Kadri Voorand in duo with Mihkel Mälgand
Official press and booking materials.
An intimate duo concert with the scale of a full musical world: voice, piano, violin, electronics and bass shaped live in the room.
The programme draws from Songs To Hold You, moving between quiet storytelling, rhythmic folk influence, improvisation and direct audience connection.
For stage plot, input list, hospitality or advance details, email team@kadrivoorand.com with the event date, venue, city and format.
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Press photos by Anu Hammer. Album cover art by Pille Kose and Kadri Voorand.
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“Kadri Voorand is a people person. … Whether playing piano, violin or thumb piano the audience were hanging on her every note and when asked to join in the audience sang as one.”
Jazzwise (UK)
“Songs To Hold You gleicht eher einer warmen Decke, die den Zuhörer umhüllt.”
Angela Ballhorn, Jazzthetik (DE)
“Ihre Musik ist unverwechselbar, sie stehen im Zenit ihres Schaffens und haben das erreicht, wonach alle suchen: Musikalische Eigenständigkeit, völlig losgelöst von äußeren Zwängen, und das auf Weltklasse-Niveau.”
Das Heubacher Fest (DE)
“This stirring together of jazz, folk and pop, with thoughtful arrangements from these distinctive musicians, takes you, for a while, off into another world.”
Alison Bentley, UK Jazz News (UK)
Kadri Voorand in duo with Mihkel Mälgand
Kadri Voorand is an award-winning Estonian vocalist, pianist and composer whose music moves between jazz, folk, improvisation and emotionally direct storytelling. With bassist Mihkel Mälgand, she creates intimate, powerful performances shaped by voice, piano, violin, live electronics and bass.
Kadri Voorand is an award-winning Estonian vocalist, pianist and composer known for emotionally charged performances and a distinctive language between jazz, folk and improvisation. As artistic leader of Estonian Voices and a compelling solo and duo performer, she moves between heartfelt ballads, rhythmic folk influence and spontaneous invention. In duo with bassist Mihkel Mälgand, Voorand builds concerts around voice, piano, violin, live electronics and bass, creating performances that feel intimate, immediate and alive to the room. Jazzwise has described audiences as "hanging on her every note."
Kadri Voorand is an Estonian singer-songwriter, vocalist, pianist and composer whose music draws on folk roots, jazz, improvisation and emotionally direct storytelling. Known for an electrifying stage presence and raw emotional range, she performs as a solo artist, in duo with Mihkel Mälgand, and as a driving force behind Estonian Voices. A multi-award-winning recording artist, she continues to shape a highly personal language within contemporary European jazz.
Kadri Voorand is an award-winning Estonian vocalist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter whose work moves between jazz, folk, improvisation and emotionally direct storytelling. Her music is closely associated with her duo with bassist Mihkel Mälgand and with Estonian Voices, the acclaimed vocal ensemble she co-founded and leads artistically.
Voorand's creative range extends from intimate duo concerts to orchestral and choral writing, including work for the Grammy-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Her recordings and performances have brought her to major stages across Europe and beyond, and her 2020 duo album with Mihkel Mälgand was released by ACT, placing her work in one of Europe's most visible jazz catalogues.
Kadri Voorand is an Estonian singer-songwriter and composer whose contemporary jazz language is shaped by coastal folk roots, vocal improvisation and emotionally direct live performance. She grew up in a fishing village on the northern Estonian coast, in a family of traditional musicians and village entertainers. Classical piano, fiddle playing and coastal folk traditions formed the first musical ground before jazz became her central language.
Voorand studied jazz voice at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and continued her education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm. Her work has since moved across solo performance, duo music with bassist Mihkel Mälgand, vocal ensemble writing and large-scale choral composition.
She is a founding member, artistic director and main composer of Estonian Voices, an acclaimed a cappella ensemble whose albums have won Estonian Music Awards. As a solo artist, she has also received major recognition in Estonia, including multiple Estonian Music Awards and Musician of the Year from Estonian Public Broadcasting.
Her 2020 duo album with Mihkel Mälgand was released by ACT, bringing her music into one of Europe's most visible jazz catalogues. Since then, Voorand has continued to release on her own terms, building concerts around voice, piano, electronics and bass that invite the audience into the performance rather than placing them outside it.