Heldur Harry Põlda

(tenor)

 

EDUCATION AND WORK

Heldur Harry Põlda finished Tallinn Music Highschool in 2015. He has been a long-time soloist of the Estonian National Opera Boys Choir. He graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is a grantee of the Estonian National Opera since 2019. Since 2020, he is also a conductor of the Tallinn Technical University male choir.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In 2008, Põlda won the Estonian Culture Endowment Award for the role of Miles in Britten’s opera “The Turn of the Screw”. In 2010, he won the Estonian Choral Association’s Cooperation Award and in 2013 the Estonian National Culture Foundation Georg Ots Scholarship.

 

REPERTOIRE

Tony (Bernstein’s “West Side Story”)

Tybalt (Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet”)

Bastien (Mozart’s “Bastien und Bastienne”)

Miles (Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw”)

Amor (Gluck’s “Orfeus ed Euridice”)

Arno (Marguste’s mono-opera “Monologues”)

Nuki (Ehala/Raadik/Vinter/Raudmäe’s “Pipi!Nuki!Puhh!”)

Erik (Yeston’s “Phantom”)

 

Concert repertoire:

Auerbach’s “Russian Requiem” world premiere in Germany

Paunufnik’s “Westminster’s Mass”

Fauré’s Requiem

Ustvolskaya’s Symphony No. 1

Kruusimäe’s “Discovering the World” XXV Estonian Song Festival mixed choirs’ soloist

Pärt’s “Vater Unser” in Vatican for Pope Benedictus XVI

 

Conducting:

Children’s gala at the festival “From Estoonlased to Saarlased”

Children’s gala at Saaremaa Opera Days 2014

Conductor of children’s’ chorus and string orchestra at 50th Saaremaa Song Festival

Mixed Choirs’ conductor at Suure-Jaani clerical song festival