€
The concert will be preceded by a
conversation-meeting
at 6 p.m by Archbishop Urmas Viilma, the patron of the Festival