{"id":154891,"date":"2026-01-20T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=154891"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:12:47","slug":"mustonenfest-starts-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/mustonenfest-starts-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"MustonenFest Starts This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Wherever you are this week in Estonia, there will be a concert near you happening as part of the MustonenFest concert series. For 12 nights in P\u00e4rnu, Laulasmaa, Tallinn, Tartu, or Narva, you can enjoy classical music performances by artists from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Israel, and France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The MustonenFest concert series isn\u2019t only classical music of course. It includes a wide range of musical traditions and styles. Choral, classical, baroque\u2014it\u2019s all there. This entire festival is for people who have been lifelong fans of great music, and for newcomers eager to explore these genres in a live setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">MustonenFest is named for its founder, <b>Andres Mustonen<\/b>. Mustonen himself often conducts and performs in these concerts. Since 1989, 37 years ago, this concert series has been a staple of Estonian musical culture. But it hasn\u2019t always been called \u201cMustonenFest\u201d. It was originally called \u201c<span class=\"s1\">Hortus Musicuse V\u00e4ravatorni barokkmuusika p\u00e4evad\u201d, or in English \u201cThe Gate Tower Baroque Music Days of Hortus Musicus\u201d, an ensemble also formed by Mustonen in 1972. The name was shortened in 2011 for marketing purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Concerts begin in P\u00e4rnu on 22 January. The next night, 23 January, will be at the Arvo P\u00e4rt Centre in Laulasmaa, 24\u201325 January in Tallinn, 26 January in Tartu, and the rest of the concerts will also be in Tallinn, except 31 January, in Narva. More information about individual concerts is available in Estonian <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mustonenfest.ee\/kontserdid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and tickets are available <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.piletilevi.ee\/en\/tickets\/FHGO62HWYW\/mustonenfest-2026-avakontsert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wherever you are this week in Estonia, there will be a concert near you happening as part of the &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":122472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[13204,13233,13270,14140,16109,16111,16614,21559,24221,25024],"class_list":["post-154891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-parnu-2","tag-concert-2","tag-tartu-2","tag-narva-2","tag-arvo-part-2","tag-laulasmaa-2","tag-classical-music","tag-events-in-tallinn","tag-mustonenfest","tag-baroque"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154892,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154891\/revisions\/154892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}