TÜÜR’S VIOLA CONCERTO IN ESTONIA

February 20, 2009 at 7 pm — Tallinn, Estonia Concert Hall

20. February 19.00 – Tallinn, Estonia Concert Hall

Brahms – Tragic Overture
Haydn – Symphony No 104 in D major London
Sibelius – The Swan of Tuonela
Tüür – Illuminatio, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (Estonian premiere)

Lars Anders Tomter (viola, Norway)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor OLARI ELTS

Erkki-Sven Tüür has written his Viola Concerto for Lars Anders Tomter, one of the world’s leading viola virtuosos whom The Strad magazine called ’the Giant of the Nordic Viola’. Lars Anders Tomter has studied the violin as well as the viola and continued his education under Sándor Végh and Max Rostal. The list of conductors and orchestras he has performed with is impressive. In addition, he works as a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
The highly successful world premier of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Viola Concerto took place on October 23, 2008 in Sønderborg, Denmark, where it was performed by Lars Anders Tomter and one of the commissioners of the concerto – South Jutland Symphony Orchestra conducted by its chief conductor Vladimir Ziva. The co-commissioners of the concerto are NDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lille and ERSO.

Tickets: 180.-, 120.- (70.-)
The concert is produced by ERSO

Lars Anders Tomter