The 12th International Music Festival Classical Hugs

The 12th International Music Festival Classical Hugs promotes cultural and musical exchange between Estonia, Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The festival features an outstanding line-up of world-renowned soloists, including pianists Olga Kern, Michael Bulychev-Oxer, Daniil Pollack, Dmitri Bashkirov, Pavel Nersessian, Dmitri Alexeev, Piotr Paleczny, Grigori Gruzman and John O'Conor; violinists Shlomo Mintz, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Vernikov, Boris Garlitsky, Felix Andrievsky, Michael Vaiman, Cho-Liang Lin, Boris Vayner and Miriam Davis; violists Hartmut Rohde, Wilfried Strehle, Paul Neubauer, Alexander Zemtsov and Isabel Villanueva; as well as cellists Colin Carr, Raphael Wallfisch and Maria Kliegel.

The 2026 festival brings together artists representing more than 50 countries across the globe, including Estonia, the United States, Latvia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Austria, England, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Serbia, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, China, New Zealand, Indonesia and Australia.