Kaie Tanner

Estonia

Kaie Tanner (b 1975) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with BA in choral conducting and MA in cultural management. She is working as general secretary of the Estonian Choral Association, and conducts the preparatory-, young children’s-, children’s- and girls’ choirs of the Estonian Radio. Kaie is a board member of the Estonian Choral Association and International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), and president of Choral Festival Network. Since 2001 she has organised several Estonian and international choral festivals, competitions and singing weeks both in Estonia and abroad. Kaie Tanner has conducted children’s choirs in several Estonian Song Celebrations, Church Song Festivals and Estonian Mixed Choirs Festivals, conducted workshops and made presentations at numerous Estonian and international festivals and conferences, published articles in Estonian and international magazines and newspapers, worked in juries of international choir festivals (Bejing, Neerpelt, Hong Kong, Kaunas, Jurmala) etc.