Two Concerts at Estonian Music Days, April 2026
Quiet Music Ensemble will play in Estonia for the first time next month, with two concerts at Estonian Music Days. In venues in Tallinn and Tartu, the ensemble will play new commissions by Estonian composers Liisa Hõbepappel and Märt-Matis Lill, and works by Irish composers Karen Power and Anna Murray.
This year’s festival is based around the theme of stories - from the festival website:
Man is a narrative being; we make sense of the world through stories. Stories are like an axis, a driving force through which we love, hate, wage war, build, and create… musical stories reached us first; they are something we need, something we still long for and reach out to find.
Sat 19 April, 16.00
Arvo Pärt Centre, Tallinn
Liisa Hõbepappel: Studies on a the theme of something delicate
Karen Power: works from Human Nature
10. if trees had bellies
11. a frog and gecko moment from Australia
Märt-Matis Lill: 3 Songs of Doggerland
Karen Power: works from Human Nature
2. underwater frogs of Angkor Wat
14. beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb
Anna Murray: my little Force explodes
Karen Power: works from Human Nature
18. unique ecosystem of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park
Sat 18 April, 18.00
University of Tartu Museum, White Hall
Liisa Hõbepappel: Studies on a the theme of something delicate
Karen Power: works from Human Nature
10. if trees had bellies
11. a frog and gecko moment from Australia
Märt-Matis Lill: 3 Songs of Doggerland
Anna Murray: my little Force explodes
Karen Power: works from Human Nature
18. unique ecosystem of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park
About the Programme
A Study on the Theme of Something Delicate is a piece for self-playing sound objects and improvising ensemble, in which a fragile, mechanically activated sound world unfolds alongside role-based human interaction. Rather than producing musical material, the performers engage through listening, care, and subtle intervention, allowing the sonic environment to emerge as a shared, evolving ecology. - Liisa Hõbepappel
Doggerland was a landmass in the southern North Sea that connected the islands of Ireland and Great Britain to mainland Europe. This ancient land gradually disappeared under water due to rising sea levels and a megatsunami that supposedly occurred about 6,200 years ago. I tried to create a sound image of what the songs that the people who lived there once heard and sang might have been like. Perhaps on some special calm day, in certain places on the east coast of Great Britain, with an open mind, you can quietly-quietly still hear those old Doggerland songs. - Märt-Matis Lill
Quiet Music Ensemble is supported by Culture Ireland.
QME Players
Caitriona Finnegan, cello
John Godfrey, e-guitar & electronics, co-director
Anna Murray, co-director
Alexis Nealon, sound engineer
Colm O’Hara, trombone
Deirdre O’Leary, clarinet
Michelle O’Rourke, voice