A graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, Ines Maidre holds soloist diplomas of both piano and organ with the highest distinctions. After her postgraduate studies in Paris with Daniel Roth, she embarked on her soloist career appearing at prestigious cathedrals and festivals all over Europe, in the USA and in Latin America, playing organ recitals and giving lectures. As a harpsichord player she frequently performs together with her early music ensemble Musica Celines. Her collaboration with variuos soloists…
A graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, Ines Maidre holds soloist diplomas of both piano and organ with the highest distinctions. After her postgraduate studies in Paris with Daniel Roth, she embarked on her soloist career appearing at prestigious cathedrals and festivals all over Europe, in the USA and in Latin America, playing organ recitals and giving lectures. As a harpsichord player she frequently performs together with her early music ensemble Musica Celines. Her collaboration with variuos soloists and ensembles has resulted in programmes combining organ with Gregorian chant, dance, percussion, violin, harp, trompet, trombone and synthesizer. Besides her performing career she is working as an associate professor of organ at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway. Ines Maidres 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 contemporary repertoire, Ines Maidre has released CDs with a great variety of organ music with the focus on French (Bells in the Organ, Hommage a la Cathedrale), Estonian (the complete organ works of Peeter Süda, Anti Marguste, Rudolf Tobias, Organ concerto by Artur Kapp) and Scandinavian music (Cantus Nordicus). Jan 2013
