Mati Turi

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Mati Turi graduated from the choral conducting class of Prof. Ants Üleoja at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He also studied singing with Prof. Jaakko Ryhänen. He worked at the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir from 1992–2004 and since 2005 has pursued a free-lance musician’s career. Since 2009, Mati Turi has won recognition on European opera venues as a Wagner-tenor. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mati Turi has won the Annual Estonian Cultural Endowment Award (2002), Estonian Music Council Award and the Annual Estonian Cultural Endowment Award (2012) as well as the Georg Ots Award (2018).

REPERTOIRE
Tannhäuser (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)
Erik (Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer”)
Kalev (Puur’s “The Colours of Clouds”)
Parsifal (Wagner’s “Parsifal”, Chemnitz Opera) 
Siegfried (Wagner’s “Siegfried”, Opera North) 
Siegfried (Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung”, Longborough Opera Festival and Nationale Reisopera in Holland)
René (Lehár’s “The Count of Luxembourg”)
Paul (Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”, Finnish National Opera, Estonian National Opera)
Don José (Bizet’s “Carmen”, Kokkola Opera) 
Alwa (Berg’s “Lulu”, Kokkola Opera)
Mefistófeles (Busoni’s “Doktor Faust”, Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater)
Wallenberg 2 (Tüür’s “Wallenberg”)
Aristaeus/Pluto (Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”)
Among others, in Haydn’s operas at the Nargen Opera.

He makes regular performances in major vocal-symphonic works, such as Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde”, J. S. Bach’s Passions, Händel’s oratorios and Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers”. With his long-time chamber music partner pianist Martti Raide, Mati Turi has performed and recorded music of Mahler, Wolf, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Sibelius, Mart Saar and the composers Kapp.