The first ever Classical Music Rave in the Nordic countries will take place within Tallinn Music Week

TALLINN MUSIC WEEK PRESS RELEASE 17.03.2015 

The first ever Classical Music Rave in the Nordic countries will take place within Tallinn Music Week


Groove to Gershwin, drink with Dvorak and headbang on Beethoven!

The newly opened Hall of Cauldrons of Tallinn Creative Hub, a 100-year-old power plant, is hosting the first ever Classical Music Rave in the Nordic countries on 27th March. The creator of the Classical Music Rave Brendan Jan Walsh, composer-producer Valgeir Sigurdsson, BBC3 radio host Nick Luscombe, founder of Death in Vegas Steve Hellier and Estonia’s Aivar Tõnso and Sander Mölder will play DJ-sets of classical music and Estonian composers' work. They will be joined by the impro-group Algorütmid and female chamber choir Sireen. Moe 1886 presents the classical music rave.

The founder of the classical music rave is Belgian cellist, conductor, lecturer, entrepreneur, music innovator and “one-man-revolution” Brendan Jan Walsh. Fed up with the traditional way of consuming classical music – pompous concert halls full of snobs nailed to the seats, Walsh has made it his mission to prove that classical music offers more than just the intellectual challenge and is actually great dance music.
“The Classical Music Rave is exactly what it claims to be – all elements of a great party including whopping sound & light in an industrial venue with excellent DJ’s playing and remixing, and in vogue people dancing to, yes – classical music!” says Walsh.

Walsh started this movement of classical mutiny with a mind-blowing all-nighter in a huge factory in Amsterdam in 2013 The raves are spreading to cities as Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Guadalajara, New York, London, Berlin, Antwerp, and now Tallinn.

The first ever event of its kind in the Nordic countries is a collaboration with TMW on Friday, 27th March in the suitably industrial setting of the former power plant, Tallinn Creative Hub. As a cherry on the cake, at least half of the music played will be by Estonian composers. The line-up of DJs includes the renowned producer and owner of Bedroom Community label, Valgeir Sigurdsson, known for his work from Björk to Brian Eno; the restless musical soul Nick Luscombe, a prolific radio host and DJ, known from BBC Radio3 to Resonance FM; Steve Hellier, the founding member of Death in Vegas, the DJ-duo behind the Classical Music Rave concept, Mengel & Berg (Brendan Jan Walsh and the Dutch classics expert Arthur Gumbs), and the talented Estonians – classically trained cellist, producer and DJ Sander Mölder and record label owner, producer and DJ Aivar Tõnso. Chamber Choir Sireen and electronic impro-group Algorütmid will offer a special live-collaboration. The beautiful and talented sirens and abstract rhythm masters will combine two rather opposite musical languages – synthesized sounds and skilfully arranged human voices, offering the audience some ambient floating and true weekend party acrobatics at the same time.

Classical Music Rave will take place on 27th March at 22:00 in Tallinn Creative Hub.

Tickets are available at 7€ on Piletilevi, at 10€ at the door.

Pictures to download:

Classical Music Rave poster https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallinnmusicweek/16656187210/
Brendan Jan Walsh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallinnmusicweek/16842873702/
Algorütmid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallinnmusicweek/8465156715
Chember Choir Sireen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallinnmusicweek/16410853356

TMW festival passes for 55€ are on sale at tmw.ee. The TMW festival pass/wristband gives access to all festival concerts on 26th, 27th and 28th March and offers discounts at all sub festival events.

Tallinn Music Week 2015 is presented by Nordea Bank, supported by EMT and Elion, the partners are Wire, Tuborg, Info-Auto, Tallink, Delfi, Viru Keskus and Red Bull. The festival centre and official hotel is Nordic Hotel Forum. Tallinn Music week conference is supported by Embassy of the United States, Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, and Estonian Ministry of Culture, Tallinn City Enterprise Department, Estonian Cultural Endowment and Music Estonia. Tallinn Music Week is supported by European Regional Development Fund.

Special hotel packages are available for festival pass buyers, book on tmw.ee.

TMW official conversations are on Wire. The TMW artist award, the Wire Prize will be given to the Estonian artist with the most promising international breakthrough, selected by the music industry delegates. Sign up on www.wire.com and join the TMW Wire chat: tmw@wire.com


Additional information:
Maris Hellrand
Tallinn Music Week international communication
+372 56201118
maris@tmw.ee

Brendan Jan Walsh
+31 6 8180 9993
bjw@classicalmusicrave.com
www.classicalmusicrave.com