Ines Maidre
Ines Maidre is a brightly individual concert organist from Estonia. As a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music, she holds soloist diplomas of piano and organ with the highest distinctions. In 1991 her postgraduate studies with Daniel Roth in Paris were crowned with a Prix d’excellence avec les félicitations du jury and at the Concours Musicale d’Ile de France in 1991 she won the First Prize of organ playing.

After her first recitals in Paris and London in 1990 Ines Maidre was acclaimed by “The Musical Times” (London) as one of the most promising organist of the younger generation. Since then she has performed throughout Europe, appearing at Notre-Dame, St Sulpice and Madeleine in Paris, Westminster Abbey in London, St Bavo in Haarlem, St John in Hertogenbosch, Altenberger Dom, Rigas Dome Church and numerous prestigious international festivals like in Nuremberg, Brussels, Schleswig-Holstein, Antwerpen, Rotterdam, Tallinn and Bergen. In 2008 she went on her first concert tour to Latin America appearing in festivals in Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Paysandu.

Ines Maidre’s virtuosity and passionate musicianship, combined with exquisite stylistic taste and outstanding art of registration have always been emphasized by the critics. An excellent interpreter of early keyboard music as well as a virtuoso performer of romantic and modern organ works she offers varied and exciting programs for all types of organs from her vast repertoire. In her passion to introduce organ music to a broader audience, Ines Maidre has created several original programs with a special thematic focus, such as “Bells in the Organ”, “Swan Songs for the Organ”, “Cathedral Windows”, “In Bach’s Footsteps”, “Legends in St Nicholas”, “Litany of the Dance”, “Tangomania” etc, which have remarkably increased the number of organ loving audience at her recitals and granted her a special prize by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Thanks to her great pianistic skills Ines Maidre has made it to the stage with performances of major chamber music works by Mozart, Franck, Schumann, Prokofiev, Messiaen a.o. After completing her musical training with a masters degree in Baroque interpretation and harpsichord playing and concluding her studies with the thesis “New Horizons in Frescobaldi’s Toccata Style” she has performed regularly with the Baroque ensemble Musica Celines. www.cecilie-musikk.com/m_celines. Under the baton of great conductors like Neeme Järvi, Martin Fischer-Dieskau, Tõnu Kaljuste, Fabio Ventura and Leo Krämer she has played a number of organ concertos and great symphonic works (Händel, Poulenc, Jongen, Kapp, Lepnurm, Tobias, Saint-Saëns).

Besides her performing career she has been teaching the organ at the Estonian Music Academy and is now an associate professor of organ at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. Her scholarly activities also include giving masterclasses and writing a book about the life and works of the eminent Estonian organ composer Peeter Süda (1883-1920) (EMIC 2005 - www.emic.ee) as well as performing all his major works in a TV film.

Her broad range of musical activities also include several recordings of organ music: Bells in the Organ (popular carillons for the organ), Hommage à la Cathedrale (works by Henry Mulet and Odile Pierre), Cantus nordicus (pearls from the nordic repertoire), as well as the complete organ works of the Estonian composers Rudof Tobias (Forte), Anti Marguste (Antes) and Peeter Süda (Carillon Music) which are distributed internationally and are available on the internet shop of Fagott Orgelverlag: fagott-online.com/shop/index.


Web site: www.inesmaidre.com
E-mail: ines.maidre@gmail.com