Toivo Tulev

Estonian, born in 1958, Tulev studied composition with Anti Marguste, Eino Tamberg, Sven-David Sandstrom and at the studio of electroacoustic music in the Musikhochschule, Cologne. He has also been a student of Gregorian chant and, in the 1980s, was a singer in the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Amongst his strongest influences has been his involvement as a performer of pre-Baroque music, but despite the primarily vocal nature of such music, his works thus far have been mostly for orchestra or smaller instrumental ensembles.