Music Estonia is taking part of the President’s cultural delegation. The main event was a major exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Arvo Pärt, “Spiegel im Spiegel: Encounters Between Estonian and German Art from Lucas Cranach to Arvo Pärt and Gerhard Richter” opened at the Lipsiusbau art hall in Dresden. The cultural delegation also visited several other art exhibitions and events, including the Semperoper, the Grünes Gewölbe (one of Europe’s largest collections of jewels and court treasures), and the youth theatre tjg. theater junge generation. Additionally, the delegation visited Chemnitz, which will be the European Capital of Culture in 2025, and the local art exhibition “European Realities”, which explores European realism in the 1920s and 1930s.

The delegation also will attend a joint reception for both business and cultural representatives. The business side is coordinated by the Estonian Business and Innovation Agency. Companies represented in the business delegation included Insta Globe Engineering, Gofore Estonia, Praktikal Education, Proekspert, NOTE Pärnu, CGI Estonia, Net Group, Skeleton Technologies, Nortal, ADM Interactive, the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce, and the Estonian Business and Innovation Agency.

Members of the cultural delegation includes representatives from Eesti Kontsert, the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Art Museum of Estonia, the Estonian Literature Centre, the University of Tartu Library, the University of Tartu, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn University, the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Arvo Pärt Centre, the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, the gallery Art&Tonic, Music Estonia, the Tartu Art Museum, Theater Junge Generation, and the Ministry of Culture.

Music Estonia is represented by the Director Ave Sophia Demelemester.