First Advent concert: Tallinn Boys’ Choir in Jõgeva

First Advent concert. Performed by the Tallinn Boys’ Choir, conducted by artistic director and chief conductor Lydia Rahula. Conductor Kuno Kerge, accompanist Tomi Rahula.

The Tallinn Boys’ Choir was founded in 1988 by Lydia Rahula. Around a hundred boys sing in the studio. The concert choir is a classic boys’ and men’s choir (SATB) of 10–15-year-old boys and young men over 16, with 40–50 singers in the concert line-up for each programme. Many boys learn to play an instrument, and most sing from sight. The repertoire ranges from chorales to vocal polyphony, and from Estonian music to spirituals. Working with internationally recognised conductors and orchestras, the choir has performed large-scale works by Beethoven, Honegger, Saint-Saëns, Bach, Mozart and others. In 2019 they sang Bach’s St John Passion on Palm Sunday, and in 2018 and 2019 the same work at St Charles’ Church in Tallinn under Andres Mustonen. Choir boys have taken part in several productions at the Estonian National Opera, including Verdi’s Don Carlos and Puccini’s La bohème.

The choir has toured 30 countries abroad, several of them many times, including Europe, Japan, Thailand, China, Canada and the USA. It has sung with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the American boys’ choir, among others. It has won prizes at international choir competitions in Vienna, Tolosa and Rimini, and four Grand Prix awards from Tampere, Olomouc, Moscow and Malta. Its concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in several countries, and the choir has made four CDs and two DVDs.

Tickets: €10 / €15.

Time and place: 29 November 2026, 17:00, Jõgeva Culture Centre, Aia 6, Jõgeva.