“Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours”
(Ludwig van Beethoven)

Greeting of the Artistic Director

“Love – one of the greatest mysteries and meanings of our lives, the driving force of our entire existence and the source of creativity. There is hardly a composer who has never, at some point, focused on this theme in their works. Through these great and unique compositions, we as listeners (and especially as performers) can feel what these phenomenal composers experienced and wished to express. Each work in itself is already a musical love letter – not always in the romantic sense, of course, but hidden in various ‘costumes.’ This year’s festival idea is connected with love letters that different composers have written in their time. Thus, each concert will in turn be dedicated to a specific letter and its content. Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Kerem and many others are the central creators whose soul and heart we will get to know a little better at this year’s festival.
On my part, I would like to dedicate my own musical “love letter” to my dear father, Igor Bezrodny, who would have turned 95 this year.
Among the performers, I would particularly like to highlight the unique and unrepeatable British oboist Nicholas Daniel, who will also bring us lesser-known works, such as Arnold Bax’s Oboe Quintet.

I wish you beautiful and heartfelt musical moments.”
(Anna-Liisa Bezrodny)

About the festival

The Tallinn Chamber Music Festival is a unique musical event that in recent years has risen to stand on equal footing with Europe’s international chamber music festivals. Adding to its value is the fact that the festival, already 21 years old, takes place in historically unique venues, including Tallinn Town Hall.

The XXI Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, with the working title “Love Letters,” will be held from 23–30 August 2025 and will present eight chamber concerts. For the third year, the festival’s artistic director is the internationally acclaimed Estonian violinist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, whose idea is to link the festival’s concerts to a single theme – thereby creating an artistic whole.

The festival’s main theme, “Love Letters,” is based on the love letters of various composers – among them Beethoven, Händel/Halvorsen, Dvořák, Albéniz, Wagner, Kerem, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel, Mozart, Schumann, Piazzolla, Bax, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Hubarenko, Schubert, and Goetz – and is further divided into concerts with subtitles such as: “Secrets of the Soul,” “Love and Its Many Faces,” “Beethoven and Josephine, Mozart and Constanze,” “Endless Love,” “Remembering a Great Artist,” “Music – Language of Love,” and “Testament of Love.”

The diverse themed concerts offer audiences – including new listeners with no prior experience of chamber music – an engaging and inclusive experience, expanding their horizons and receptivity to classical music. Top interpreters will perform masterpieces of the world’s musical literature with a specific focus, alongside Estonian music.

The resident composer of the 2025 festival is Mihkel Kerem, whose magical and soulful style of creation will be represented by a new commissioned work – a violin sonata dedicated to Anna-Liisa Bezrodny. In this sonata, the composer wishes to portray the feeling of emptiness after the loss of a human relationship, drawing inspiration from the festival’s theme, “Love Letters.