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Tiit Kiik was born in 1950 in Kuressaare (Saaremaa island, Estonia). In 1976, he graduated from the Academy of Music in Tallinn as a concert organist, a student of prof. Hugo Lepnurm. He has later participated in many master courses. As a student, T. Kiik already gave concerts and took part in performing of oratorios together with the symphony orchestra and choirs conducted by Neeme Järvi. As a soloist or in ensemble with other instrumentalists or singers, he has later played lots of organs in Europe and America, but his main work is since 1985 connected with two of them - the organs in the St. Nicholas' Church and Estonian Concert Hall. He often fills the Half an Hour with Organ Music in the St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn - on Saturdays and Sundays at 4 p.m. T. Kiik gives many concerts all over Estonia - there are many interesting German and Estonian organs in our parish churches. Together with Toomas Mäeväli a. o., he has helped to renovate some of them. T. Kiik's interest and deep knowledge mainly lay in old music and J. S. Bach, but on several CDs he also interprets creations by contemporary composers. Performing German, French, Italian, Belgian, Dutch, Scandinavian, English, American and Estonian music (R. Tobias, P. Süda, E. Arro, H. Lepnurm, J. Hiob, E. Mägi, A. Marguste, E. Kivinurm, A. Pärt), he has often been the first one to include the works in his concerts and recordings. Some pieces are dedicated to him. |
