Hirvo Surva

Biography

Hirvo Surva (born on July 2, 1963 in Kohtla-Järve) is an Estonian choir director. Until 1979, Hirvo Surva studied at Kohtla-Järve Secondary School No. 1. In 1979–1983 he studied choir conducting with Silvia Mellik at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School, then at the Tallinn State Conservatory under the supervision of Ants Üleoja (1983–1990). Since 2006 he has been working as a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. Since December 2001, he has been the chief conductor of the Estonian National Opera Boys' Choir. He has also been the chief conductor of the boys' choir Kalev of the Estonian Male Song Society (1994–2009), the chief conductor of the Revalia Chamber Male Choir (since 1998) and the conductor of the Estonian National Broadcasting Mixed Choir (since 2008), and has also conducted the male choir of the Academy of Sciences. He is the chairman of the board of the Estonian Choir Conductors' Association and the Estonian Choir Association. Hirvo Surva was the conductor of the Boys' Choirs of the VII Youth Song and Dance Festival in 1993, the conductor of the boys' and men's choirs of the XXII General Song Festival in 1994, the artistic director of the VIII Youth Song and Dance Festival in 1997, the conductor of the Boys' Choirs of the VIII Youth Song Festival and the XXIV and XXV Song Festival. general manager and artistic director of the XXVI General Song Festival.