MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Risto Joost is a prominent figure among the younger generation of Estonian conductors. He has appeared widely with orchestras around the Baltic countries and beyond, and he is noted for his work in technically challenging contemporary music.
Joost was born in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, then part of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1980. He began music lessons at age six and, after showing unusual talent, was enrolled in a special music school in Tallinn. Joost attended the Estonian Academy of Music, studying orchestral and choral conducting as well as voice (he is a countertenor). For graduate study, he attended the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and then earned a master's degree from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2008. In Stockholm, he studied with the noted conductor and teacher Jorma Panula. In 2010, Joost made his recording debut on the Estonian Record Productions label, leading his new group, Voces Musicales, in a performance of Arvo Pärt's Pilgrim's Song.
Joost won prizes at the Jorma Panula Conducting Competition in 2012 and the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Denmark in 2015. Those honors led to appearances with various ensembles around northern Europe, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, where he served as the artistic director from 2015 to 2019. Joost has also served as the artistic director of the Tallinn Philharmonic Society and has directed Estonia's Birgitta Festival. He is a co-founder of the music theater ensemble Kamber. Joost has a large repertory of operas and serves as the conductor-in-residence at the Estonian National Opera.
In 2020, he became the music director and chief conductor at the Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu, Estonia. Joost is active on recordings as both an orchestral and a choral conductor. He has made several recordings of music by composers Arvo Pärt and Tõnu Kõrvits but has also conducted Western European music, such as Gounod's Requiem, with the Berlin Radio Chorus. Several of his recordings were made with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, of which he served as chief conductor from 2013 to 2019; with that ensemble, he released two albums of Kõrvits' music on the Ondine label in 2020 and returned with that composer's The Sound of Wings in 2023. By that time, his recording catalog comprised more than 20 items.
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Rachmaninov : All-Night Vigil
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Klaudia Zeiner, Falk Hoffmann, Risto Joost
Musique vocale sacrée - Paru chez Genuin le 21 juil. 2017
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Heinrich Schütz: Psalmen und Motetten
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Solo Musica le 4 nov. 2022
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Confessions of Faith: Choral Concertos by Bortniansky & Schnittke
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Dorothea Sprenger, Risto Joost, Alba Vilar-Juanola, Kim Jae-Hyong, Falk Hoffmann
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Genuin le 27 janv. 2017
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Johannes Brahms : Ein deutsches Requiem, op.45
Anna Lucia Richter, Stephan Genz, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Marin Alsop
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Naxos le 5 août 2013
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Weihnachtslieder aus Deutschland und aller Welt
Classique - Paru chez Genuin le 30 oct. 2015
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Œuvres orchestrales (Volume 2)
Orchestre National De Lyon, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Jun Märkl
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 1 janv. 2008
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Christmas Songs from Germany & All Over the World, Vol. 2
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Philipp Ahmann, Unknown Artist
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Genuin le 6 oct. 2017
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Geistliche Gesänge
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Classique - Paru chez Querstand le 19 oct. 2016
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Symphonie n°2 "Lobgesang"
Ruth Ziesak, Mojca Erdmann, Christian Elsner, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Jun Märkl
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 1 déc. 2010
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MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 (Norrington)
Sibylla Rubens, Iris Vermillion, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington
Classique - Paru chez SWR Classic le 1 janv. 2006
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Maderna: Requiem
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 25 sept. 2015
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Daphnis et Chloé
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Orchestre National De Lyon, Jun Märkl
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 6 avr. 2009
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Ruzicka: Orchestra Works, Vol. 3
MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter, Peter Ruzicka, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Leipzig Horn Quartet
Classique - Paru chez NEOS Music le 1 mars 2015
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Silcher, F.: Ich Ging Einmal Spazieren / Schumann, R.: Es Wollt Ein Jagerlein Jagen / 5 Gesange Aus H. Laubes Jagdbrevier
Leipzig Horn Quartet, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Fernando Günther, Howard Arman
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 1 janv. 2003
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Classic Moods - Schubert, F. / Brahms, J. / David, F. / Beethoven, L. Van / Wolf, H. / Mahler, G. / Mendelssohn, Felix / Aby, F.W. / Reyer, E.
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 1 janv. 2004
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