The album “A Forgotten Day,” featuring author songs and poems by well-known poets, reflects on life in all its emotional shades, speaking of longing, hope, disappointment, pain, and joy, but above all, love. “Since the beginning of time, the theme of loneliness, the need for understanding and love has touched people. Today, this need is… Continue reading
Peeter Prints’ (1961) sheet music publication “Ballads, Preludes, Arias, Etudes, Blues” is likely familiar to all classical guitar students in Estonia from the beginning of the 1990s until now. The enduring interest in Prints’ music cannot be explained simply by the fact that there is a lack of printed music by Estonian authors for classical… Continue reading
For two days I was asked to help my friend Maria, who runs a flamenco school in Tallinn. We have been performing together for a few years but this time she asked me to participate in her special Farruca-class to accompany her students. Usually they practise with music from CDs so it was a special… Continue reading
For two days I was asked to help my friend Maria, who runs a flamenco school in Tallinn. We have been performing together for a few years but this time she asked me to participate in her special Farruca-class to accompany her students. Usually they practise with music from CDs so it was a special… Continue reading
Kristo plays the Impressao de Rua by Isaias Savio in his garden.
Yesterday I performed a dance program with Maria Rääk (dance, castagnets, clapping, choreography) and Reigo Ahven (cajon) at the Haapsalu Kuursaal (look at the second picture). The program was partly same as my Dance Album tracklist but we’ve taken everything non-Spanish as this show was a total Spanish romantic era program. We played: Turina Fandanguillo… Continue reading
There has been several live concerts with the dance project this summer but the one in the Meder’s hall in Tallinn is again something to talk about. It was organized by the Estonian National Concert and the hall is a special venue that they discovered and restored recently. The hall is in the building of… Continue reading
So far I have got some friendly feedback from radio stations that have played my “Dance Album” and I would like to share them here. This is a quatation from Nick Peros’s letter to me and I hope he doesn’t mind if I share it here because I get nowadays many people contacting me to… Continue reading
As I said before – on my own I sent my CD to many European classical music radio stations but in North America the job was done by Phoenix Classical and these are the stations that got my album: CBC Radio Music – NIGHSTREAM, Toronto, ON CBC RADIO MUSIC – TEMPO, Ottawa, ON Classical 96,… Continue reading
That is part of the material that went out with my Dance Album to the radio stations. It is always good to get somebody else to write your BIO 🙂 I have almost got used to see my last name without the dots, actually it is KÄO. KRISTO KAO – BIO Classical guitarist Kristo Kao… Continue reading