LAURI SIRP

Lauri Sirp graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 1993 in the field of choir conducting in the class of Kuno Areng and in 2002 in the field of orchestral conducting in the class of Jüri Alperten.

He has participated in the master classes of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jorma Panula and Peter Gülke.

Since August 1993 he has worked in the Vanemuine. He has conducted almost all of the productions in the repertoire of the Vanemuine, also many symphony concerts and the concert performance of Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia. Lauri Sirp has assisted Maestro Carlo Felice Cillario in preparing his concerts and operas in Tartu.

The performances staged in the Vanemuine: Menotti’s The Telephone, Massenet'’s Don Quixote, Verdi’s Falstaff, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Handel’s Xerxes and Acis and Galatea, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Ravel’s The Spanish Hour and Boléro, Lortzing’s The Poacher, ballet for Chopin’s music Chopiniana, Minkus’s Quiteria`s Wedding and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adam`s Giselle, Offenbach`s The Tales of Hoffmann, Tchaikovsky’s ballet Onegin, Verdi’s Rigoletto.

He has conducted the following performances: Leoncavallo’s The Clowns, Verdi La Traviata and A Masked Ball, Puccini’s La Bohème and Madame Butterfly, Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville, Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio and Cosi fan tutte, Tchaikovsky’s Jevgeni Onegin, Prokofjev’s Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, and Bernstein’s West Side Story, Grieg`s Peer Gynt.

Lauri Sirp has worked with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra and Mikkeli City Orchestra. Since spring 2003 he has conducted performances in the Estonian National Opera.