Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja - Kadri Ploompuu, organ Tallin Toom Estonia

Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja

Sunday July 21st at 17hrs
Kadri Ploompuu, organ Tallin Toom Estonia
Tickets are available at Hallgrímskirkja and on tix.is
Admission ISK 3.700

Kadri Ploompuu graduated from the Tallinn Georg Ots Music High School in 1979 as a pianist and organist and in 1985 from the Tallinn State Conservatoire, where she studied
piano and organ with professors Lilian Semper and Hugo Lepnurm.

She has worked as a concertmaster and organ teacher at the Tallinn Georg Ots Music High School, later as an organ teacher at the EELC Church Music School and as both an organ teacher and the head of the Department of Church Music at the EELC Institute of Theology. She is a board member of the EELC Church Music Association since 2010.

Kadri Ploompuu has been working as an organist at the Tallinn Cathedral since 1990. In addition, in 2013 she started working as the church’s music manager. The vibrant musical life
of the Cathedral is therefore hers to organise, including the weekly Saturday organ recitals – concerts that have been ongoing more than for 30 years in a row and the larger number of
which have been performed by her.

Kadri Ploompuu has performed both as a solo artist and as a chamber musician in churches all over Estonia, having also given concerts in various European countries (in Germany, the
United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Latvia, Russia and Finland). She has participated in the Tallinn and Pärnu Organ Festivals and the Visby Organ Week as well.

In 2004 Kadri Ploompuu published her first solo CD, recorded on the organ of the Tallinn Cathedral. This was followed in 2013 by the CD „Strings of the Soul“ from the trio
„Armonia“ (with Oksana Sinkova, flute, and Alina Sakalouskaya, mandolin) and in 2014 by the CD “Tallinn Cathedral organ. 100 Years of Ladegast-Sauer organ” (with the organist
Piret Aidulo). In 2017 she, together with the violinist Urmas Vulp, released her fourth recording, this one containing music by Max Reger.