Kaspar Mänd

(conductor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Kaspar Mänd is a conductor with the Estonian National Opera since 2014, where he has conducted approximately 50 stage works, including Wagner’s “Lohengrin”, Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande”, Verdi’s “Il trovatore”, “La traviata”, “Giovanna d’Arco”, Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortileges”, Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”, numerous ballets, operettas and musicals.

He graduated from Old Town Educational College and Music School, having studied the Oboe with Kalev Kuljus and Aleksander Hännikäinen, and the Choral Conducting class of Hirvo Surva. In 2012, he graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (the Choral Conducting Class of Prof. Hirvo Surva) and in 2014 he received his postgraduate degree in Orchestral Conducting (Prof. Paul Mägi). He has studied conducting at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) with Prof. Zsolt Nagy and participated in the Järvi Summer Academy (2009, 2011, 2013) and attended the master-classes of Eri Klas and Risto Joost. In 2009, he founded the Mixed Choir HUIK! and in 2011–14, he was the Chief Conductor of the Chamber Choir Voces Musicales. In 2016, he founded the New Street Orchestra, with whom he performed all the symphonies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. In 2019–2023, he was the Chief Conductor of the Pärnu City Orchestra. In 2018–2022, he taught conducting at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. 

Kaspar Mänd has conducted Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonics, Irish National Opera Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, YXUS Ensemble among other orchestras. In January 2024, he established Ludensemble, a music ensemble dedicated to performing new music.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Kaspar Mänd has won the Annual Award of Cultural Endowment of Estonia in the category of music in 2021 and the Estonian National Opera Colleague Award in 2016 and 2023.

Music director at the Estonian National Opera: 
Aints/Wimberg’s musical “Karlsson on the Roof” (2015)
Meckler/Ochoa/Salem’s ballet “A Streetcar Named Desire” (2017)
Manfred MIM’s opera “Estonian History. A Nation Born of Shock” (2018) 
Ehala’s musical “Buratino” (2018)
Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” (2019)
Kesler’s “Anna Karenina” (2020)
Lehár’s “The Count of Luxembourg” (2020)
Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” (2021)
Kaumann/Keller’s “The Three Jolly Fellows” (2022)
“Black / White: Kozielska’s “Open Door” and Lifar’s “Suite en blanc” (2023)
Kander’s “Cabaret” (2024)
Ullmann’s “Der Keiser von Atlantis” (2024, in cooperation with Von Krahl Theatre)
Grib/Kruusmaa’s “Light from the End of the World” (2024)

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