Kalam, Tonu, Papers

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PROVENANCE

Collection transferred to the IHRC from the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A. (EAU) in 2003-2005. It was processed as part of a collaborative project between the Estonian Archives in the USA (Lakewood, New Jersey), the National Archives of Estonia (NAE), and the IHRC in March 2011. Gerli Raadik and Peeter Väljas of the National Archives in Tallinn, Estonia, worked with IHRC staff on the project.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Tõnu Kalam was born on 12.02.1948 in Bad Rehburg, Germany, he lives in USA since 1950. Educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1969), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1971) and the Curtis Institute of Music (Certificate, 1973). He is trained to be a conductor, pianist and a composer. He was a prizewinner in the first Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor's Competition and was also a finalist in the prestigious Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductors Program. (Professor of Music) serves as Music Director and Conductor of the University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and has taught instrumental conducting at UNC since 1988. He was Music Director of the Illinois Opera Theatre at the University of Illinois, and he has also filled short-term appointments as Visiting Associate Professor and director of the orchestra programs at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He is also Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas, founder and Music Director of the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra, and has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and in Europe - North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra; has served as Music Director of the New England Chamber Orchestra in Boston. In 1984 Mr. Kalam began a long-term association with the renowned Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine, where he spent thirteen years in various administrative and musical capacities, as Executive Director, Summer Program Director, Artist-Faculty pianist and chamber music coach. In 1994 Mr. Kalam made his European debut conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn He returned to Europe in 1997 to guest conduct Finland's Oulu Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician, and in 2005-2006 acted as President of the Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild. He is married since 1990 to Annalee Faith Wolf.

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

The Kalam, Tonu collection is available for public research.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

The Kalam, Tonu collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.

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CITE AS

The Kalam, Tonu Papers, Estonian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

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