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Welcome to the Pärnu Music Festival – Estonia’s summer-camp for the musical architects of tomorrow.   World-famous top soloists, a spectacular concert programme, and conductors Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Kristjan Järvi will bring unforgettable musical experiences to Pärnu from 8–18 July 2026. The world premieres of new works by Estonian composers heard from the Pärnu…

Violinist, violist, conductor, member of the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt am Main and the Hába Quartet, co-founder and director of the Orchestral Academy of the hr-Sinfonieorchester, organizer, presenter. Since 2016, he has been a regular participant in the festival in Pärnu, repeatedly voted the most popular member of the festival orchestra by his colleagues. A friend,…

2025-07-22The Pärnu Music Festival has a lot to offer that others don’t. And I don’t just mean the opportunity to combine the summer pleasures of a beautiful sandy beach and spas with culture, but a phenomenon called the Estonian Festival Orchestra. This is the creation of conductor Paavo Järvi. He wanted to create something similar…

Nearly 13,000 concertgoers attended the XIV Pärnu Music Festival over ten days, and during the festival, the Pärnu Music Festival TV web broadcasts were watched by 19,081 unique viewers from 72 countries.

“The sense of the world’s wholeness often tends to be lost in contemporary times, and Erkki-Sven Tüür’s music powerfully counterbalances this tendency towards fragmentation…” commented jury chair Helena Tulve on the jury’s decision.

A series of interviews conducted by the Estonian national broadcasting company’s classical radio, Klassikaraadio, with this year’s participants and distinguished soloists during the festival. The interviews offer deep insights into the artists’ experiences and perspectives, enriching our understanding of their performances.

The opportunity to study under the guidance of world-famous conductors Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi and Kristjan Järvi, as well as Paavo Järvi’s teacher Leonid Grin, tempts young musicians from all over the world to participate in the conducting course of the Järvi Academy of the Pärnu Music Festival. Similarly, master classes for young players of…

13. July Jüri Reinvere’s Album „Ship of Fools“ (Alpha Classics, 2024) was presented at the Pärnu Music Festival. Paavo Järvi’s latest album with the Estonian Festival Orchestra features three of his recent works, all of which were premiered in Pärnu in the recent years. The collaboration began in 2016 with Reinvere’s delicately playful Concerto for…

The 14th Pärnu Music Festival kicks off on July 10, bringing Estonia to the forefront of the classical music world with an outstanding international concert programme. This year, the festival boasts a record number of participants, featuring 400 musicians from both home and abroad. Opening the festival, maestro Neeme Järvi will conduct the Järvi Academy Youth Symphony…

World premiere performance 15 July – Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi ”As in 2016 and 2018, Paavo Järvi approached me with the request to write a new orchestral piece for him and the Estonian Festival Orchestra. I was happy, but also thought long and hard about what kind of piece this could be. Then the idea…

WORKS BY TUBIN, LUTOSLAWSKI & BACEWICZ RECORDED LIVE AT THE PÄRNU MUSIC FESTIVAL For their latest recording on Alpha Classics (release date 23 June), Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra celebrate composers from Estonia and Poland. Two nations closely connected by their history and the corridor imposed on them by 20th century occupation, which resulted in…

The Järvi Academy will visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa for the first time This summer, a concert lecture using a new format will take place in co-operation between the Arvo Pärt Centre and the Järvi Academy, where participants of the course as well as the public can become acquainted with the history of…

“At the heart of what we wanted to achieve a decade ago was to give Estonian music and musicians an international platform. It’s wonderful to see that we have achieved this on so many levels – from the young students who participate in the Youth Orchestra and Sinfonietta to the professional musicians who form a…