The Veronika Portsmuth Choir Academy was created to open up and develop new perspectives in choral music culture, bringing to life special and unique major musical projects and offering self-improvement in an unconventional form with a novel approach for both choir singers and conductors.
About Us
Artistic Director and Conductor
Veronika Portsmuth
Veronika Veronika Portsmuth (1980) has completed her doctoral studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the supervision of Prof. T.Kaljuste/ K.Kotta/ A.Vurma and has participated in several international master classes (Filippo Maria Bressan, Eri Klas, Frieder Bernius, etc.).
Today she is continuing her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in the field of innovative choral conducting with Jim Daus Hjernøe. He has also worked with several renowned ensembles, including the Estonian Concert Choir and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, has been a conducting lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Tallinn Music High School, a singer at the Estonian Philharmonic, and has given lectures and trainings as a mentor to the Choir Association.
Portsmuth’s interest in chamber operas and Nordic music has found expression in the Nordic choral music concert series and in performances of Helena Tulve and Sunleif Rasmussen’s chamber operas in Tallinn.
In addition, she has also released 2 solo albums with arrangements of Lembit Veevo’s choral music and her own music, which is inspired by the Faroe Islands.
She has been a conductor at several song festivals, and was the artistic director of the 2011 youth song festival Maa ja ilm. Portsmuth has created several choirs and currently conducts the concert choir, chamber choir, and pop choir of the choir academy of her name.
Veronika Portsmuth has been the chairwoman of the board of the Estonian Mixed Choirs Association since 2014.
International Choir Competitions
Slovakia Cantat 2017
Bratislava, Slovakia
2017
Mixed choir category
Silver Diploma
Malta International Choir Festival 2015
Floriana, Malta
2015
Secular music category
Winner
Secular music category
3rd place
Grand Prix competition
2nd place
World Choir Games 2014
Riga, Latvia
2014
Mixed choir category
Silver Medal
3rd Asian Choir Games
Manado, Indonesia
2013
Mixed chamber choir category
Golden Diploma, Level 1
Folklore category
Silver Diploma, Level VII
Franz Schubert Chorwettbewerb
Austria, Vienna
2012
Mixed chamber choir category
Golden Diploma
Sacred music category
Silver Diploma
1st Vietnam International Choir Festival
Hoi An, Vietnam
2011
Sacred music category
Golden Diploma, Level II
6th World Choir Games
Hoi An, Vietnam
2011
Sacred music category
Golden Diploma
Independent choir category
Golden Diploma Level II
Singing Competitions in Estonia
XX Estonian Mixed Choir Singing Competition
Tallinn, Estonia
2010
B-category
1st and 2nd place, best performer of the compulsory song
Mixed choir category
Silver Diploma
XIX Estonian Mixed Choir Singing Competition
Tallinn, Estonia
2013
B-category
2nd place
Mixed choir category
Silver Diploma
XVIII Estonian Mixed Choir Singing Competition
Tallinn, Estonia
2011
B-category
4th place
TV show Song Battle
Tallinn, Estonia
2009
General classification
Finalist
Contacts
Kooriakadeemia OÜ
Reg. kood 17161983
Padu 27A
11625 Tallinn, Eesti
LHV EE297700771011853915