Born in Estonia, Kristjan Järvi emigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New York City. Kristjan comes from a family of conductors. His father Neeme and his elder brother Paavo are both great ones in their field. In 2015 Kristjan relocated his center of life from the USA back to Tallinn, Estonia.

As a conductor, Järvi directs the great classics from Wagner to Radiohead and is at home on the big international stages. He defies musical orthodoxy and pursues his pioneering ideas and concepts with four bands and orchestras: he is Music Director of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Together with Gene Pritsker he co-founded the New York-based classical-hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble. Järvi is Founding Conductor and Music Director of the Baltic Sea Philharmonic and leader of the Sunbeam Productions’ in-house band Nordic Pulse. Kristjan Järvi collaborates internationally with outstanding and creative personalities from the art, music and film scene. For example, he has composed individual pieces of music for Tom Tykwer’s Babylon Berlin and has recorded the music for the series partly with the Absolute Ensemble and the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra.

As a recording artist Järvi has more than 60 albums to his credit, from Hollywood soundtracks such as Cloud Atlas, Sense 8(both productions of the Wachowski sisters), A Hologram for the King (Tom Tykwer) and award-winning albums on Sony Classical and Chandos, to his eponymous series: the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project. Launched in 2014, the series features projects across all of Järvi’s ensembles.

In 2016 Kristjan Järvi became an official member of the Estonian Olympic Committee, the first time this position was not filled by a sportsperson or government official.

An entrepreneur by nature and a passionate producer, Kristjan Järvi runs his own production company Sunbeam Productions, which bundles all his activities. Sunbeam Productions is the producer of the latest concert shows Waterworks (2017/2018), Absolute Club featuring Francesco Tristano Schlimé and Nordic Pulse (2018). 
Information for March 2019