WEvald Aav was an Estonian composer born in Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire. He studied music composition there with Artur Kapp and wrote primarily vocal music to words in the Estonian language. In 1928 he composed the first national Estonian opera, Vikerlased. The opera premiered in Tallinn on 8 September 1928. He modelled his style of composition after Tchaikovsky.
WAndrey Batt is a Russian actor, rapper, songwriter, record producer and film producer. After appearances in a several American TV shows, Andrey gained popularity not only in United States and homeland Russia, but also in Brazil and whole Europe. Andrey began performing in 2009, appearing in commercials and TV-shows, and now he has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In 2016 he became the first ever musician, who performed with a halftime show at the most prestigious sports tournament in Europe – EuroLeague.
WAvi Benjamin is an Israeli composer and performer, musical director of the Israeli Gesher Theater since its foundation in 1991.
WTomas Tammemets, better known as Tommy Cash, is an Estonian rapper, singer, and conceptual artist.
WMaria Dangell is an international singer, pianist, and songwriter.
WRené Eespere is an Estonian composer. Eespere's music is noted for its spiritual dimension; he has also incorporated elements from pop music. His best-regarded works are Glorificatio (1990) and Two Jubilations (1995), both written for mixed chorus.
WOlari Elts is an Estonian conductor. He was the principal conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006. He is the founder and director of the contemporary music ensemble NYYD Ensemble.
WHenry Kõrvits, better known by his stagename Genka is an Estonian rapper, record producer and actor.
WJaan (Joann) Hargel was an Estonian conductor, music teacher, oboe and flute player.
WGetter Jaani is an Estonian singer and actress. She represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Rockefeller Street".
WKristjan Järvi is an American conductor, composer and producer born in Estonia, younger son of the conductor Neeme Järvi and brother of conductor Paavo Järvi and flautist Maarika Järvi.
WNeeme Järvi is an Estonian American conductor.
WPaavo Järvi is an Estonian conductor.
WPiret Järvis-Milder is an Estonian television host and a former singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the popular girl group Vanilla Ninja.
WTõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.
WEri Klas was an Estonian conductor. He was born in Tallinn.
WRobert Kurvitz is a Karelian-Estonian novelist, musician, and video game designer. He founded the video game development company ZA/UM in 2016, which released the critically acclaimed Disco Elysium in 2019.
WLenna Kuurmaa is an Estonian singer-songwriter and actress. She is a member of the girl group Vanilla Ninja, but after the band's hiatus since 2009, continued to work as a solo-artist. She also formed a band with the name "Lenna" who released the debut album Lenna in June 2010.
WArtur Lemba was an Estonian composer and piano teacher, and one of the most important figures in Estonian classical music. Artur and his older brother Theodor (1876-1962) were the first professional pianists in Estonia to give concerts abroad. Artur's 1905 opera Sabina was the first opera composed by an Estonian. His Symphony No. 1 in 1908 was the first symphony composed by an Estonian.
WUno Loop, is an Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator. Loop's career as a musician and singer began in the early 1950s. He has performed with various ensembles and as a popular soloist beginning in the 1960s. In his youth, he trained as a boxer, and became the 1947-48 light-middleweight two times Estonian Junior Champion. Later, he trained as a triathlete. Between the late 1950s and the early 1990s, he taught music, voice, and guitar. Loop has also worked as an actor, and appeared in several films beginning in the 1960s and in several roles on Estonian television series.
WTõnis Mägi is an Estonian singer, guitarist, composer and actor. He is one of the most influential and remarkable names in Estonian rock music of the past 40 years.
WMaria Juur, better known by her stage name Maria Minerva, is an Estonian musician and environmental activist.
WIvan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller, was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of the clarinet, the air-tight pad.
WKristi Mühling is a professional Estonian chromatic kannel player who specialises mainly on classical and contemporary music. She has premiered numerous compositions for this instrument, both as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a member of regularly performing ensembles such as Resonabilis and Una Corda. Kristi Mühling is also the founder of the chromatic kannel specialty at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and has worked there since the establishment of the specialty in 2002.
WMikk Murdvee is an Estonian-Finnish conductor and violinist living in Helsinki, Finland.
WAndres Mustonen is an Estonian conductor and violinist.
WMichael Pärt is an Estonian music producer and music editor.
WMihkel Poll is an Estonian pianist trained at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under Ivari Ilja.
WKalle Randalu is an Estonian pianist.
WRein Rannap is an Estonian composer and pianist.
WMihkel Raud is an Estonian writer, music artist, actor, and a former member of the Estonian parliament. He is best known for his book Musta pori näkku and as a former host of an Estonian talk show on TV3.
WJüri Reinvere is an Estonian composer, poet and essayist who has been living in Germany since 2005. His compositions often set to music his own poetical writings, whose symbolic and complex idiom is based on a cosmopolitan life experience. The stylistic diversity of his art is combined with acute psychological observation and latently theological insinuation.
WKatrin Siska is an Estonian celebrity, vlogger, musician and member of the Estonian pop-rock band Vanilla Ninja.
WLepo Sumera was an Estonian composer and teacher.
WTõnu Trubetsky, also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist. He is a member of the princely Trubetskoy family.
WArdo Ran Varres is an Estonian composer and actor.